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1,000 of population amount automatic average number Bell system cable census cent distribution cent of increase central office cial circuit cities commercial and mutual commercial systems connection construction and equipment dividends drops or jacks employees ESTIMATED NUMBER farmer or rural funded debt geographic divisions included income independent farmer independent non-Bell installed Iowa large number magneto ment messages or talks miles of wire mutual systems combined nonrural North Atlantic division North Central division North Dakota number of messages Number of stations Number of systems number of telephones Oklahoma operating expenses panies party lines phones private-branch exchanges public exchanges reported rural lines salaries South Carolina Stations or tele stations or telephones statistics stock and bonds subscriber's switch switchboard systems and lines Table telegraph telephone companies telephone per day telephone service telephone systems telephones per 1,000 tems tion total number traffic trunk United Utah and Wyoming West Virginia Western division
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Side 109 - And every president, treasurer, secretary, director, agent, or other officer of every corporation, and every establishment of productive industry, whether conducted as a corporate body, limited liability company, or by private individuals, from which...
Side 15 - By the census of 1902 the amount of wire for the telegraph systems had increased to 1,318,350 miles and that for the telephone systems to 4,900,451 miles. Thus in 1902 the mileage of wire devoted to the transmission of telephone messages was almost four times as great as that used for telegraph purposes.
Side 109 - ... best of his or her knowledge, of every person belonging to such family in the various particulars required, and whoever shall willfully fail or refuse to render such true account shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. And every president, treasurer, secretary, director, agent, or other officer of every corporation, and...
Side 109 - Director, supervisor, enumerator, or special agent, willfully neglect or refuse to give true and complete answers to any inquiries authorized by this act, or shall willfully give false information, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to which may be added imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.
Side 14 - Not only is this again singularly true of the present condition of telephony, twenty years later, as to its sudden expansion, but it applies forcibly along the whole range of electrical industries and applications ... in...
Side 113 - ... the company through which they operate. It should be noted, however, that the use of the word "exchange" is more particularly a practice limited to the Bell system. With the independent telephonists — ie, those who are not operating as licensees of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which is the parent company of the Bell system — it is quite a common practice to call the exchange a "central office," and to use this phrase to the entire exclusion of the word "exchange.
Side 7 - Steuart, chief statistician for manufactures, in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the act of Congress of March 6, 1902.
Side 76 - The work involved in constructing such system would be so divided that each member of the association would contribute an equivalent part of the material and labor. If the country was wooded, the farmers making up the association agreed to cut and supply the poles and to haul them to the places where they were needed . . . The farmers...
Side 7 - ... OF THE CENSUS, Washington, DC, June 20, 1910. SIR: The act of Congress of June 7, 1906, amendatory of section 7 of the act approved March 6, 1902, provides that statistics concerning central electric light and power stations shall be collected by the Bureau of the Census at quinquennial periods. I have the honor to submit herewith the first report prepared in conformity with the requirements of this law. The report presents statistics concerning the physical equipment, service, and financial...
Side 15 - Columbia is paid from Congressional appropriation, the other half by the District out of the general revenues from taxation of property. TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES. SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES. [From the Census Bureau's Bulletin No. 102.] The first telegraph line in the United States was opened for business In 1844, and thirty-two years later the telephone was introduced. At the census of 1880 the telegraph companies reported the operation of 291,213 miles of wire, as compared with 3-4,305 miles...