Pinetop 1905 - The Cost at Babbitt's Store

Bet ya didn't know that in 1905 that the only local store for the White Mountains was in Holbrook and the cost for a pair of boots was $4.75. Chocolate was .25 cents a pound while 100 pounds of flour cost $4.00! If you need to make some new shirts for your boys you were looking at .12 1/2 cents per yard for flannel cloth or you could just buy a pound of bacon for the same price instead.
If you needed a coffin from the best coffin maker around then a bottle of whiskey would do it. Back then on the weekend for fun, the young men would 'go out on Blue Ridge and round up wild burros on foot and run them. In those days [they] we didn't have any horses.'
Interested in more fun history of the White Mountains please stop at the Show Low Museum on the Deuce of Club next to the courthouse - it may have moved by the end of June but directions will be posted on the door or the courthouse can tell you. When you are there, pick up a copy of Top O' The Pines by Gene Luptak.