have a seat. I put a pot of coffee on to perk...

"I have been waiting for an opportunity to send a letter to Salt Lake or I should have written
before. We have to pay a dollar for sending or receiving each letter. I tasted butter for the
first time since we came here and it was a treat I can assure you, but as long as it is ten and
twelve shillings a pound I think we shall do without it most of the time. Everything is very
high here. Sugar is 75 cents a pound, pork sixty, flour from twenty five to thirty, nutmegs
50 cents an ounce."
"We had extremely cold weather here the week before last. The mercury in the thermometers after
going forty degrees below zero froze in the bulb. I never knew such cold weather. I was so afraid that the children would freeze their noses or ears that I got up a number of times in the night
to see that their heads were covered. Their beds would be covered with frost."

Mary Edgerton, Winter 1863-64



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