| Richmond & Petersburg Rail Road |
| Revised Table of Rates |
| For Receiving, Weighing, Transporting
and Delivering the following named Articles of Freight, on and after
Oct'r 12, 1863 |
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| Articles of Property From Richmond To |
Half-Way Station and Chester |
Petersb'g & Pt. Walthall
Junction |
Clover Hill |
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$ cts |
$ cts |
$ cts |
| Articles not named below Rates per 100 lbs |
20 |
30 |
40 |
| Barrels, empty
|
15 |
20 |
25 |
| Buckets, painted, per dozen |
50 |
50 |
50 |
| Buggies, each
|
8.00 |
10.00 |
10.00 |
| Bedsteads, common, each
|
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Chairs, per dozen
|
3.00 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
| Chairs, rocking, each
|
1.00 |
1.50 |
1.50 |
| Carriages, four-wheeled, each |
10.00 |
10.00 |
12.00 |
| Cutting Knives, and Corn Shellers, common size, and
Grain Cradles, each |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Corn Shellers, large size, worked by power |
5.00 |
5.00 |
5.00 |
| Cotton, per bale |
2.50 |
2.50 |
2.50 |
| Cement, per barrel |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.50 |
| Corn, shelled, and Rye, per bus. of 56 lbs |
10 |
13 |
15 |
| Corn Meal, Peas, Beans, and Hominy per bushel 50 lbs |
10 |
13 |
15 |
| Chickens, per dozen |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.25 |
| Cattle, Horses, Mules, Sheep, Hogs, by the car load, to
be loaded and unladed by the owner |
15.00 |
25.00 |
25.00 |
| Cattle, Horses, Mules, each |
10.00 |
10.00 |
10.00 |
| Flour, Herrings and Lime per barrel, and Salt per sack |
50 |
50 |
50 |
| Gigs and Sulkies, each |
8.00 |
10.00 |
10.00 |
| Guano, per 100 pounds |
10 |
10 |
15 |
| Gunpowder, per keg; when less than four kegs, double
price |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Grain Cradles, and Gleaners, each |
50 |
50 |
50 |
| Horses, See Cattle |
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| Hogs and Sheep, and small calves, each |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Hoop Poles, by car load (owner to load and unload) |
12.00 |
20.00 |
30.00 |
| Hogsheads, empty |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Lumber, to be loaded and unloaded by the owner, per 1000
feet B. M. |
4.00 |
7.00 |
8.00 |
| Lumber, by car load, owner to load and unload |
15.00 |
25.00 |
30.00 |
| Lathes, per 1000 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Lime, for agricultural purposes, to be loaded and
unloaded by the owner, per ton of 2000 lbs |
1.00 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
| Oats, per bushel of 33 lbs |
8 |
8 |
10 |
| Old Furniture, per cubic foot of space occupied by it in
car |
20 |
20 |
30 |
| Pianos, securely boxed, each |
10 |
10 |
10 |
| Plaster, lump, per ton of 2000 lbs |
1.00 |
1.50 |
1.75 |
| Plaster, ground, per 100 lbs |
10 |
10 |
10 |
| Shingles, per 1000 |
2.00 |
2.50 |
3.00 |
| Staves, loaded and unloaded by the owner, per car load |
15.00 |
25.00 |
32.00 |
| Tobacco, per hogshead |
2.00 |
4.00 |
4.00 |
| Turkeys and Geese, each |
20 |
25 |
25 |
| Wheat Fans, each |
200 |
2.50 |
3.00 |
| Wheat, per bushel of 60 lbs |
10 |
10 |
15 |
| Wheat Machines, including horse power |
10.00 |
12.00 |
12.00 |
| Whiskey, per barrel |
2.00 |
2.00 |
2.50 |
| Wagons, road, large size omnibusses and Stages, each |
15.00 |
15.00 |
20.00 |
| Wood, when carried at the Company's convenience, and
loaded and unloaded by the owner, for 5 miles and under, $4
per cord; when over 5 miles and less than 13, $6; and when
over 13 miles, $7; and when loaded and unloaded by the
Company's hands, 50c. per cord will be added to these rates.
