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CHAPTER XIII - TRADE AND COMMERCE (CONT'D)SOME MARKET PRICES.
Market prices at Council Bluffs, Iowa, November 16, 1861, were as follows: Wheat, 40 and 45 cents per bushel; corn, 15 and 20 cents; oats, 25 cents; beef, $2.50 and $3 per hundred weight; pork, $3 and $3.50; potatoes, 20 cents per bushel; beans, $1 and $1.25 per bushel; onions, 50 cents per bushel; candles (winter mould), tallow, 15 and 18 cents; wood, per cord, cottonwood, $2 to $2.50; oak, $3 to $3.50.
HARLAN MARKETS.
February 6, 1873: Wheat, per bushel, 95 cents to $1.08; corn, in the ear, 15 cents; oats, 12 1/2 to 16 cents; potatoes, 25 cents; white beans, $1.00; flour, per hundred weight, $3.50; buckwheat, per hundred weight, $3.50; bran, 40 cents; corn meal, $1; butter, per pound, 12 1/2 to 18 cents; cheese, 25 cents, hams, 12 1/2 cents; shoulders, 10 cents; bacon, 8 cents; lard, 7 cents; pickled pork, 8 cents; salt, per barrel, $3.75; hides, green, 6 cents; hides, dry flint, 12 cents; eggs, per dozen, 6 cents; chickens, $2 to $2.25.
December 10, 1874: Wheat, 57 cents; ear corn, 45 cents; oats, 35 cents; potatoes, 35 and 50 cents; butter, 25 cents; eggs, 25 cents; granulated sugar, seven pounds for $1; brown sugar, nine pounds for $1; kerosene, 30 cents, a gallon; apples, $4.50 per barrel; onions, $1 per bushel; chickens dressed, 6 and 7 cents per pound; turkeys, dressed, 9 cents per pound. December 30, 1875: Wheat, 40 to 65 cents; corn, 20 cents; oats, 20 cents; barley, 35-75 cents; butter, good, 15 to 25 cents; eggs, 15 cents; hogs, $6. By comparison, it is interesting to note Avoca prices: Wheat, 55 to 75 cents; corn, 20 cents; oats, 20 cents; barley (new), 30 to 45 cents; eggs, 15 cents; butter, 20 cents; hogs, $6.50; cattle, $2.50 to $4; potatoes, 15 to 20 cents. January 26, 1876: Wheat, 45 and 65 cents; ear corn, 15 and 20 cents; oats, 15 and 20 cents; potatoes, 15 and 20 cents; butter, 6 and 12 1/2 cents; eggs, 12 1/2 cents per dozen; onions, 50 cents per bushel; hickory wood, $4 a cord; oak wood, $3 a cord; maple wood, $3 a cord; elm and bass wood (linn), $2.75 a cord. September, 19, 1878: Wheat, 70 cents; potatoes, 25 cents; oats, 13 cents; shelled corn, 15 cents; butter, 6 cents; lard, 5 cents; eggs, per dozen, 4 cents; wood, per cord, $4.50; hay, $2.50. September 1, 1880: Hogs, $4 to $4.15; barley, 35 to 50 cents; wheat, 65 cents; corn, 22 cents; oats, 18 cents; rye, 50 cents. Remembering that Kanesville, or Council Bluffs, furnished the first very early markets for the pioneers of Shelby county, it is worth while to notice market prices at Council Bluffs in 1858, as given by the Nonpareil: Wheat, 75 cents; corn, 40 to 50 cents; oats, 50 cents; buckwheat, $1 per bushel; beef, 7 to 10 cents per pound; pork, 7 1/2 to 12 1/2 cents per pound; butter, 15 to 20 cents; potatoes, 40 to 50 cents; onion, $3.50; parsnips, 50 cents per bushel; beets, 75 cents; turnips, 75 cents; hay, $3 to $4; fire wood, cottonwood, $3.50 to $4; oak, $4 to $4.50; lumber, cottonwood, $25 to $35 per million; clear pine, $75 per million. At the same point, under date of