2000, ISBN: 9781130423181

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 258 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 258 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: . . . roads to Cordele, and thence over the Georgia Southern and Florida road 332 A number of other lines than those above-named may be funned by other combinations of roads with the three initial lines, over which freight may be hauled from Birmingham to Macon, Cordele, Americus and Albany. 2. After the complaint and answers were filed, some changes were made in the rates which had been in force on coal and pig iron from Birmingham to Macon, Americus, Albany and Cordele, and which were complained against. The rates so established and readjusted, as appears from the tariff sheets of the Southern Railway fc Steamship Association and of the three initial carriers from Birmingham, namely, the Louisville and Nashville, the Central R. R. of Georgia and the Georgia Pacific companies, are as shown below: Coal ton via L. and N. R. R. , 22-iO lbs. ; via Central of Georgia and Georgia Pacific, 2000 lbs. Pig iron ton by all, 2268 lbs. These readjusted rates on pig iron and coal applied to and were tlie same over all routes and lines from Birmingham to Macon, Americus, Albany and Cordele, with the exceptions as to domestic coal shown in the above table; they so remained in force until afterwards, when the Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. on August!-, 1895, established a rate of 1. 60 per ton of coal, both domestic and steam, from Birmingham to Americus, Albany and Macon, and a rate of 1. 90 from Birmingham to Cordele. Five days later, August 15, 1895, the Central R. R. of Georgia, the short line, reduced its Cordele rate to 1. 90 per ton on both domestic and steam coal, and still maintains its rate of 1. 90 on domestic and 1. 60 on steam coal to Americus, Macon and Albany. The rates on pig iron from Birmingham to Savannah and other southeastern Atlantic ports over de. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<