Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...that this was equivalent to seven dollars a cord. I made a point to visit the markets, to see how the people live. Let us reduce the word at once to the singular number. Formerly, the rancheros and Pueblos brought in their market wares to the Plaza, and all the early American descriptions gave us pictures of them standing patiently wrapped in their serapes, smoking their cigaritos, mingled up with their wares and burros. It was all very picturesque, but very dirty. The Plaza had been, time out of mind, the market, and it was predicted, while the new market-house was going up, that the people would never be got into it. Well, the market-house was hardly completed when there was a stampede for it which astonished the knowing ones. The secret was that.there was a scramble for the best places. It is open every day. But a small portion of the provisions used is sold in it, the greater part being ordered and brought directly to the houses. More than one half the butter used here comes from the land whence, in New Mexico, every thing good is believed to come, namely, " The States." Here is the Santa F6 price current: Butter, one dollar per pound; beef and mutton, ten cents; kid (entire), seventy-five cents to one dollar; eggs, seventy-five cents to one dollar per dozen; milk, twenty cents per quart; goat's milk, five cents; flour, per hundred weight, fifteen to eighteen dollars--(probably be lower with new crop); salt, one dollar per bushel. The Pueblo Indians bring in fruit, trout, and game from the mountains, and, also, nearly the sole industrial productions of the country, --jars, dishes, and cups of pottery, some of it painted so as to impart an almost Etruscan or Egyptian air. Of apples there are scarcely any. Apricots are...
