This lighterage cost two dollars per ton, and had to be paid by the ship.
The average of lighterage this season will be about three cents per cental on all wheat that goes out of the Columbia River.
The report has gone forth that to reach Portland a ship must be dragged up a hundred miles or more of river over four bad bars, and at the shipping season lighterage at enormous cost is necessary.
A Danish steamship concern is also exempted from lighterage and harbor dues and granted other facilities, but receives no money premiums.
From this amount must be taken export charges of five cents per 100 kiloslighterage at the port of shipment, and the cost of transportation from the central to the seaboard.
This factor clearly appears in the sugar and cement lighterage cases in 1908.
By 1 December ASCOM had constructed an additional dock and several lighterage wharves.
