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Our Catholic H t1ritage in Texas
sweetened for a peso and a half, various grades of cloth ranged from one-half peso to four, brown domestic made in Puebla for six reales, ready-made skirts, of the best quality, either blue or red, for three pesos, a cheaper grade for twenty-two reales, fine cloth for shawls, in three vara lengths, twenty-two reales, powder puffs, of good grade for four reales, a. cheaper grade at three 1·eales. The first-class shawls of cotton and silk mixture were to sell for seventeen pesos. These were full size. Others of cheaper quality and not so large sold for twelve pesos. Hose for men and women cost five reales. Different grades of blankets ranged from slightly over three pesos to twelve pesos each, black hats, fully lined and of the best quality for four pesos, cheaper grade and only half lined for two pesos, a bundle of good, clean tobacco without grass for eleven reales, the ordinary grade for nine reales. All things considered, soap was cheap, ten cakes selling for one peso, and so were kid shoes, which could be purchased for twelve reales, the cheaper shoes for eight. Gourd cups were one real a piece. Horses were sixteen pesos each, a complete saddle with all the trimmings cost twenty-eight pesos, the saddles without leather- trimmed stirrups cost fifteen pesos. Mexican saddles fully equipped were twenty-five pesos, guns or rifles were thirty pesos, and the leather cases, lined with silk, ten pesos. A more ordinary gun case also of leather sold for six pesos. Gunstocks were three and a half pesos, short swords, fifteen pesos, scabbards made of leather and the corresponding belt and attachments six reales, hunting knives of good grade with leather cover three and a half pesos, a pair of iron stirrups eleven pesos, a pair of large spurs, good grade, six ,pesos, strong and best quality bridles four and a half pesos, ordinary quality three pesos. The comales on which the handmade corncakes were cooked and the copper kettles sold accord- ing to weight at the rate of ten reales a pound. A yard of satin ribbon sold for three reales, serge of all colors for one peso, silk in loose skeins for twelve reales an ounce in any color, men's heavy weave silk hose of all colors for six pesos, the same grade for women three and a half pesos, lace hose for women from Milan for six pesos, men's hose made of woolen yarn for fourteen reales, the same for women for ten reales, an ounce of cotton thread for five reales, paper pads for two and a half reales. Although this is not a complete list, sufficient items have been enumer- ated to give the reader a concrete idea of the extent and nature of the maximum price lists which were given to each presidio after a careful
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