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Title: Telephones and telegraphs: 1902 : (and Municipal electric fire alarm and police patrol systems)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of the Census Steuart, William Mott, 1861- Martin, Thomas Commerford, 1856-1924 Abbott, Arthur Vaughan, 1854- Mayer, William
Subjects: Telephone Telegraph Fire alarms
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ranked second with one party line station for 65inhabitants, while in the South Atlantic and SouthCentral divisions there was only one party line sta-tion for every 285 inhabitants. Traffic, hy geographic divisions.—The North Centraldivision reported the greatest population, or 34.5 percent of the whole; the largest number of telephones, or47.1 per cent of the total number; and the most mes-sages, or 48.3 per cent of the entire traffic of conti-nental United States. In this division the proportionof 25 people per telephone was next to the lowest, theWestern division showing only 21; the messages percapita were the greatest, being 90; and the messagesper telephone were third in rank, numbering 2,242,while the South Central division reported 3,015 andthe South Atlantic 2,467. The Western divisionshowed actually and relatively less population andless traffic than any other. The relation between the traffic of the commercialand mutual systems by geographic divisions is shownin Table 27.
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TELEPHONE TRAFFIC. 23 Table 27.—Messages—commercial and mutual systems, hy geographicdivisions: 1902. DIVISION. MUMBEK OF MESSAGES. Total. Commercial. Mutual. United States 5,070,554,553 4,971,413,070 99,141,483 North Atlantic 1,208,179,198353,559,870 2,446,257,875681,497,626381,059,984 1,203,979,018349,373,521 2,361,506,911677,517,694379,035,926 4,200,180 South Atlantic North Central 84,760,9643,979,9322,024,058 South Central While the North Central division returned the great-est number of both commercial and mutual messages,giving 2,361,506,911 for the one and 84,750,964 for theother, it is noticeable that the commercial messageswere about twice as many as were reported for theNorth Atlantic division, which ranked second, while themutual messages were twenty times as many as were,reported for any other division. In fact, the NorthCentral division returned about six times as manymutual messages as all other divisions put together. The greatest average number, 3,031, of commercia

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