. Telephones and telegraphs: 1902 : [and Municipal electric fire alarm and police patrol systems] . considered as rural districts, it will be necessary toadd to the totals shov^ in Table 38 a considerable pro-portion of the wire and telephones reported by thecommercial companies having their principal exchanges,or centrals, located in such places. As shown in Table33, of the 3,157 commercial systems reported, 2,627,or per cent, had their principal exchanges inplaces of less than 4,000 inhabitants, and operated418,558 miles of wire and 402,025 telephones. Whilethe combination of these tota
. Telephones and telegraphs: 1902 : [and Municipal electric fire alarm and police patrol systems] . considered as rural districts, it will be necessary toadd to the totals shov^ in Table 38 a considerable pro-portion of the wire and telephones reported by thecommercial companies having their principal exchanges,or centrals, located in such places. As shown in Table33, of the 3,157 commercial systems reported, 2,627,or per cent, had their principal exchanges inplaces of less than 4,000 inhabitants, and operated418,558 miles of wire and 402,025 telephones. Whilethe combination of these totals with those shown in Table 38, giving 677,864 miles of wire and 668,993telephones, produces some duplication, these figuresmay be accepted as an approximation of the ruraltelephone service. The rural substatiolis,. as shown in Table 38,aggregated 266,968, of which the commercial sys-tems reported per cent, the mutual systems, per cent, and the independent rural lines, cent. Table 39 contains statistics for the five states inwhich there were the greatest number of rural FIQ. 1.—TRANSMITTER HEAD.
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