post*fflce anD Ueleatapb Service* 225 



POST-OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE. 



I append a statement containing the number of post-offices, and 

 postal agencies in each of the Mexican states in 1895, and the num- 

 ber of postal pieces transported by Mexican mails from the years 

 1878-1879 to 1894-1895. (See page 225.) 



I have prepared a statement of the earnings and expenditures of 

 the post-office and telegraph services in Mexico during the twenty- 

 seven fiscal years elapsed from July i, 1869, to June 30, 1896. It was 

 not possible to obtain full data of the earnings of the telegraph lines 

 during the first ten years of that period, on account of the defective 

 way in which the books were kept by the Federal Treasury of Mexico. 

 With that exception the data embraced in the following statement is 

 correct, as it has been taken from the official accounts. (See p. 224.) 



POST-OFFICES IN MEXICO IN 1895 BY STATES. 

 STATES. OFFICE POSTAL AGENCIES. TOTAL, 



Aguascalientes ... 5 5 .. 10 



Campeche 8 3 .. n 



Chiapas 7 24 .. 31 



Chihuahua 24 58 . . 82. 



Coahuila 25 26 i 52- 



Colima 2 9 .. n 



Durango 19 42 .. 61 



Federal District i 8 10 19 



Guanajuato 27 38 .. 65 



Guerrero 13 31 . . 44 



Hidalgo 19 43 . . 62 



Jalisco 35 83 . . 1 1& 



Lower California 7 17 .. 24 



Mexico 14 21 . . 35 



Michoacan 22 59 .. 81 



Morelos 9 9 . . 18 



New Leon 18 33 .. 51 



Oaxaca 22 39 .. 61 



Puebla 27 77 i 105 



Queretaro 7 10 .. 17 



San Luis Potosi 18 34 .. 52^ 



Sinaloa 16 28 .. 44 



Sonora 14 75 .. 89 



Tabasco 5 1 6 . . 21 



Tamaulipas 17 36 . . 53, 



Tepic 7 13 .. 20 



Tlaxcala 9 7 .. 16 



Veracruz 36 82 .. 118 



Yucatan 16 40 .. 56 



Zacatecas 20 23 i 44 



Total 469 989 13 1471 



