The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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The Price of beef.

--The amendment to the market ordinance, recently adopted, provides that whenever the price of beef exceeds twenty cents per pound, any person may, without license, sell meats in any part of the city. This modification of the ordinance affords a fine inducement for a new and profitable business in the city, viz: the supply of families living at remote or inconvenient distances from the markets with meats and vegetables. Any enterprising person opening a shop where these articles may be regularly obtained, of good quality and fair prices, would certainly make money. Many housekeepers dispense with the use of meats now oftener than once or twice a week, on account of the long distances they have to go or send for marketing. They would gladly become the customers of those who would undertake to keep supplies of meats and vegetables within a reasonable distance of their residences.