“Increased Value of
Mules,” from the Charlotte Observer, as reprinted in the March 3, 1904 issue of
the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C.
Mr. James W.
Wadsworth returned yesterday from Indianapolis where he purchased 18 horses and
232 mules, which will be brought to Charlotte and sold here. Every year the
firm of Wadsworth’s Sons & Co. sell between 500 and 1,000 mules in this
county and they buy these at about $26 apiece cheaper in Indianapolis than in
Atlanta, “though in Atlanta,” said Mr. Wadsworth, “there are more mules than in
any other place in the world.”
“The increased
value in the price of mules has been noted for six or eight years, but the
greater increase of the value came with the Boer-British War. A mule that now
sells for $150 could have been bought five years ago for $100.”
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