Telephone statistics show business development in South America

Striking figures showing the development of South and Central American Republics are made public as a result of a survey by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. These statistics, which were prepared with the cooperation of the various governments, cover the telephone and telegraph systems of all the countries south of the Rio Grande. Some of the conclusions reached from the survey are that in the Southern countries the telephone is far from being the universal means of communication that it is in this country and that the main development there is in the big cities, the other areas being very poorly served. The telephone network is about a hundred times as dense in this country, as a whole as it is there. In point of the number of telephones per hundred of population, the service here is over thirty times as good.