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Gold rush days
Eggs $1 each, potatoes 50 cents
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Shoppers who think prices
have skyrocketed during the past year should have seen
merchants’ signs more than a century ago in California
Gold Rush country.
“Eggs, $1 each,” was one price greeting prospectors
near Coloma, Calif., where gold was discovered near
Sutter’s Mill in the American River on Jan. 24,1848.
Before that, eggs were often given away.
Smart California businessmen, sensing a possible gold
rush as the news of the discovery filtered east, began
buying up everything in sight that a prospector might
need.
Within a year, the rush was on, and the biggest bonanza
was in merchandising.
In remote camps along the Sierra, eggs went as high as
$3 each and potatoes sold for 50 cents apiece.
“Most people forgot what an egg looked like,” wrote one
historian.
In San Francisco, which grew almost overnight from a
tiny settlement to a bustling city, lots rose from sl2 each
to >IO,OOO each. One builder used bricks costing 31 each.
Compared to 1975 prices, some items in San Francisco
weren’t too extravagant. For instance, a haircut and
shave cost $1.50, and fresh beef went for 50 cents a pound.
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Interest on borrowed money ranged from 8 to id per cent.
Farther north at the El Dorado Hotel in Hangtown, now
Placerville, a menu showed grizzly bear roast for $1;
jackrabbit whole, 31.50; two codfish balls for 75 cents and
baked beans, 31.
“Gold scales at the end of the bar,” a sign on the lunch
counter read.
Miners often had gold, but in remote areas were short of
everything else. According to the Mercantile Trust Co., of
California, there were certain diggins where prospectors
paid 3800 for a barrel of flour and picks, shovels and gold
pans cost 3100 each.
A gallon of rot-gut whisky went as high as 3100, and
those who overdrank and needed medication paid 31
apiece for liver pills.
Despite high prices, wages were low and the lure for
sudden wealth that saw 100,000 miners hunting gold in the
peak year of 1852 depleted the available goods rapidly.
A meal in San Francisco at the time cost 35, but laborers
were paid only 31 an hour. Skilled mechanics got 32 to 320
a day, but had to pay sl2 to have their clothes laundered.
And all the gold that came out of the state in the century
following the ore’s discovery totaled about 32 billion, less
than the value of the agricultural output of California in
1974.
Henry Kissinger, shah
talk about money, oil
LONDON (UPI) — Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger flew
to Zurich today for a luncheon
talk about oil and money with
the shah of Iran.
Kissinger started his last full
day in Europe at breakfast with
the new leader of the British
Conservative party, Margaret
Thatcher.
Heidi keeps up busy schedule
HONOLULU (UPI) - Heidi
Biggs, 14, bought a bright blue
bikini, then splashed in the
waves off Waikiki Beach.
Sen. Bentsen
joins the race
HOUSTON (UPI) - Sen.
Lloyd M. Bentsen enters the
race to become the Democratic
party’s 1976 presidential no
minee with a number of
handicaps.
He made only a passing
reference to these handicaps
when he announced his can
didacy Monday saying “I
wouldn’t have entered the race
unless I thought I could win.”
His first and most important
handicap is his name value —
how easily his name is
recognized by the party’s rank
and-file. It’s definitely below
that of Sen. Henry M. Jackson,
the Washington Democrat con
sidered the current front-runner
for the Democratic nomination.
Second is Bentsen’s geograph
ical home base. Although a bill
is being considered in the
Texas House establishing a pro-
Bentsen presidential preference
primary that could give the
state’s junior senator all the
state’s delegates at next year’s
convention, Bentsen could find
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He was scheduled to cap the
day with a dinner meeting in
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“I’m really having a good
time,” beamed Heidi. She is
dying of cancer, but has not
been told. Doctors estimate she
it difficult to get widespread
support outside of Texas.
Southern and southwestern
delegates could divide their
support among such announced
candidates as Jimmy Carter,
the former governor of Geor
gia; Fred Harris, the former
senator from neighboring Ok
lahoma; and Rep. Morris K.
