| From the Alamo Express (San Antonio,
Tex.) |
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| March 29, 1861 |
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| To the Public |
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Railroad Notice
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The San Antonio & M. G. {Mexican
Gulf} Railroad is now completed from Lavaca to Victoria, and
the Company is prepared to transport freight and passengers over the
same at the rate of the established charges.
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The Company has a commodious warehouse at Victoria, into
which freights can be received and stored for five days without charge
to the owners.
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Messers Cross & Hensley and Kerr & McKee, of
Lavaca, have already made arrangements to receive and forward
consignments of goods made to them, from the Depot at Victoria, for
three cents per barrel in addition to the usual charges for receiving
and forwarding from Lavaca. Other forward Merchants are preparing to
receive their consignments from vessels as they arrive at Lavaca and
forward from Victoria -- all paying the R. R. freight to the point,
and including the same with charges for ship's freights, etc.
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Advise your Merchants at Lavaca, to forward your goods to
Victoria and they will be forwarded at the additional charge of 3
cents as above stated -- making the charge 20 cents in lieu of 17
cents.
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Those forwarding merchants at Lavaca, and Powderhorn, who
have not already established branches of their houses at Victoria,
will have authorized Agents there to attend to their consignments, so
that cartmen and wagons will meet with no delay at Victoria, in
obtaining their freights.
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A tariff table of rates has been established and in due time will be
made known in full. On the principal articles the rates are as
follows, to wit:
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| freight, in bbls (dry or wet) and in bales
(which includes nearly every class of merchandize whether
light or heavy |
15 cents for 100 lbs: |
| Cotton per bale |
50 cents |
| Lumber, of ordinary kinds and sizes $5 per m
feet, when loaded and unloaded by the owners |
$4, per the m. |
| Passengers |
$1.50 |
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Other freights as low, or lower than charged by the Texas
Central or any other R. Road in Texas, for the same distance. The
charges and commissions for receiving and forwarding as now
established by the houses engaged in the business on the Bay and at
Victoria, are far below those of like character doing business in
connection with any R. Road in Texas.
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Jno. C. French, Pres't.
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San Antonio
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J. O. Wheeler Supt.
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Victoria
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March 28th, 1861
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