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 |
  |