Number of messages transmitted for the press.

Number of messages transmitted by officers of the United States.
Number of messages transmitted for private parties.

Total number of messages transmitted.

Description of lines:

Total length of lines-miles.

Total miles of wire.

Number of stations or offices.

Principal and terminal stations.

Equipment and service account:

Number of poles set during the year.

Average cost of poles delivered at distributing points.

Average length and diameter of poles (or average feet, board measure, in each,

if preferred):

Kinds of wood used.

Kinds of wood preferred.

Regions of country from which your poles are procured.

Average life of poles of the different kinds of wood used on your line.

Have any of the various processes for preserving timber been applied to the poles on your line?

If so, what process or processes were used, and with what success?

Are any of your poles sawed or squared when received?

If so, what proportion have been so treated?

(The last two questions apply chiefly to the extreme Western lines.) Average number of persons employed:

General officers.

General office clerks.

Operators.
Messengers.
All others.

Total.

SPECIAL SCHEDULE. TELEPHONE-TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

Report of the

for the date of

Telephone-Telegraph Company to the Superintendent of Census,

Proper address of the company. (Give corporate name of company, and the location of the principal business office.)

General exhibit for the year:

Receipts from rent of apparatus.

Receipts from other sources.

Total receipts for the year.

Expenses for the year (specified as follows):

Salaries.

[Inquiries numbered 6 to 8, inclusive, in schedule relating to telegraph companies are common to this schedule and are not here reproduced; except that in inquiry number 7, "Capital Stock," the question "Part paid up subscriptions" is added in the table.]

Equipment and service account:

Number of circuits.

Total miles of wire.

Average cost per mile.

Number of poles set during the year.

Average cost of poles delivered at distributing points.

Average length and diameter of poles (or average feet, board measure, in each, if preferred).

Kinds of wood used.

Kinds of wood preferred.

Region of country from which your poles are procured.

Average life of poles of the different kinds of wood used on your lines.

Have any of the various processes for preserving timber been applied to the poles on your lines?

If so, what process or processes were used, and with what success?

Are any of your poles sawed or squared when received?

If so, what proportions have been so treated?

(The last two questions apply chiefly to the extreme Western lines.)

Number of central offices.

Number of subscribers' stations.

Number of receiving telephones in use.

Number of battery transmitters in use.

Equipment and service account-Continued.

Number of cells open circuit battery.

Number of cells closed circuit battery.

Kind of telephone used.

Kind of transmitter used.

Average number of persons employed:
General officers.

General office clerks.

Switch operators.
Table operators.

Line and battery men.

Messengers.

All others.

Total.

Historical:

Please state when the telephone was introduced into your city or town, giving the date when communication was first established between the points for business purposes.

Date of establishing your central district or exchange system.

Remarks:

Under this head give any essential facts that you may have showing the growth of the telephone-telegraph system in your city or town, together with the first form of apparatus used, etc.

Give the following facts: First, give name of new lines constructed since 1880, not included under extension of lines operated, and date at which such lines were put in operation; second, give name of lines which, since 1880, by purchase, lease, or contract, have been absorbed into the operating system covered by this report, and date of such purchase, lease, or contract; third, give corresponding facts for mileage released from operation since 1880 by company making this report, and state to what company the control of such mileage was transferred.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING REPLY TO QUESTIONS.

By "length of line" is intended miles of single track between terminals. Under "line owned" is to be included line which is the corporate property of the company making report.

Under "line operated" is to be included line of the operating system, the receipts from which are included in the income account of the company making report.

Under "line leased or otherwise controlled" is included all mileage making a part of the operating system exclusive of line owned and line operated under trackage rights.

The ton used in this computation should be the ton of 2,000 pounds.

In making returns of tonnage moved company's material should be excluded. Under freight-train mileage and passenger-train mileage it is intended to include trains earning revenue only.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING REPLY TO QUESTIONS.

Engines designed for and mainly used in freight, passenger, or switching service should be classified accordingly, regardless of occasional different use. Should there be no difference in design, the engines should be divided about as they are divided

in service.