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'10,228,000 passengers were carried, and 417,440,000 kilogrammes of goods. Tiu.'ir revenue amounts to 5,477,000 guilders.
The total outlay upon the State railways up to 1897 was 269,718,000 guilders.
In 1897 the railways had a length ot 1,699 miles, whereof the State owned 898 miles, and private companies the remainder.
Year
Revenue I Expenditure (guilders) (guilders)
Goods carried (kilogrammes)
1890 State Railway Co. . Private railway cos.^
1894 State Railway Co. . Private railway cos.
1895 State Railway Co. . Private railway cos.
1896 State Railway Co. . Private railway cos.
1897 State Railway Co. . Private railway cos.
Passengers carried
14,872,000. 7,833,000 12,431,000 7,300,000
I 19,880,000|l8,244,000 ■ 14,140,000jll, 061,000
20,807,000 17.975,000 15,446,000 11,598,000
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20,665,000 17,752,000 15,679,00011,771, 000
i 21,390,00017,364, 000 I 16,314,000 12,380,000
4,715,000,000 2,376,000,000
5,904,000,000 2,838,000,000
6,134,000,000 3,291,000,000
6,445,000,000 3,293,000,000
6,824,000,000 3,596,000,000
6,664,000 10,306,000
11,682,000 12,705,000
11,921,000 13,387,000
11,102,000 13,680,000
11,009,000 14,013,000
1 In 1S90 one of the private companies was appropriated by the State.
II. Post and Telegraphs. The postal traffic was as follows in the years named :-
Letters
Post Cards
Newspapers and Printed Matter
Parcels
Letters with Money Orders
1893
Internal .
52,609,000
31,075,826
100,428,000
3,707,825
1,112,891
Foreign .
18,875,000
4,832,720
9,913,000
582,578
820,735
1894
Internal .
53,396,000
31,607,786
103,887,000
3,737,235
1,166,557
Foreign .
20,162,000
5,183,915
11,032,000
630,707
871,942
1895
Internal .
56,857,000
34,018,789
112,197,000
3,799,588
1,201,823
Foreign .
22,176,000
5,986,692
11,779,000
698,942
866,987
1896
Internal .
62,170,000
36,322,651
119,481,000
3.859,524
1,166,508
Foreign .
1897 Internal .
23,053,000
6,570,795
13,615,000
778,738
935,927
65,746,000
38,064,220
120,783,000
3,933,982
1,202,268
Foreign .
2.5,536,000
7,251,559
13,796,000
864,403
940,403
The average number of letters and post-cards per inhabitant was 27 '6.
The receipts of the Post Office in 1897 were 8,783,090 guilders, the ex- penditure 6,936,152 guilders.
There are several private telegraph lines but most of the lines are owned by the State. The length of State lines on Dec. 31, 1897 was 3,598 miles, the
