They are crops, too, for which the acreage required is small, and whose value is so high in proportion to bulk that the freightage does not seriously detract from profits.
The purpose of this provision is obvious, since to goods bought at the coast the cost of over-sea freightage and handling is added in reaching the price on which the tax is assessed.
The carriage of grain from Minnesota to New Orleans by this method costs no more than the freightage from the same point to Chicago by rail.
It is going to build a two million dollar ‘deepo’ there and arrange a freightage shed that will astonish creation in that part of the country.
On the other side the railway companies convey settlers at very cheap rates, and there are special freightage rates for settlers’ goods.
Their idea was to make their line pay from the first by creating passenger and freightage traffic as they went.
At length it was arranged that they should test the safety of it by first sending over a part of the freightage of the raft, as less valuable than human life.
The large sail which had formed the tent cover was spread over the whole of the freightage and nailed down.
The ground floor of the building appears to have been divided into sections, in which space for the freightage or equipment of each of the several vessels was allotted.
The upper section, between Rosario and Santa Fe, is less safe than the lower section, and this is reflected in the cost of freightage from Santa Fe.
When the timber-supply is exhausted in the district, the works gets its material from a distance, as long as the freightage permits.
The war and the difficulties of marine freightage have lessened the seriousness of the problem of carrying goods rapidly by rail in Argentina.
The spread of agricultural colonization was at first hampered by the cost of freightage which cereals could bear over an area with a radius of about 200 miles from the ports.
While Kwaque obeyed, the mate sounded the well for the last time, reporting three feet and a half, and the lighter freightage of the starboard boat was tossed in by the sailors.
The freightage of significance carried by each concrete, sensuous, picture-making word is bound to vary according to the entire physical and mental history of the man who hears it.
Their power lies in their freightage of association, in their tactical position at the focus of converging experience, in the number and vigor of the occasions in which they have crossed and re-crossed the palpitating thoroughfares of life.
This new world of America, a seemingly impenetrable barrier, lay between Spain and the Indies--the real Indies from which the Portuguese were yearly bringing home a rich freightage of gems and spices.
I suppose she was thinking of that course of true love that never yet ran smooth, upon which the freightage of her life was ventured.
No, Tom, that precious freightage is for a more substantial craft.
Up the Thames sailed the lucky little merchantman in the year of 1687, with three hundred thousand pounds sterling as herfreightage of treasure.
Because of her reputation for speed, she received freightage of six pounds sterling per ton while British ships rode at anchor with empty holds or were glad to sail at three pounds ten per ton.
Until it had been demonstrated that Virginia could provide profitable freightage for the ships of England, her future rested upon an insecure foundation.
The locomotive rolled in and gently halted, as though to avoid jostling its precious freightage of talent.
Hard by stood an express wagon, its driver ready to receive what puny freightage of household and personal belongings as might be consigned to his care.
Such a freightage of joys he had never taken with him on his road to town.
Nor are the freightage and postage moneys the only sources of profit.
