Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-13
TELEGRAPH RATES.
Il Costs to Commpnicate with Mossam.
dies or Bassidore.

Il Costs to Communicate With Mossame.
Dies or Bassidore.
Telegraph rates vary greatly in
this country owing to the immense
distances. In many of the smaller
countries of the old world a uniform
rate. is made for any point within
the given country, but it would be
manifestly unfair to the American
telegraph companies if they were
compelled to send a message from
New York to San Francisco for the
same rate that they charge for a
message from New York to Jersey
City or from Chicago to Evanston.
As a rule, the minimum rate for
a day message of ten words in this
country is 25 cents. A great many
points in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa and
other states in the Mississippi val
ley may be reached from Chicago
for this rate. Any point in Illinois
may be reached for IS cents. A
message to Boston costs 50 cents,
while New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore have a 40 cent rate. The
highest rates from Chicago are those
for points in southern Florida-s5
cents. 1t costs only rs cents to tele-
graph to any point in California or
Oregon, and the rate for New Or
leans is so cents.
Few persons who have not expert
mented with telegraph tolls appre.
ciate the expense of cable commune
cation. Cable rates are so much per
word instead of per message Of ten
words, and the figures are very
much higher. Messages to England,
France and Germany cost 81 cents
per word from Chicago. Belgium's
rate is SO cents, Holland and Italy
SO cents, Austria 40 cents, Greece A
cents, Egypt, So cents; Switzerland
So cents, Sweden 45 cents, Turkey
43 cents and So cents, and Russia 40
cents.
The lowest rate is 40 cents per
word for messages in Havana. Other
Cuban points ire higher, and no
town in the West Indies outside Of
Cuba can be reached for less than
e1.o5 per word. Messages to Puerto
Rico cost $1.s5 per word.
Central American rates range
from so cents (Guatemala) to rs
cents COSTA RIGA and Nicaragua).
South American rates take a big
jump upward. Brazilian messages
cost from $1.35 to 81 81 per word.
British Guiana points cost $2.17.
Communication with Australia is
expensive. Queensland reaches the
highest figure. 81. SO cents per word,
while South and Western Australia
rates are s1.47.
Messages to China cost %. 02
per word, and the same figures
apply to Korea. Japanese rates ire
e2.27 per word, Java &. SO, Formosa
e2.27, India 81. 20, Madagascar 81. 70,
New Zealand 81. SO, Philippine is.
lands 81 81, Siam 81. Al.
African rates are lowest for points
along the Mediterranean and are.
highest along the west coast. Al
geria can be reached for SO cents
per word, the minimum rate for the
dark continent. East African rates
are 81. "a and $1.64, while South At
rican points range between $1.5s
and s1.7O. West African points, as
q rule range above So, while it costs
$500 to send a word to Mossamedes
from Chicago-more than to reach
any other telegraph station in the
world direct. However, a message
to Bassidore or Lingah costs the
Chicago sender $1.19 per word to
Jask, Persia, and SLIT extra for
special dispatch boat line from that
point.-Chicago Times-Herald.