Census, U: Special Reports

Excerpt from Special Reports: Telephones and Telegraphs, 1902Dominance of telephony. - Although the commercial telephone has developed entirely during the past thirty years, the comparison made in Table 1 shows that it is of vastly greater importance than the tele graph. In 1902 the telephone systems operated per cent of the wire mileage reported for both tele phones and telegraphs, gave employment to per cent of the wage-earners, paid per cent of the wages, received 68 per cent of the total revenue, and paid per cent of the total expenses.In the appendix to this report are printed the special schedules employed in the collection of the telegraph and telephone statistics, and the instructions for their application.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.