Butter, per pound $ 1.25 Chickens, per dozen 36.00 Eggs, per dozen 2.00 Ham, per pound .75 Lard, per pound .40 to .50 Salt, per pound .35 to .40 Side bacon, per pound .60 to .70 Tea, per pound $ 1.50 to 2.00 Flour, per 100 lbs $33.00 to 36.00 Onions, per pound .25 to .30 Rice, per pound .50 Sugar, per pound .70 to .75 Candles, per pound 1.00 Nails, cut, per pound .40 to .50 Clothing. Women’s hip boots $30.00 Women’s calf boots 6.00 Men’s calf boots 12.00 Woolen drawers, per pair $1.50 to 2.00 Red drawers, per pair $2.50 to 3.50 Men’s quilted brogan 3.50 Gum boots, long legs 12.00 Gum boots, short legs 11.00 Men’s cavalry boots $12.00 to 15.00 Men’s boots, long gr. 10.00 Cal. best blankets 16.00 Salem blankets $13.00 to 15.00 Oregon socks, per doz. 9.00 Best Cal. wool shirts $3.00 to 4.00 Buck gloves, per doz. $18.00 to 30.00 Red undershirts, per doz. $30.00 to 36.00 Wines and Liquors. Best Champagnes, per doz. $48.00 Cal. Wine, per case 24.00 Claret Wine, per case 24.00 Sherry, per gal., in wood 7.00 Port, per gal., in wood 7.00 Baker’s Bitters, per case $24.00 to 30.00 Goddard Brandy, per gal. 10.00 Hermitage Whiskey, per gal. 7.00 Kerosene Oil, per gal. $8.00 to 9.00 (The above prices were usually paid in gold dust at the rate of $16.00 to the ounce, when the real value of gold dust was only $14.50 to $15.00 per ounce.) The above list has been considerably shortened in reproducing it. CHAPTER II. SOME NATURAL HISTORY. Nature is the greatest of all historians. She is alike the most accurate and interesting. Her pen is the impress of time, and in characters more durable than the most lasting creations of man, she has written the story of the ages as they rolled slowly by. Impartial, unprejudiced, and in this respect omniscient, she has patiently and unerringly recorded a history more ancient than that of primeval man, more valuable than that of the proudest monarchy. And so, having in the previous chapter traced Bannock county from an unlocated spot in an unexplored desert to a settled and civilized community of fixed limits, let us now examine the scene of our story more closely, and try to read something of what Nature has written there.