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     and highways in all directions. The roads generally are 
     
     kept in good condition and substantial bridges—some of 
     
     them steel—span the streams. These public works are 
     
     maintained by legislative grants and are under the general 
     
     control and supervision of the Commissioner of Public 
     
     \Vorks. The Province is divided into Road Divisions in 
     
     charge of Road Inspectors and Overseers ; and these divisions 
     
     are subdivided into thirty-five road machine districts of one 
     
    
   
   
    
     hundred miles each—the roads being mainly repaired by 
     
     machine. A road machine operates in each district, and a 
     
    
   
   
    
     road-maker is in charge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To assist in the maintenance of these public works, an 
     
     annual tax of $1 on men and 25 cents on horses (with 
     
     certain exceptions)—exclusive of incorporated communities 
     
     which keep up their own roads—is imposed. 
     
    

    
     Telegraphic communication is maintained by 
     
     the cable of the Anglo-American Telegraph 
     
     Company, 12 miles long, between Cape Traverse and Cape 
     
     Tormentine—the oldest cable in America, having been laid 
     
     in 1852.—-and 27 other ofiices of this Company are established 
     
     throughout the Province and along the Railway. The land 
     
     line is 130 miles long. The system also includes one mile 
     
     of cable under the Hillshorough River at Charlottetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Telegraphs 
     
    
   
   
    
     A telephone system of over 500 miles, 
     
     reaching almost every important point, is 
     
     also in existence. Mails are despatched daily to the Mainland 
     
     and weekly to Great Britain; while advantage is taken of 
     
     intervening opportunities to Europe via New York. There 
     
     are good postal facilities throughout the Province, oflices 
     
     being established at intervals of three or four miles. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tele bones, etc.