5 cords are a load for a flat. |
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| Articles at 30 cts. per 100 lbs
between Richmond & Petersburg |
| Ale, |
Beer and Porter, Alum, Antimony, Apples, dried
and green, Axes, Anchors, Anvils |
| Bags |
and Bagging, Baskets, Bath Tubs, Batting,
Bed Cords, Bellows, Bells, Beeswax, Berries, Billiard Tables,
Bleaching Salts, Boiler Flues, Bonnets, Borax, Bottles, Books,
Boots and Shoes, Brass and Copper Vessels, Boats, Bread,
Brimstone, Brooms, Broom Corn and Brushes, Buffalo Robes,
Burlaps, Burning Fluid and Camphene, at owner's risk, twice
first class rates. Burial Cases, Butter, Bacon, Beef and Pork,
in barrels estimated at 300 lbs., Blinds, Beets, Black Lead,
Bones, Bricks |
| Cabinet |
Ware of all kinds, boxed, Candles, Caps, Carboys
of Acids and Chemicals, Cards, Carriages well boxed, twice first
class rates. Carriage Springs, Boxes and Axles, Carpeting and
Matting, Cassia, Chalk, China Ware, Cheese, Cider, Cigars,
Clocks and Clock Weights, Cocoa and Chocolate, Coffee and
Chickory, Confectionery, Copper and Brass Vessels, Copper of all
kinds, Copying Presses, Corks, Cotton Gins, Cotton Yarn and
Cotton Goods, Crockery, Currants, Cutlery, Chain Cables and
Chains, Chair Stuff, rough, Clay, Clover and Grass Seeds, Cob
and Bark Mills, Codfish, Crucibles, Cotton Waste, Capstans, Car
Wheels and Axles, Corn on the Cob |
| Dates, |
Demijohns at owner's risk, Dry Goods, Drugs,
Duck, Deer Skins, Dye Woods. |
| Eggs, |
Epsom Salts, Earthen and Stone Ware, Earth
Plants |
| Farm |
Wagons in pieces, Feathers, Figs, Fire Crackers
and Fire Works twice first class rates, Fish, fresh pre-paid,
Flax Seed, Forks, Friction Matches, twice first class rates,
Furniture, boxed, Furs, Fish, salted, Flax, Fire Brick, Bur
Blocks, rough, Flour in Sacks. |
| Garden |
Seeds, Gas Pipe and Fixtures, Ginger, Glass and
Glass Ware of all kinds, Glue, Grapes, Grass Seed, Buns, Rifles,
and other Fire Arms, boxed, Gunny Bags, Groceries, not otherwise
specified, Gum Copal, Gum Shelic, Grindstones, Ground Peas,
Guano. |
| Hair, |
Hardware, Hemp, Hemp and Shingle Machines, Hoes,
Hollow-ware, Horse Shoes, Hay, in bales, Hides, green, Hoofs and
Horns, Hats, Hides, dry, Honey, Household Goods, boxed, Hay |
| Iron, |
Hoop and Sheet, Iron Nuts and Rivets, Iron
railing, Iron Shutters, Iron Safes, Iron Bar, Band and Boiler,
Iron Castings, Ice, Iron Castings, heavy, Iron Pig Iron,
railroad Iron, scrap, Indigo, Ink, of all kinds |
| Junk, |
Jute |
| Lard, |
Lard Oil, and other Oils, Leather, Lemons,
Lightning Rods, Lithographing Stones at owner's risk, Liquors of
all kinds, Looking Glasses, Lampblack, Lead, Lead Pipe, Lead
sheet and bar, Liquorice, Locomotive Tire, Locomotives, loaded
on cars, and Stationery Engines, loaded and unloaded by the
owner. |
| Mats |
and Rugs, Marble, dressed, Mattresses, Measures
and Tubs, Medicines, Mineral Water, Molasses Moss, Mouldings and
Picture Frames, Musical Instruments, Muskets, Machinery. Madder,
Mahogany, Manilla, Mill Gearing, Mill Stones. |
| Nuts, |
Nails, Nail Rods |
| Oil |
Cloths, Oysters, in kegs and cans, Oakum, Oil
Cake, Onions, Oysters and Clams, in shell, pre-paid, Oats,
bailed |
| Paints, |
Paintings and Pictures, boxed, Paper of all
kinds, Paper Hangings, Pasteboard, Peaches, Peltries, Pepper,
Pickles Pies, Preserves, Prunes, Putty, Pork in barrels,
