http://www.sltrib.com Hal Schindler Published: 03/26/1995 Category: Features Page: J1 With 10,000 or so Mormons populating the Great Salt Lake Valley and neighboring settlements by summer of 1849 and with more on the road, the need for some sort of hard cash in the economy was acute. The barter system had worked for a while, but as more members of The …