198 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



Shoes, (from the bills of 1848,) 475.00 



Cotton cloth, for clothing hands, 800.00 



Woolen " " " " 444.00 



Woolen blankets, 200.00 



225 barrels of mess pork, at average of $10,. . 2,250.00 

 50 barrels of flour, (one to each family at 



Christmas,) 225.00 



Hoop poles, for sugar and molasses casks, .... 200.00 



Oil for sugar house, 175.00 



Physician's bill and medicines, ($1.75 a head,) 350.00 

 Taxes and other incidental expenses for sun- 

 dries unenumerated, 200.00 



The interest upon the estimated value of the 

 plantation and all upon it, would be, at 8 per 



cent, 16,501.20 



25,920.20 



Nothing for family expenses is included in the above 

 estimates. 



Mr. Pugh has been upon this place 24 years, and never 

 bought corn but one year. His average yield per acre 

 upon new land is thirty bushels. And that is double the 

 usual average of the state, I think. The quality of his 

 soil is above the average. Next to the bayou it is con- 

 siderably sandy, but grows more stiff as we go back to- 

 ward the swamp. 



The estimated value of this plantation is as follows : — 



1,600 arpents of land, (1,000 cultivated and 600 



timber,) at $50 $ 80,000 



1,400 arpents back lands, (cypress swamp,) 



cost $1.25 1,750 



The mansion house being a new one is estimated 

 at cost over and above the ordinary value of 

 land, 30,000 



201 negroes, at average of $400 each, 80,400 



60 farm mules and horses, at average of $100 



each, 6,000 



