390 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



1,507 bbls. flour, though most of that was carried into 

 instead of out of the country. But in the same year, 

 1,584 head of cattle, mostly beef, and 3,353 hogs, mostly 

 fat, and 328 sheep, and 977 horses were carried; and 

 16,632 bales of domestic cotton goods were brought down 

 from the interior factories ; not one of which would have 

 reached the sea shore, if this railroad had never been 

 built. 



The increase of amount received for freight has been 

 upon the same scale. In 1834, the receipts for all freight 

 was $83,214.44; in 1844, $306,155.71; in 1849, $621,- 

 990.32; in 1834, the number of passengers was 26,649, 

 giving $79,050.35; in 1849, the number was 92,713, and 

 amount, $223,325.42. The rate of charge for passage 

 is four cents a mile for all distances under 125 miles, and 

 five dollars for all longer distances. 



These rates, so much higher than northern roads, are 

 contended for, because, unlike those roads, this could gain 

 no ivay passengers by lower fare, for the very good rea- 

 son that they are not there to gain. 



The rates of freight upon the lightest class goods, are 

 eight cents per cubic foot; and upon boxes, bales, &c., 45 

 cents per 100 lbs. Upon coffee, sugar, pork, lard, and 

 heavy articles, 25 cents per 100 lbs. 



Upon all grain and seeds, (except oats,) in sacks, 

 seven cents per bushel. Oats, five cents. Upon shovels, 

 spades, scythes, brooms, &c., 25 cents per dozen. 



Upon plows, wheelbarrows, cornshellers and straw 

 cutters, 50 cents each. 



Upon the very things, particularly plows, that should 

 be carried almost freight free, the heaviest duty is levied. 

 Upon a plow that costs only $1.37Vo, at your store, in 

 New York, and a sea freight of only 121/^ cents, the 

 farmer must pay one third of its ivhole cost to get it a 

 feiv miles up the railroad. I call the attention of directors 

 of this, and also other roads, to the policy of encouraging 

 the farmers to use improved implements and fertilisers 

 to increase their products, by offering to transport them 



