REPORT OF EARNINGS AND EXPENSES OF SOUTHERN BELL TEL. & TEL. CO. EXCHANGES OPERATING IN SOUTH CAROLINA.-Con.

Dividends paid during year. Number direct lines.

Number duplex. lines.

Number party lines.

Total number sta tions, including extension stations and toll stations.

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Residence.

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STATEMENT OF INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE EXCHANGES OPERATING IN THE STATE SOUTH CAROLINA FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1907.

STATEMENT OF INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE EXCHANGES OPERATING IN THE STATE OF S. C. FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1907.-(Continued.)

*Report not received in time for publication, but on file in office.

SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY.

The following is a list of officers of the company connected with the transaction of the business of the company in the State of South Carolina, viz.:

M. F. Plant..

M. J. O'Brien..

T. W. Leary..

. Chairman of the Board

President

Vice-President in Charge of Operating

C. L. Loop.. ..Vice-President in Charge of Traffic and Accounts

G. H. Tilley..

.Secretary and Treasurer, New York

. Assistant General Manager, Chattanooga

Auditor, Chattanooga, Tenn. ..Superintendent, Charlotte, N. C. ..Superintendent, Wilmington, N. C.

Walter Buckner...

The first vice-president performs all the functions that would belong to a general superintendent.

The second vice-president performs all the functions that would belong to a traffic manager.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1907.

Southern Express Company's share of charges on all

matter carried within the state, after allowing and

turning over to the railroad companies their share...$117,042 38 Expenses incidental to the above business, viz. :

Rules Governing Express Companies.

CLASSIFICATION AND RATES OVER LINES IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

See Company's General Instructions, Standard Classification, and Tables of Graduated Charges.

EXPRESS TARIFF-SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS.

Agricultural Implements-The Standard Classification quotes two classes of Agricultural Implements. Bulky implements will be subject to double merchandise rates; others will be charged merchandise rates. The following are bulky:

Cleaners, Cotton Seed; Cradles, Grain, set up; Cultivators, set up; Cutters, Ensilage, Straw and Hay, set up; Distributors, Guano, set up; Drills, Grain, set up; Dusters, Bran, set up; Evaporators, Fruit; Evaporators, Sugar; Fans, Wheat; Horse-Powers, Railroad or Endless Chain; Hullers, Cotton Seed and Clover; Incubators, K. D., packed; Manure Spreaders, set up; Mills, Fanning; Mills, Sugar, with trains; Mowing and Reaping Machines, Binders and Harvesters, whether combined or separate, set up; Planters, Corn and Cotton, set up; Plows, Gang and Sulky; Presses, Hay and Cotton, set up; Purifiers; Middlings; Rakes, Horse, set up; Wheelbarrows, Wood, set up.

Such of these articles as can be carried by express will be taken at double merchandise rates.

CLASSIFICATION OF PERISHABLES, ETC., CARRIED AT LESS THAN MERCHANDISE RATES.

For the purpose of promoting local traffic between points on the lines of this Company, and developing the production of the commodities herein quoted at the same, Agents are authorized to use rates to be found by using the following scale.

Following classification is made:

Class A-To consist of Merchandise.

Class B-To consist of the following: Asparagus, Berries, Butter, Cherries, Celery, Coarse Furs, Dressed Poultry, Eggs, *Fish (fresh), Fresh Meat, Game, Honey (in the comb), Oysters (except in shell), Trees and Shrubs (for planting).