Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — IN GOOD OLD PIONEER DAYS [ARTICLE]

IN GOOD OLD PIONEER DAYS

When Potatoes Were 18c a Bushel and Hogs $2 Apiece. Shelbyville, Dec. 9. —In this day of the high cost of living, some people wonder how the pioneers managed to live. An Inventory of the estate of Richard Pile, a Shelby county pioneer, filed Dec. 4, 1826, show the following Interesting facts as to iprlces at that time: One rifle, $8; 11 hogs, different sizes, sl4; one sorrel horse, $4 0; one bay mare, $27.50; two heifers and steer, $10; one white cow, $7; one steer and two calves, $7; 400 bushels of corn, SSO; one sheep, $2; 15 bushels of potatoes at $2.65, about 18 cents a bushel; six bushels of salt, $4.50; five hogs and a sow, at $2 each; gne joke of oxen at S2B; 260 bushels of corn at 12% cents a bushel, and four shoats for sl.