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Items furnished to the Pioneer American emigrants by the Hudson's Bay Co. at Fort Nisqually in 1845-46
from Nov. 7, 1845 to Dec. 31, 1846 |
Item |
Price |
Today's Equivalent Price |
| Axes |
1.25 each |
$22.30 |
| Knives, drawing |
0.90 each |
16.06 |
| Oats, bushel |
0.50 per bushel |
8.92 |
| Pease (peas) |
0.90 per bushel |
16.06 |
| Potatoes |
0.25 per bushel |
4.46 |
| Wheat |
0.80 per bushel |
14.27 |
| Buckwheat |
0.60 per bushel |
10.71 |
| Wool |
0.16 per pound |
2.85 |
Bullock
(a young bull) |
18.00 each |
321.15 |
| Mares |
13.50 each |
240.87 |
| Salted pork |
0.10 per pound |
1.78 |
Quinine Powders
(medicine) |
0.50 per pound |
8.92 |
| Coffee |
0.25 per pound |
4.46 |
| Molasses |
0.55 per gallon |
9.81 |
| Sugar, brown |
0.12 per pound |
2.23 |
| Salt |
0.70 per bushel |
12.49 |
| Tea |
0.70 per bushel |
12.49 |
Salts, Epsom
(medicine) |
0.16 per pound |
2.85 |
| Nails |
0.04 per pound |
0.70 |
| Gunpowder |
0.30 per pound |
5.35 |
| Ammunition lead |
0.01 per pound |
0.18 |
| Tobacco, twists and leaves |
0.40 per pound |
7.14 |
| Thread |
1.00 per pound |
17.84 |
| Kettles |
1.80 each |
32.12 |
| Shoes |
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| Salted beef |
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| Gimlet (a tool for boring holes) |
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| Cotton, blue |
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| Shirts, cotton |
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| Twine |
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| Blanket |
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| Scythes (a tool used for harvesting grain) |
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| Cotton, gray |
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