Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1848-09-23
From the american Railroad Journal.
RAILROAD FREIGHT AND FARES

FROM me -1MGtCut i'ut"o"" "o"'""''
RATE OF RAILROAD FREIGHT AND FARES
o,S styTy. EIGHT RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Eastern Railroad, Boston 10 Portland, 100 miles
frcights groceries, grain iron, butter, and dry
goods, 3 90 through, 81 cents per mile; llSht ana
fare, 81 through, or 2S5 cents per mile.
Boston and Maine Road, Boston to South Berwick;
To mlcs-trcght, salt, sugar, groceries, iron, ana
coal, 81 10, or Ill per ton per miles hight and bulky
articles, 81 -, or 3.5 per ton per mil; on h9rst,
$S3 o. two horses, \ ~; one horse carfias' ~ 20;
two horse carriage Il o.: four horst earring IA IS;
fare, = 62 through, or 20 per m'i'' .,
Lowell Railroad, % miles -mcrchandlS" general
ly, Is % pr 1000 lbs; by cargo through, - lo
passenger arr, 90 cents, or : 10 cats per mile -
Nashua aud Lowell, 10 milSs-t'eisht %'nIraIly'
s. per ton; b1r-rS, 3 !; one horse coaches !; pas
scugcr fare, 40 cents, or 10 cents per mic ,
Concord Road, Nashua 10 concord 81 Inlss.1
freight Is uNluao l''" -. "li' ~ o ~ - no
and 50 30 through 10 Boston 20 niiGs; anu IloSI,
pine wood, - - through; horses, one, $ %; two
or at I 2 30 each; two horse c"rria%', - on;
fare, 50 cents, or 80 per mile.
Worcester Railroad, "A mliIs--coal' iroh' i"noGl'
&c. cents; heavy m'rchandlsr' Such as sugar SAT-
butter &c, about GEMS; groceries ana "ry goous,
to cents; light and bulky mcrch'hnlS', 10 ~
cents per ton per miles passenger fare, 20 or IS
cents per mlie. - e.,
iron, grain, and merchandise generally, from to
cents per ton per mile; horses, carriages 80 10
81; passenger fare, = %, or 29I cents per miie.
Stonngton Road, from Providence TO StonnSton,
473 miles-corn, grain, iron, coal, sugar sa'l' ana
dry lumber, s.; butter, dry goods, and bulky aru-
Giles, So 50 per ton; horse So; stage-coach, or
large carriage, o. cts per mile; iare oV' OF o.
cents per mile. 49,
Boston and New ork, VIA fFoVluthce "'" '7''"
ingon, 2l6 milcs-treight, measurement gooas,
cents per cubic foot; by weight, 3o cents per loo
pounds passenger fare, > D, or - per mt
Boston to New y ork, via Fall RIVER, 225 mics
freight, per cubic foot, and 30 cents per 100
pounds; passenger fare, 50, or 22l nts per mile;
Fall River Railroad, o3 mlits-coai' lroh anu
grain So and sugar, salt, groceries, butter anu airy
goods, 81 80 per ton; light and bulky articles
charged by measurement, 40 cubic ftrt TO the ION;
passenger fare, ) 80, or 25i per mlle.
Boston and New ork, VIA Norwich-trelS'' ~ y"
the other through lines; fare through , o-"hu II
passenger wishes to stop over day on the way; can
do so by applying the agent IN Ntw oTk OF DOS
ton.
Norwich and w orccsteT Road on mllrs-we nave
not got the rates Of freight; fare ) o. or 20 cents
per mile. -
Old Colony Road, Boston To flyihon'n' 81 th"Hs
freight generally, A. per ton per mile; light
and bulky articles, llO feet to the tom passenger
fare, s or 200 cents per mile.
Connecticut River Road from Springfield to Green
field, 30 mrs-trcight, iron coal, manure, lumber
grain, sugar BUTTER and salt -; dry goods anu gro
cerics, - 40 per through; fare, : ~, or els
per mil.
Providence and w orcrst"r ROAD to- H''Ts
freight, groceries, dry goods, gram s"@' SAT-" DuaI
ter, iron, coal, manure, and lumber ; Tor ='Jo
pounds; bulky articles, 10 cents per l"J Puu'us
through; fares Isl class, ; -; - Glass; % ceh'S
or 2.S4 and y ctnis per ME 49,, -,
Boston aud F!chbHrSh, Boston 10 ''cho"f$h' oO
mics-treIgat, all heavy articles, As "uttr SAT- SUI
gar, groceries, and dry goods through pr Ion = or
cents per ton per mile; light aah balNE, cehs per
ton of $50 cube feet per mIle horses al ION 'ach'
or cents per mile or : each carriage one hors''
81; two horse, - cach throuSh i"Fc' 'H'ou5n'
s %, or 20 cats pr mile " ,c
Western Railroad, " orcest'r 10 A'Dany' 100
mlles--tTcIght sugar. SAT- butter, 9rdih To"' c'a'
lumber, and groceries, 81 per ton OF 2,oOj pounds
or 200 per ton per mile; dry goods ana o'hi "Fu
Giles, s PER ton OF 2n" pounds through or t'ft per
mile; one horse, ! 10 81; two horses, > u 2o three
horses, s Ii, at the risk OF the ownSrs one morse
carriage through, S II %; two horse carriage , 10
10; coach, omnibus, S2o, at the RISK Of the
company; fare, through, u ., or ~ cents per
mile. The fare through from Boston to Albany, Is,
we believe, So, or % cents per mile
New Haven aud Springfield Railroad, o2 miles
coal, iron, manure lumber sugar. salt' &c - GD'
or AZ cts per ton per mile; groceries ana dfy &ooua
S3 90 gram 520 per ton; passenger iIFc' , / 81
or3 cents per milo"
Bridgeport, - miies-coal' IRON, ana marD4e' %
per tom sugar, salt butter, - 2n airy GOODS = /;
grain, cents per bn'hti, through; horses ana ca',
So Oh each; two horse Carriage, : %; passenger
fare, 50, OF 2Ol cents per mile.
New York and Harlem Railroad ." miies-coaI'
81 per ton; iron, sugar. &c - cents per W. pounds
heavy III, rchaHisst, $ 90, and Aght, ~ per TN;
lumber, > - pr 'J lte horses and cattle 80 9O
each; Passengtr i-r', : = Or - cents PER mn
New urk and III" Railroad, New orN 70 Port
JerviS, lOj .nlles-25 uIIcS by acknowledged 10
Ousvllle, u miles, coal, = Zl iron, AZ heavy ar
tcles, such grain, sugar, salt, butter, &c. Sc,
So 50 to -; groceries %; one morse carriasr'
So; tw hJ's', = ~ We are not able NOW 10
give the rates charged upon mu", Jfuts ceset1O1es,
&c, on this line, out they are exceedingly low ana
morning and erc"S trains are ruu expressly Tor such
freight We htyenot obtained the rates loF M cur
rent year. since the road was opened TO FORT JfTFs.
Patterso" Road TO- mHts-iEt'shls average ABOUT d
81 on per Ton delivered Oy the COMPANY; 'dre' oo
cents. or cents per mile;
Morris and Essex Road 80 mlies-'rGisht' coal,
iron, and manure, - 20 per ION; corn ana gram -