Title
Freight tariff New Orleans to Brownsille via Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Rail Road and Morgan Line U.S. Mail Steamers and Rio Grande Railroad : in effect February 11th, and superseding all previous tariffs : Chas. A. Whitney & Co., agents, New Orleans, La. : M.J. Gomila, agent, Brownsville, Texas.
Publication
[New Orleans] : [Chas. A. Whitney & Co.], [between 1871 and 1875]
Manufacture
[New Orleans] : Rea's Steam Print., 48 Magazine St., N.O.
Physical Description
4 unnumbered pages ; 36 x 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2014 Folio 564: Manuscript telegraph message affixed, printed at top, "Half rate messages. The Western Union Telegraph Company"; message regarding shipping sent to Thos. Carson and signed: James Stillman.
Notes
"Rates of freight (payable in gold) from New Orleans to Brownsville"--Caption title on page 2. "Conditions"--Caption title on page 3.
Dated from the fact that the Rio Grande Railroad, also known as the Port Isabel and Rio Grande Railroad, was completed in 1871 and destroyed by storms in 1873 and 1875.
Variant and related titles
Rates of freight (payable in gold) from New Orleans to Brownsville.
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2014