Flash From The Past - 1847
Steamboat Fare on the Lakes
The Association of Steamboat and Propellor
owners on the Western
Lakes
have adopted a tariff of prices to continue through the
season.
The price for passage from Buffalo
to Cleveland is $4.50,
to Black River, Huron and Sandusky, $5,
to Maumee River, Monroe and Detroit, $6.
From Buffalo to
Mackinaw $10;
to Milwaukee, Racine, Southport [now Kenosha, WI] and
Chicago $12.
The price of freight from Buffalo to Chicago,
and intermediate
posts on the Upper Lakes, is 20 cents for heavy and 35
cents for
light freight.
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