The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
Telegraph
Telegraph.
In British Columbia the Telegraph is in operation 632 miles, including 16½ miles of submerged cable. The expenditure during the year was $31,108. The revenue $7,367. Experience shows that this line will always be expensive to maintain. A subsidy of $1,946 was paid to a telegraph Line in P E. Island, making "the expenditure for telegraph lines $33,051.