estimated at 300 lbs., Potatoes, Printing Presses, Pitch,
Ploughs |
| Quicks |
silver |
| Raisins, |
Rattan, Refrigerators, Rice, Rubber and Rubber
Articles, Rags, Rail Road Chairs and Spikes, Rope and Rigging,
Rosin |
| Saddlery, |
Saleratus, Saltpetre, Sardines, Scales and Scale
beams, Sieves, Sewing Machines, well boxed, Sheep and other
skins, dry, Shoes, Shoe Blacking, Shovels, Spades, Sizing,
Sleighs, Snuff, Soap, Soda, Spices, Spirits Turpentine, Starch,
Stationery, Steel, Stoves and Stove Fixtures, Sugar, Sumac,
Scythes and Scythe Snaths, Shot Soda Ash, Spelter, Spikes, Salt,
Stone, unwrought, Earths |
| Tallow, |
Tea, Tin of all kinds and Tin Wares, Toys,
Twine, Type, Trees and Shrubbery at owner's risk, Tobacco,
Manufactured, Tow |
| Umbrellas |
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| Varnish, |
Vaneering, Vinegar |
| Wagons, |
children's, Wagons Felloes and Bows,
Wheelbarrows, Whips, Whalebones, Willow Ware, White Lead, Wire
Cloth, Wool, Woolen Yarn Wrapping Paper, Water Pipe, cast,
Whiting, Wire, Wire Rope, Wood, in shapes, Wooden War |
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| Locomotive Engines and Tenders, by
Freight Train, two dollars per mile, provided a competent person
accompanies and rides on each Engine, who is in the employ of the
shipper or consignee. |
| Passenger, Baggage and Freight cars at
five cents per wheel per mile. |
| Cars can be hired to transport the
furniture and household articles only of persons removing, at $30
for an eight-wheeled car, between Richmond and Petersburg; & $35
bet. Richmond or Petersburg & Clover Hill. The furniture, &c, will
be at owner's risk, and to be loaded and unloaded by the owner. |
| Carriages must be securely protected by
being boxed, or by god covering, or other suitable packing, from
liability to fire or from chafing, or injury from weather, or they
will not be received for transportation, except at owner's risk. |
| Granit -- rough building stone, &c., by
special contract. |
| Seventy-five cents per 1,000 feet
additional to be charged on all lumber loaded and unloaded by the
Company's hands. |
| Unenumerated articles will be taken at
the rates charged on analogous or like articles. |
| Articles of extraordinary bulk or
unusual length, heavy machinery, steam engines and boilers long and
heavy sticks of timber, &c., must be made the subject of special
agreement with the Superintendent. |
| The rates of Freight between Richmond
and Petersburg and Port Walthall, will be the same as between
Richmond and Petersburg, except as otherwise provided for. |
| The rates between Port Walthall Junction
and Clover Hill to be the same as between Richmond and Petersburg. |
Load for a Car:
| 5,000 feet, board measure |
Pine Lumber |
| 4,000 feet board measure |
Oak Lumber |
| 2,500 |
Bricks |
| 14,000 lbs is a load for a car |
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| 5,000 |
Hoop Poles |
| 5 cords |
Oak Wood |
| 6 cords |
dry Pine |
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| By order of the Board of Directors |
| Terms Cash |
| E. H. Gill, General Superintendent |
| On and after July, 1864 thrice the above rates have
been charged as the regular rates. |
| Our rates for first class passengers are 25 cents per
mile. |
| E H Gill Supt Dec, 17, 1864 |
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