Udall of Arizona, along with as
yet the unannounced candidates
—George Wallace of Alabama
and Terry Sanford of North
Carolina. Then there are the
favorite son candidates and a
likely one to emerge in itr/b is
from Bentsen’s neighboring
state —Sen. Dale Bumpers of
Arkansas.
The third problem is Bent
sen’s ideology. He professes to
be a moderate but so does
Jackson and Carter. The three
are not far apart on their ideas
of the issues in the race —most
of them centering on criticisms
of the Republican administra
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enjoyed in Columbia. (UPI)
James Callaghan praised one
another’s efforts toward peace
in the Middle East and detente
with the Soviet Union.
Kissinger said the Callagh
an’s trip to Moscow with
British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson last week was “ex
tremely successful in reducing
tension.”
Callaghan said as a result of
has about a month to live.
Heidi, fulfilling a dream
vacation, kept up with a busy
schedule Monday which includ
ed a horseback ride, a shopping
spree and sunning at the beach.
Heidi and her mother, Lucille
Biggs, of Belleville, 111., went
browsing at Ala Moana shop
ping center where scores of
people recognized them.
Heidi’s dream vacation was
made possible by contributions
from persons around the world
who learned of her plight and
contributed to a fund estab
lished by a Canadian business
man.
The manager of a large
department store recc|gnized
Heidi, ordered all his employes
to give her a discount, and then
invited the Biggs to breakfast.
Heidi bought a blue bikini
and a striped robe to go with it.,
She and her mother then were
driven to a rural stable where
Heidi rode a palomino for the
second day in a row.
Later, Heidi got her long
awaited opportunity to dip in
the surf off Waikiki, staying in
shallow water. She later basked
in the sun on the sandy beach
and chatted with passing
tourists.
“This is just wonderful, how
nice people are.” said Mrs.
Biggs. She pointed to the
crowded beach and added, “If
it hadn’t been for people like
this all over the world, we
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Kissinger’s Middle East swing,
“there is a good prospect for
another step to be taken”
toward Arab-Israeli peace.
Kissinger said he hoped the
Soviet Union would understand
that progress in his step-by-step
Middle East diplomatic cam
paign would be in everyone’s
interest, and would not be
incompatible with the Soviet
desire for a final settlement.
could never have come here."
Monday evening, the Biggs
were treated to a home-cooked
dinner by a local family,
although Heidi can only eat
chicken noodle soup.
The Biggs will be joined
Wednesday by Heidi’s stepfa
ther, Randy Hillman of Bel
leville.
“I’m so excited I can’t stand
it,” Heidi said.
ONLY INDIAN
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
(UPI) — Stand Watie, the only
Indian to serve as a Confeder
ate Army general in the Civil
War was the last officer of his
rank to surrender at the end of
the war. He is buried near
Noel, in southwest Missouri.
No Savages There
The Tasaday tribe living
deep in the jungle of the
Philippine island of Min
danao exist in much the same
way as man’s Stone Age an
cestors. They live together
without conflicts or rivalries
and there is no word in their
vocabulary for murder or
war.
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Police chief
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SURF CITY, N.C. (UPI) —
The police chief of this small
coastal city has been suspended
by the city council after taking
tape recordings of telephone
conversations to a council
meeting in an attempt to have
the mayor’s son-in-law dis
missed from the town’s four
man police department.
The suspended police chief,
John Elliott, said Monday he
had suspended officer Jack
Chamblee Feb. 2 after he found
him serving beer at a tavern
owned by Mayor Dwight E.
Medlin.
Elliott said he had also
received a number of telephone
calls from Chamblee telling
him “where he is going and
what he is going to do...he
wasn’t asking me he was telling
me,” said Elliott.
According to Elliott, he went
to the city council Monday with
the recordings seeking to have
the council make Chamblee’s
suspension permanent. He
charged Chamblee with in
subordination and conduct
unbecoming a police officer.
With one council member
opposed, the five-member
group voted to suspend Elliott
pending an investigation of both
men.
Over the past few months the
town has had a series of
controversies involving the po
lice department and the city
council.