| From the Knoxville Daily Register |
| October 17, 1861 |
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| Railroad Convention |
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| A meeting of railroad
officers, called at the instance of major W. S. Ashe, Assistant
Quartermaster, Confederate States Army, to agree upon a uniform rate of
transportation for Government freight, was held at Chattanooga on the
4th
inst., Dr. Emanuel, President of the Southern Railroad Company, being
Chairman of the meeting; and the following rates were agreed upon, viz:
Twenty cents per hundred pounds per hundred miles, for heavy freight
except for percussion caps and fixed ammunition, which were laid at
forty two cents per hundred pounds; and hay and bran, which are to pay
fifteen cents per hundred pounds. |
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Steps
were also taken to aid the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroads in
moving forward the immense quantity of Government freight, which has
been detained for some time on the line between Chattanooga and
Lynchburg.
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We understand 350 car loads have been detained between those places
for want of motive power. The various companies between New Orleans,
Memphis and Lynchburg, were called upon to contribute the quota of
locomotives, and we learn engines enough have been obtained for this
purpose, Colonel Tate, President of the Memphis and Chattanooga {Memphis
& Charleston RR} Company, contributing promptly two
locomotives. |
| Richmond Enquirer |
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