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telegraph service. 1007
Table 160. Telegraph service, revenue and expenditure.*
Average for
the years
Paid messages.
Island.
Foreigu
terminal.
Transit.
Messages
not paid
Revenue.
K ronor.
[-Expenditure.-]
{+Expen-
diture.+}
Kronor.
1861/65........... 160,474 53,828 21,974 235,778 • 578,830 508,481
1866/70........... 320,995 136,153 54,154 511,302 707,920 652,486
1871/75 ........... 546,913 247,332 67,599 861,844 1,105,777 911,125
1876/80........... 574,377 301,868 79,088 055,333 42,707 1,241,655 1,201,572
1881/85........... 608,632 425,316 135,861 1,1*0,620 45.957 1,334,238 1,256,810
1886/90........... 723,694 539,550 175,509 1,438,753 57,677 1,359,451 1,285,079
1891/95........... 940,855 692,710 224,743 1,858,308 92,621 1,432,240 1,336,847
1896/00........... 1,109,001 842,361 328,380 2,270,742 165,117 1,707,220 1,420,952
In 1900.......... 1,252,848 889,216 364,255 2,506,310 243,164 1,846,774 1,513,471
» 1901.......... 1,293,912 912,654 472,871 2,570,437 834,393 1,891,281 1,570,073
> 1902.......... 1,237,905 971,375 347,043 2,556,323 226,428 1,858,142 1,586,396
organization, partly in consequence of an increase in the use of
telegraphic communication (this was especially the case after the reduction
in the charge for telegrams, in 1889) and partly —• and chiefly — in
consequence of the immense development of the telephone system during
the last decades of the 19th century.
The telegraph net of the Department, at the close of 1902, extended
to 9,566 km. of lines and cables, and to 29,116 km. of wires. Besides
this, there are telegraph lines running along all the railways, intended,
in the first place, for the "use of the railways themselves, for the
direction of the traffic, but also, as a rule, employed in forwarding
telegraphic despatches from the public. The Telegraph Department runs
wires on about half of these pole-lines, which are kept up in common
by the Department and the railways in question, and the length of
which is included in the figures given above.
The railway telegraph net, at the close of 1902, extended to 7,486
km. of lines independent of those of the Telegraph Department, and
to 23,014 km. of wires: thus Hie total length of the telegraph net of the
country, at the date mentioned, amounted to 17,052 km. of lines and
cables, and 52,130 km. of wires.
The number of telegraph offices, at the close of 1902, amounted to
181, of which number 4 had day-and night service; 109 had all-day
service, 61 had partial day-service, and 7 were state telephone offices
with complete telegram service. If to these we add 364 telegraph
offices on the state railways, and 1,074 on the private ones, the total
number of telegraph offices amounts to 1,619.
To satisfy the public need of connection with the telegraph-net,
so-called telegram rooms have been arranged, both at telephone
con-necting-stations, and at private subscribers’ in the country, from whence
the telegrams handed in are telephoned to the nearest telegraph office,
* Railway telegraphs not included. — A krona = l lO shilling = 0268 dollar.
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