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GERMAN EMPIRE
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Employes
No. of Post Offices
No. of Boxes
No. of Tele- graph Offices
Reichspostgebiet Bavaria .... Wiirttemberg .
Total ill Empire .
167,877
14,914
6,704
31,076
2,390
997
92,306
12,073
4,518
19,041
2,363
746
189,495
34,463
108,897
22,150
The amount of business transacted by the post-offices is illustrated by the following statistics of articles transmitted by post, and the value of post-office orders, in marks, for the year 1897: —
Eeichspostgebiet B&varia
Letters Post Cards Printed matter Samples . Journals .
1,292,091,978
515,399j716
626,085j928
41,507,744
984,174,761
136,921,360
32,483,120
57,229,693
3,360,220
198,517,392
Total, includ- ing other de- spatches . I 3, 718,992,388) 454,275,743
Money sent \ \
(marks) . i25,865,972,482 1,166,487,285
Wiirttemberg
Total
55,342,0921 1,484,355,430
21,039,304
30,731,889
1,316,926
49,137,301
568,922,140
714,047,510
46,184,890
1,231,829,454
171,079,812 1,410,036,763
4,344,347,943 29,442,496,530
The financial condition of the 1897-98 was as follows: —
united postal and telegraphic services in
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Reichspostgebiet
Bavaria
Wiirttemberg
Empire
Receipts . Expenditure
Surplus . .
324,783,298 290,956,745
29,337,071 25,673,901
13,719,477 11,444,174
367,839,846 328,074,820
33,826,553
3,663,170
2,275,303
39,765,026
The following are the telegraph statistics for the year 1897: —
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Telegraph
Lines, English
miles
74,013
10,128
3,372
Telegrapli
Wires, English
miles
Inland Telegrams
Foreign Telegrams
Reichspostgebiet .
Bavaria
Wiirttemberg
Total in Empire
295,742
30,800
9,892
25,693,469 2,249,248 1,207,659
29,150,376
9.823,895 584,769 201,052
87,513
336,434
10,609,716
