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There is no work going on. I can get nothing to do. You may therefore feel curious to knowhow I get my living. 1 will tell you: Ilive on the interest of my money. ! have $300 Texas money for which 1 have no immediate use, the interest on which just pays my hoarding at $14 a week. To loan money and be vigilant in securing it, is now the beat business in tho Republic. With a few hundred dollars a fortune might soon be accumulated—rate of interest from one to two per centum per day.Land can be had for almost nothing.—At this tiroo 1 could buy the right of a league lor $100, and frequently lunds which are located, for double that amount: So lauds ut this timeand in this place do not constitute riches.Flour is $10 a bid; pork, mens, $05 to 70; beef, No. 1, $ 10 to 45; apples $20 to 25; potatoes $15 to 20; corn $4 « bushel; butter $1, 25 to 1,50 a lb; whiskey$2,87 10 3 a hbl; yellow pino lumber $100 per 1000 feet; white pine $1,25 per 1000.Thera ueonia to boat this time, a strong probability of on invasion from Mexico, and tho whole country i« breathing the spirit of
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Peru Gazette
Peru, Indiana, US
Sat, May 16, 1840
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WY, USA 06 Mar 2022
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