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Quick Time Across The Continent

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
April
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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New revelations of the posHibilities in 1 quick tnuiKjiortation of freigbt aoross j tliis continent have been mod; recently. A few weeks ago six ear-loads of tea were fcransferréd from Sim Francisco to New York in thirteen days by the Baltimore. umi Oliio line. This time hns just been beaten by twonty cnr-loads of silks, tea mul i'iuicv urtioles from the Oity of Peking, which left San Francisco on Murcli 20 by the Oentra] and Union Pacific imd the Baltimore and Oliio route (continental last freiglit ■line), and arrived in New Vork Marofa :i) at (i jj. m. The tnün passed St. Louis March 27; Cinciimati, MaroL 28; Parkersburg on the 29th, and Baltimore on the liOth, at 9:20 a. m. It nuule the UUprepetlented tinie for a freiglit train of beo dayw aoroaB the continent. The freiglit is coiisigned to Tillany & Co., Brown Ihothers & Co., l)rexel, Morgan A Co., Carter, Hawley i Oó., and öthjBI New York firm; but abont lialf of tlie total shipment is to go on tn Ijondon, and will be Bent by Ijivcrpool tilfaniern Baillng l'roni this port today. All the proixlH hit l'roin Oliiná und Japan, mul tlieir total value i very lpjge. This fast freight train is an experiment made to show the English importers from ' China and Japan that the trans-Amcrienn routo offered them the best and epeediest conveyance of their Oriental purchases. - New York Tribune.

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Old News
Michigan Argus