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UNITED STATES

sent in 1911 was 77,780,732, not including messages sent over leased wires or under railroad contracts ; the receipts, 37,158,989 dollars ; expenses, 30,053,632 dollars; and profits, 7,105,357 dollars.

The following table relates to the business of another important company ; the figures of the table do not represent the operations of one company, but the aggregation of the figures of many companies which have traffic contracts with or go to make up the telegraph system which is generally known as the "American Telephone and Telegraph Company" ("Bell Telephone System") : —

Operating Companies

Exchanges

Total miles of exchange service wire

Total circuits

Total employees .... Total subscribers .... Length of wire operated . miles Instruments in hands of licensees under rental at beginning of year number Capital of Companies . dollars Gross earnings . . ,,

Net earnings! ... ,,

1909

1910 :

5,043

1 4,968

8,098,079

8,675,474

1,668,211

1,829,942

98,533

104,956

3,215,245

3,588,247

9,830,718

10,480,026

7,047,023

8,338,648

180.587.000

256,475,300

27,898,970

32,761,341

18,121,707

23,095,389

1911

1912

4,933

5,014

9,678.218

10.872,101

2,082,960

2,306,360

120,311

128,439

4,030,608

4,474,171

11,642,212

12,932,615

9,231,298 ' 10,059,603

263,835,000 318,427,500

35,3.^8,329 | 36,970,230

26,855,898 ! 27,733,200

1 After deducting interest. The postal business of the United States was as follows

Fiscal Year ending June 30

Pieces of Mail

handled in

Railway Mail

Service

Registered

Cases and

other

single pieces

in R.M.S.

Rotary locked

registered

pouches

and sacks

handled

in R.M.S.

Total

1909 1910 1911 1912

22,601,925,430 24,689,223,935

57,576,056 69,032,627 72.583,898 70,888,085

3,829,6.58 5,111,829 6,597,298 6,167,929

22,663,331,144 24,763,368,391

Money orders issued (1911-1912) :—

Dollars . 85,286,380 1 amounting to 594, 901, 623

Domestic International

Total

3,708,773 2 88,995,153

86,095,404 680,997,028

There are (1912) 58,729 offices. The total expenditure of the department during the year 1911-1912 was 248,525,450 dollars ; total receipts, 246,744,015 dollars ; excess of expendituie, 1,785,523 dollars.

1 This number includes 747,108 orders, amounting to 11,564,(519 dollars, payable in Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Canal Zone, Cuba, Mexico, New- foundland, Philippine Islands, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, and Virgin Islands. Such orders are drawn on domestic money order forms.

- This number does not include orders drawn on domestic forms for paymeui in

the countries named above in paragraph 1.