XL REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND^ FISHERIES. 



uot wanting where important freight was left behind in order to permit 

 the fish to be carried through without detention. 



Since the introduction, however, of transporting cars, this method of 

 distribution has been very largely given up, being now employed only 

 for service of localities within a few hundred miles of Washington. 



While some railroads carried these cars free of any charge whatever, 

 most of the others have exacted only a very trifling sum, generally 20 

 cents per mile for the car and five messengers, any additional number of 

 messengers, when required, paying regular fares. The principal roads 

 charging the twenty cents per mile, or thereabouts, are as follows: 



Alabama Great Southern Railway ; Chattanooga, Tenn. 



Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 Railroad; Topeka, Kans. (In part only. See below.) 

 Atlanta and West Point Railroad ; Atlanta, Ga. 

 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ;" Baltimore, Md. 

 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ; Richmond, Va. « 



Chicago and Northwestern Railway ; Chicago, 111. 

 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ; Chicago, 111. 

 Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway ; Chicago, 111. 

 Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Saint Louis and Chicago Railway ; Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway ; Columbus, Ohio. 

 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad; Kuoxville, Tenn. 

 Georgia Railroad ; Augusta, Ga. 

 Illinois Central Railroad ; Chicago, 111. 

 Louisville and Nashville Railroad ; Louisville, Ky. 



Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad (now Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore) ; 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Minneapolis and Saint Louis Railroad ; Minneapolis, Minn. 

 Nashville, Chattanooga and Saint Louis Railway ; Nashville, Tenn. 

 New York and New England Railroad ; Boston, Mass. 

 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad ; New York, N. Y. 

 Pennsylvania Railroad ; Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Pennsylvania Company : 



J(?ff'ersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railway ; Louisville, Ky. 



Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Saint Louis Railway. 



Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway. 

 Petersburg Railroad ; Petersburg, Va. 

 Raleigh and Gaston Railroad; Raleigh, N. C. 

 Richmond and Danville Railway; Richmond, Va. 

 Richmond and Petersburg Railroad ; Richmond, Va. 

 Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad ; Richmond, Va. 

 Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad ; Terre Haute, Ind. 

 Virginia Midland Railway ; Alexandria, Va. 

 Western Railroad of Alabama ; Montgomery, Ala. 



The following roads performed this service free, except the Saint 

 Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern, which made a charge of 10 cents 

 per mile: 



Missouri Pacific Railroad. 



Saint Louis, Kepkuk and Northwestern Railway. 



Atchison, Topeka and Santa F^ Railroad. 



Flint and Pfere Marquette Railway. 



Utah Central Railroad. 



Northern Pacilic Railroad. 



