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{From the minutes of the
Directors' Meeting of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR,
October 27, 1863} |
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| He {the President} also
reported to the Board, that having very great reason to apprehend that
this Company would very soon be without means of subsisting its hired
laborers & without any prospect of procuring them in this market,
and that great suffering might be experienced by the other employees
of the Company from the exorbitant prices & scarcity of the
necessaries of life, he had through the Agency of officers of the
Company purchased & contracted for in remote parts of the State
from 16,000 to 18,000 lbs of beef at from 50 to 55 cts pr lb and for
about 2400 bushels of corn, wheat & rye at prices varying from $6
to $7 pr bushel, with the design of applying so much of these supplies
(of which he proposed to endeavor to procure some smaller &
further quantities) as were not needed for the subsistence of the
laborers hired by the Company, to the relief of the other employees of
the Company, by selling them to those employees in due proportions at
their cost to the Company, which action of the President was approved
by the Board. |
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