 | Arthur Twining Hadley - Railroad law - 1885 - 296 pages
...Passenger journeys were attended with discomfort, and not infrequently with danger.1 Long-distance freight movement was absolutely impossible. The charge...heavily. It forced every community to live within itself. To what extremes it was carried is shown by the whiskey insurrection of 1798. The settlers... | |
 | Arthur Twining Hadley - Railroad law - 1885 - 288 pages
...Passenger journeys were attended with discomfort, and not infrequently with danger.1 Long-distance freight movement was absolutely impossible. The charge...inland, the difference representing the bare cost of transportation.3 It was on these cheap articles of common use that the charge bore most heavily. It... | |
 | George Gunton, Hayes Robbins - Economics - 1901 - 236 pages
...unsafe. Passenger journeys were attended with discomfort, and not infrequently with danger. Long-distance freight movement was absolutely impossible. The charge...heavily. It forced every community to live within itself." —From Hadley's " Railroad Transportation, Its History and Its Laws," Chapter II. QUESTIONS... | |
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The charge for hauling a cord of wood twenty miles was three dollars. For hauling a barrel of flour one hundred and fifty miles it was five dollars. Either of these charges was sufficient to double the price of the article and set a practical limit to... 