Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-05-07
Tcicgraphs 10 Europc--Thc Ar.
lantIc and siberian Routes

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= lFrom the N. Y. journal of Commeree1
, MIR. Field has already obtained sub
: scriptions OF more than $3.50 900 to tn,
: Atlantic cable enterprise. The subscri
bers number over three hundred of ou,
leading merchants and business men,
5 The latest adviccs from England state
that over s 900, 900 has been subscribed
, there, and that no doubt existed as to the
raising the balance of the levy before il
, is wanted. That the great international
= undertaking will now be proceeded with
at an early day is beyond question, as
the sum fixed upon by the company at
the basis OF operations-Sl 800, ,000-is
T now so nearly raised. All the SURVEYS
having been made, it only remains to
construct the cable and lay it. Expert
ments are being conducted in England
for the purpose of ascertaning the com
parative merits of steel, flax, and one or
two other articles in the external struc
ture of the cable, with view to obtain
the best possible combination Of strength
and compaclness, although the kind now
in use is perfectly adapted for the Allan.
tic cable, as well as for the great Euro.
pean submarine lines. Mr. Field has re .
ceived from Glass, Elliot Il Go. a curious
and instructive collection of specimens
of all the cablcs-thirty one in NUM- ber-
hitherto laid by them. They illustrate
progressive steps of improvements which
have been made in this branch of applied
science.
One more successful submarine cable is
now to be added to the long list. 1t is
a single line which has Just been laid be-
tween Sardinia and Sicily, distance of
2l1 miles.
The same paper says : A few days ago
a message of about twenty, five lines was
sent from San Francisco to st. Peters
burg oia New York and the steamer to
England, and thence telegraphed to its
destination. A reply was obtained in 81
days, nearly all of which was consumed
in the voyage across the Atlantic. The
primary object was to demonstrate the
practicabiity Of sending messages on
business between the extreme end of the
telegraph on the Pacific coast and the
edge of the business world of Europe, in
the depth of winter. In noticing this ex-
traordinary performance, the Ata CaH-
fornian remarks as follows:
"There is every probability that, before
great while, we shall be in communica-
ton with Europe by way of British Col
umbia and the Russian territory on the
Pacific. During the coming spring and
summer, a telegraph line will be compile
ted to Portland, Oregon. The wire and
insulators are on hand in the store room
of the State Telegraph Company, and
the poles partly set up. There is ev-
cry reason to believe that the line will be
extended also this season from Portland,
via Puget Sound, to Victoria, in Van.
couver's Island.
"The Russian government has compile
ted line of telegraph as far as Irkutsk,
Central Siberia, and from reliable au-
thority we learn that that government
Will strive to complete the wire to the
mouth of the Amoor River this coming
summer. Should these lines, then, be
completed as herein stated, the gap to be
filled in between the Russian Possessions
and Victoria will not long remain open.
We look forward to continuous line of
telegraph from New York to London via
San Francisco, before the successful lay
ing and working of an Atlantic Cable.
The Overland Telegraph has worked
through the SHOWS and storms of two
winters, and has proven that they are not
insnrmountable Obstacles"
lrkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia,
is the point at which the whole of the
overland trade from Nshni- Novgorod,
Moscow, and st. Petersburg must become
concentrated, and will soon be, if it is
not already, connected by railroad with
Tschita, the highest navigablo spot on
the Amoor for steamers, and distant from
the Pacific Ocean 1000 miles. I he in
termediate territory "a vast tract con,
tanning a population of about $40, 900,
the whole of which is subject to the Rus
sian Emperor endowed with liberal
commercial system and opened to immi-
grafton on proper and reasonable toot.
ing, will soon become one of the most
interesting and important countries in
Asia, and cannot fail to develop its re-
sourses with benefit to the Emperor and
the trade of other nations.
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