Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — PRICE OF FOOD IS HIGH. [ARTICLE]

PRICE OF FOOD IS HIGH.

Flour, Sugar and Salt Selling for $3 a Pound in Idaho. Flour, sugar a-nd salt are selling at >3 a pound in the newly discovered Idaho gold fields of Thunder mountain. There are now between 800 and 1,000 men in the camp and others are arriving at the rate of fifty per day. Sixty miles of the journey must be made on snow shoes, though snow is from three to fourteen feet deep. Travel is all made at night, only when the snow freezes, as during the daytime there is danger sf snowslides. The first horse pack to get tn since last fall just reached camp the other day. Seven horses were brought in on snow shoes and pulled rawhides each containlug about 250 pounds of provisions. Continued reports of the richness of the country are in circulation. Men will not work at the Dewey mill at $4 per day, preferring to go prospecting in three feet of snow.