Four postcards addressed to Springville Co-op
[Springville, Utah]: 1884. Four [8 x 13 cm] printed and postmarked postcards addressed to the Springville Co-op institution from various merchants peddling wares or requesting goods. All four postcards are in very good condition, each have a small unobtrusive pinhole, likely from having been hung up at the co-op. Item #63776
Three of the postcards are notices of the prices each sender will pay for delivery of eggs... Addressed to the superintendent ("Supt."), one of the cards is addressed directly to "F.C. Boyer" (Francis Christian Boyer), who was the superintendent of the co-op at the time. Boyer moved from Pennsylvania to Utah across the plains with his family, settling in the Salt Lake valley in the summer of 1953. In 1956 the family moved south to Springville where Boyer became a skilled merchant, eventually working his way from clerk to superintendent at the Springville Co-op. Boyer would eventually serve one term as Mayor of the City of Springville from 1904-1906. One of the postcards is from Clark, Eldredge & Co. requesting a meeting with Supt. Boyer to sell the co-op their wares. The other three postcards are requests to the co-op to deliver eggs with notice of the price that each customer is willing to pay -- one from Henry Cohn & Co. who was willing to pay 14 cents per dozen, one from Utah Soap M'f'g Co. who "can allow you 20 cents" per dozen, and one from Hyde & Petit who was "paying 27 cents per dozen." ...the price of eggs is still going up.
Price: $100.00