January 29, 2007
On disaster damages c. 1907
From the Jan. 29, 1907 NYT:
J. H. Howells, one of the leading buyers of cattle and sheep in the West, said to-day that cattelmen would lose more than $1,000,000 because of the severe weather.
From EH.net, that's about $22 million in 2005 dollars.
Posted by Craig Depken at 01:09 PM in
Economics
