*Includes employees in postal, telegraph and telephone services. † Includes employees in postal and telegraph services. Denmark. 10,736,752 68.237 3.259,945 France. 101,877,845 400,065 6,011,230 219,175 107,754,298 Great Britain.. 151,921,500 1,704,400* 19,788,600 Inc. Col. 3 56,334 Mexico. 2.080,386 43,290 1,043,217 95,865,900 Inc. Col. 5 39,918,360 1,005,442 10,750,830 116,665 22,021,373 13,618,682 30,376 7,570,478 8,895,736 12,675 7,094,840 259,321,950 273,429 16,876,093 103,430 4,980,601 56,451,926.18 30,713 29,372,629 307.266 83,506,644 747,629 10,317,820.14 6,201 2,488,239 267,034 1,937,159 76,734,481 476,377 7,174,475.27 8,671,082 182,732 301,845 30,807,505 21,751 328,713.74 ESTIMATED TOTAL MAIL DELIVERED AND COLLECTED BY RURAL DELIVERY CARRIERS ANNUALLY, BASED ON A COUNT IN MAY, 1911. Grand total.. 1,542, 125 345,494 864, 210 118,018 2,406, 335 463,512 2,319,676, 803 296, 168, 279 407, 618, 273 11,377,819 2,727,295,076 307,546,098 RURAL DELIVERY. On June 30, 1911, service was in operation on 41,656 routes served by 41,559 carriers at an annual cost of $37,130,000. The total mileage of rural routes in operation June 30, 1911, was 1,007,772, and the daily travel by carriers was 1,000,277 miles, the averExcluding age mileage per route being 24.19. the cost of substitutes and of toll and ferry service, the average cost per mile traveled was $0.11775. GROWTH OF THE SERVICE. on There were 41.656 routes in operation June 30, 1911; of these 608 routes were operated tri-weekly, being an increase of 108 over the previous year. In 1897 there were 82 routes, for which an appropriation of $40,000 was made; the expenditure that year was $14,840. In 1900 there were 1,259 routes, the appropriation was $450,000, the expenditure $420,433, which was increase of $270,421 over that of the preceding year. In 1905 the number of routes was 32,055, the appropriation $21,116,600, the expenditure an |