People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1896 — Cost of Goods in Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Goods in Mexico.

The best Mexican shoes, made to measure, cost but $4, and wear well. Cotton hose are more expensive than in the United States but German or French woolen hose cost less than with us. The best knit cotton underware, union suits, cost $2, Muslin of the best quality, imported, cost 25 cents a yard, while native woven inuslin costs 12 cents, and the coarse manta, of which the women of the peon class make theirJdresses, costs much less than that. Imported wool chalHes, French, cost 62 cents a yard, and other wool dress goods range in price from SI to 41.50. Silk^are very expensive. I ’ ■ Some people are not aware that the gold miner can take his gold bullion to the government mints and have it coined into money free of charge, but it is true, and the silver miner was treated in the same wav previously to 1873. The silver miner now wants only his old rights equally with the gold miner.