Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (1909)
Merrick, George Byron, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cleveland, Ohio : A.H. Clark Co. · leaf 38
f from five to twenty-five per cent for such advance. In addition,a charge was made for storage, whether the freight was actuallyplaced in the warehouse or simply covered and watched on thelevee. If the goods were from Pittsburg or St. Louis, the freightbills were usually large, and a five per cent…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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