March 28, 1863, according to the same authority, the markets were as follows: Wheat, 50 cents; corn, 15 to 20 cents; oats, 25 cents; potatoes, 40 cents; butter, 15 to 20 cents; eggs, 12 cents a dozen; sugar, 16 to 25 cents per pound; coffee, 36 to 40 cents; sorghum, 40 to 50 cents per gallon; pork, $2 to $2.50 per hundred weight; beef, 3 to 10 cents per pound; onions, $1 per bushel; whiskey, 75 cents to $1.25 per gallon; lumber, cottonwood, $12 to $15; pine, $65; wood, $2 to $2.50; tallow candles, 18 cents per pound. On March 13, 1873, the agricultural products brought the following prices at Harlan: Wheat, per bushel, 95 to $1; corn, in the ear, 15 cents; oats, 12 1/2 to 15 cents; potatoes, 25 cents. At Harlan on November 5, 1874, about five years before Harlan had a railroad, the following prices for commodities were offered: Wheat, 55 cents; corn, in the ear, 75 pounds for 35 cents; oats, 35 cents; potatoes, 35 to 50 cents; butter, 23 cents; eggs, 18 cents. On January 18, 1877, the Harlan markets were as follows: Wheat, 90 to 98 cents; flour, per hundred, $2.75 to $4; corn, in ear, 18 to 20 cents; oats, 20 cents; butter, 16 cents; eggs, 15 cents. The Harlan markets on March 6, 1879, were as follows: Flour, per hundred, $2.30; wheat, per bushel, 45 to 68 cents; potatoes, per bushel, 20 to 30 cents; oats, per bushel, 12 1/2 cents; corn, shelled, 19 cents; butter, per pound, 12 1/2 cents; lard, per pound, 5 cents; hay, per ton, $3; wood, per cord, $4.50; eggs, per dozen, 8 cents; Des Moines coal, $4.50; Oskaloosa coal, $4.50; coal, hard, per ton, $11.50. The Harlan markets of February 20, 1879, were as follows (quotations furnished by T. D. Pratt): Hogs, $6 to $6.30 per hundred weight; cattle $5 to $6 per hundred weight. Grain market (Quotations furnished by J. S. Murray & Company): Wheat, No. 2, 80 to 85 cents; No. 3, 65 to 70 cents; rejected, 65 to 70 cents; corn, 35 to 40 cents; oats, 25 cents; barley, 30 cents; rye, 45 cents; flaxseed, 90 cents; potatoes, 40 cents; butter, 20 cents; eggs, 20 cents; apples, $1.20; onions, 55 cents; sweet potatoes, $2. The Harlan grain markets on November 27, 1879, were as follows: Wheat, from 95 to 99 cents per bushel; corn, 23 cents, and oats, 20 cents. On September 1, 1880, the products below named were being bought in Harlan for the prices stated: Hogs, $4 to $4.25 per hundred weight; barley, 35 to 55 cents; wheat, 71 cents; corn, 23 1/2 cents; oats, 18 cents. On June 9, 1881, prices at Harlan were as follows: Hogs, $4.50 to $5; cattle, $4 to $4.75. Grain market (Quotations for grain furnished by J. S. Murray & Company): Wheat, No. 2, 86 cents; corn, 15 to 25 cents; oats, 27 cents; barley, 75 cents; rye, 75 cents; flaxseed, 90 cents. The Harlan markets of November 17, 1881, were as follows (Quotations furnished by T. D. Pratt): Hogs, $4.50 to $4.75 per hundred weight; cattle, $3 to $4 per hundred weight. (Quotations for grain furnished by J. S. Murray & Company): Wheat, No. 2, $1 per bushel; corn, old, No. 2, 40 cents; new, 35 cents; oats, 28 cents; rye, 80 cents; flaxseed, $1.05.
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