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THE LOPFODEN FISHERY IN 1880. 



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Table VII shows tlie number of telegrams sent and received at the 

 above-named 12 stations between January 1 and April 30. The state- 

 ment is a summary kindly communicated by J. B. Lie, inspector in the 



district of Tromso : 



Table VII. 



Stations. 



!2iS 



Digermulen . . 



Skroven 



Svolvser 



Vaagen 



Hopen 



Henningsvsor 



Stamsund 



TJre 



Balstad 



Snnd 



Reino 



Sorvaagen . . . 



Number of telegrams dispatched from January 1 to April 30. 



January. 



18 



30 



351 



327 



74 



271 



184 



25 



236 



21 



35 



55 



17 



28 



266 



212 



46 



197 



109 



13 



144 



25 



16 



58 



February. 



20 

 342 

 708 

 961 

 475 

 776 

 700 



95 

 345 

 126 



95 

 218 



24 

 193 

 448 

 539 

 181 

 474 

 374 



76 

 188 



97 



83 

 116 



March. 



138 



874 



1,594 



1,690 



477 



1,050 



1,112 



239 



614 



302 



215 



265 



116 



541 



1,084 



1,080 



352 



949 



1,090 



243 



425 



263 



218 



197 



1, 627 1, 131 4, 861 i 2, 793 | 8, 570 6, 564 

 2,758 I 7,"654 i 15,T34 



April. 



93 

 245 

 641 

 819 

 188 

 559 

 320 



84 

 378 

 267 

 198 

 247 



4, 039 2, 954 



Total. 



62 

 185 

 487 

 539 

 120 

 371 

 284 



70 

 278 

 200 

 173 

 185 



6,993 



1880. 



2,438 

 5,579 

 6,167 

 1,913 

 4,647 

 4,179 

 845 

 2,608 

 1,301 

 1,033 

 1,341 



147 

 2,087 

 4,316 

 6,032 

 2,011 

 5,626 

 3,530 



651 

 2,259 

 1, 132- 

 1,011 

 1, 398 



32,539 i 30,200 



+ 2,339 



For comparison the number of telegrams dispatched during the fish- 

 ing-season in the last three years is appended : 



The number of telegrams exceeds that of last year by 2,300. The in- 

 crease is marked at stations in East Loffoden, and, as to time, during 

 the month of March. 



In my report for 1878, as well as in that of 1879, I stated that the 

 number of lines was too small for the amount of correspondence, a view 

 which was shared by the telegraph department, which therefore in both 

 of these years solicited Parliament for the necessary license to establish 

 a new wire between Ure and Henningsvaer, but in vain. I must there- 

 fore this year again emphasize the necessity of this line, for under ex- 

 isting circumstances the detention of messages, which is essentially 

 due to the want of a sufficient number of wires, is frequently highly 

 perceptible and has occasioned considerable loss of both time and money. 

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