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Prices in the West about mid 19th century

Average prices pioneers would pay when going westward

What Prize in $ Details
10 gallon was tub 1.25  
axe 1.25  
bacon 0.05 per pound
beans 0.06 per pound
bread pan 0.25  
bridle and blinders 3.00  
bucket 0.25  
butcher knife 0.50  
candles 0.15  
cattle 8.00 to 20.00 depending on age
cloth cover 1.00 or less per yard
coffee 0.10 per pound
coffee mill 1.00  
coffee pot 0.75  
Colt revolver 25.00  
corn meal 0.05 per pound
covered wagon 70.00  
dried fruit 0.06 per pound
farm wagon 25.00 to 30.00  
ferrying rivers 2.00 to 5.00 per wagon
flour 0.02 per pound
frying pan 1.50  
grease mostly free the tallow was usually mixed with pine resins or sometimes beeswax thinned with turpentine
hand tools 2.50  
hoe 1.25  
horse blankes 2.00  
hunting knife 1.00  
Indian moccasins 0.50  
lard 0.05 per pound
milk cow 70.00 to 75.00  
mule 10.00 to 15.00  
mule collar 1.25  
musket 10.00  
nails 0.07 per pound
ox 30.00 to 35.00 4 to 6 but more were better
pack horse 25.00  
pack saddle 2.50  
pepper 0.08 per pound
rice 0.05 per pound
riding horse 75.00 or less  
rifle 15.00 double barreled rifles
rope 2.50  
saddle with saddle bags 5.00  
saleratus 0.12 per pound
salt 0.06 per pound
sheet iron stove 15.00 to 20.00  
shotugn 10.00 mostly single barrel shotguns
shovel 1.25  
single shot pistol 5.00  
soap 0.15 per pound
stew kettle 0.50  
sugar 0.04 per pound
tack 5.00  
tanned buffalo hide 4.00  
tea 0.60 per pound
tent 5.00 to 15.00  
tin table settings 5.00  
vinegar 0.25 per gallon
wagon bows 3.00 per set
whip 1.00  
woolen blanket 2.50  


When arriving in Oregon they had to pay

What Prize in $ Details
apples 0.12 per pound
bacon 0.25 per pound
beans 1.50 per bushel
beef 0.10 per pound
butter 0.60 per pound
candles 0.75 per pound
chickens 1.00  
coffee 0.20 per pound
cows 50.00 to 100.00  
dried peaches 0.12 per pound
flour 0.06 per pound
lard 0.25 per pound
lumber 25.00 or less per thousand board feed (depends on cut and sort of tree)
nails 0.17 per pound
oats 1.25 per bushel
onions 2.50 per bushel
ox 50.00 to 100.00  
peas 1.50 per bushel
plow iron 62.00  
pork 0.12 per pound
potatoes 0.75 per bushel
rice 0.06 per pound
salaterus 0.25 per pound
salt 0.03 per pound
sugar 0.15 per pound
tallow 0.15 per pound
tobacco 0.25 per pound
turkeys 2.25 per pound
wagon 100.00 to 200.00  
wheat 1.05 per bushel