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Show Telephones and Telegraphs. (Washington Herald.) Of more than 15,000.000 miles of wire in the telegraph and telephone systems of thi country, the telephones use nearly near-ly 13 000,000. One year's telegraph mes-4ige mes-4ige numbered 36S.470.509. of which 5 869 317 were cablegrams. The capital of the telecraph and cable companies was $244,607,900. yielding an income of $'44 607 900. The capital of the telephone tele-phone systems was $514,616,604, yielding S184 401 747 In 1907 the telephone business busi-ness was eight times as great as that of ?he telegraph. Wireless stations in 1907 were op'erad at a loss of $47 628 on a capital, in six systems, of $32.-26 242. But there have been marked develop- i ments during the past two years. The railroad telegraphs number 625 any operate 860,000 miles of single telegraph wire, besides 52,518 miles of telephone wire. These systems paid out in 1907 $37,242,479 in salaries and wages, main- tained 33,441 offices and 30,115 tele-"phones; tele-"phones; transmitted 5,923,483 commercial commer-cial messages and 258,598,333 messages in connections with lailroad business. All the present indications show that the telephone will come into increased use in the dispatching of trains, interurban electric roads having been among the first to recognize the advantage of this method. |