Note 81 — Chapter III · Concluding the Route to the Great Salt Lake City.
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The following estimate of outfit was given to me by a Mormon elder, who has frequently traveled over the Utah route. He was accompanied by his wife, and family, and help—six persons in total; and having money to spare, he invested it in a speculation which could hardly fail at least to quadruple his outlay at the end of the march: the stove, for instance, bought at $28, would sell for $80 to $120. The experienced emigrant, it may be observed, carries with him a little of every thing that may or might be wanted, such as provisions, clothing, furniture, drugs, lint, stationery, spices, ammunition, and so forth; above all things, he looks to his weapons as likely to be, at a pinch, his best friends:
2 yokes oxen at $180 to $200 00
1 cow (milch) 25 00
1 wagon 87 30
1 double cover 8 50
2 ox yokes 8 00
1 ox chain 1 50
1 tar-bucket 1 00
1 large tent ($9 for smaller sizes) 15 00
Camp equipment, axes, spades, shovels, triangles for fires, etc. 10 00
600 lbs. flour 25 50
100 lbs. ham and bacon 14 00
150 lbs. crackers (sea biscuits) 13 13
100 lbs. sugar 9 50
25 lbs. crystallized ditto 3 00
24 lbs. raisins 4 00
20 lbs. currants 3 00
25 lbs. rice 2 25
1 bushel dried apples 6 00
1 bushel dried peaches 4 30
1 bushel beans 2 00
1 stove 28 00
Grand total $490 98