Show TELEGRAPHIC SITUATION Number Kumber of ot messages handled by Postal and Western Vestern Union Telegraph companies during the year yeat 1905 1903 02 Practically messages each week day this does not include tel telephone telephone telephone ephone messages In the United States there are ure 7 the Western Union reaches 60 50 per cent of them In Great Britain the telegraph lines reach only 25 per vel cent of the The United States has as many miles of telegraph wire as have countries of Europe and Asia combined The Western estern Union has miles of line Une and more than titan miles of ot wire wiTe S The Postal company has about miles of line Une and about miles of wire S SIn In America there is one mile of wire to every fifty persons in England S there is one mile of wire for or every persons of the telegraph wire mileage in the United States is east of ot the Mississippi river In 1865 the rate for a message from New Now York to Denver was wasT 7 T today that rate Is 75 7 5 cents S S From Chicago to Denver the rate In 1865 was 55 for lor a tele tole telegram telegram gram today it is CO GO cents c S The gross receipts of ot the Western Vestern Union In 1905 were more than the receipts of ot the Postal were in comparison as may be compared Its extent of ot system The Western Union in Salt Lake City employs fifty telegraph operators and is the chief relay point for Utah western Wyoming western Colora Cobra Colorado CobraS S do all of ot Idaho save four counties southern louthern Montana and eal Ii tI o oReno of oft t Reno fleno The estimate te of the manager of the local office Is that mes messages messages sages are handled handl din In the Western Union Om s every ery day except Sunday Colonel R It C dowry Clowry president of the Western estern Union and general manager says he knows nothing of dissatisfaction among the T t S Sunday SundRY there will be a meeting of the Chicago local and strike orders are not expected not later than Monday S x Four F ur hundred h boards of trade merchants exchanges and the thi like Jike throughout the th country have asked President Roosevelt Rosevelt to Je Jc its lils good g goft offices oft les in an attempt to avert a strike S Chicago Is the principal telegraph center enter In Jn tho United States Stat s and is fg the lh keystone to any situation that may arise S local is No o 1 the number of ol the th local in New Ns N W York is 16 The TheW Western estern Union In Chicago employs loUt o t 8 50 inn tn n 8 10 of whom hom are arc claimed to be union men or women i I i I 4 5 s 5 S1 |