Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-07-20
Peaceful ctorie

which overturn States and threaten 10
change the map Of the old world. peaceful
gigantic enterprises are, almost silently,
pushing ahead which, when completed,
will call the world. for a moment, to stand
still with wonder. When the Federal
forces were oeleaguring the fated capital
Of the rebellion, when, later, the vast hosts
rushed precipitately upon the enemy,
when Richmond fell, and the victorious
Union arms proclaimed that civil war was
ended, there were ships aloat carrying
precious cargoes to push forward a vast
enterprise, which. to contemplate, makes
the mind almost doubt its possibility. At
the same time a corps Of scientific and
practical men arrived on this coast, who
vent quietly at work fitting out their
great effort, which soon commenced to at
tract public attention, and the building Of
a telegraph line from Fraser River to
Asiatic Russia, to connect at the mouth
of the Amoor River, with a line thence to
ST. Petersburg and London. was looked
upon as an event soon to be accomplished.
Scarce q year has elapsed since the first
expedition lef, this city, during which,
herculean work has been done in this
peaceful enterprise.
Men, who q few years previous were in
arms to destroy and conquer on the field
of battle, were now bent on subduing ma
tural obstacles, which at first appalled,,
but, schooled as they had been in the cru
chile of fire, they dared every danger by
sea and land, mid the heat Of summer and
the icy bias, Of a high northern winter,
pushing on towards a great and won
drous end which should, On completion,
that Geographic communica-
ton between New York and London was
achieved. The dream of the ancient philo-
sopher, the most licensed musing Of the
poet, the imagery Of the Arabian Nights,
never conceived anything 20 marvellous,
grand, and impressive as this, soon to be
admitted, cold fact.
While all this is being done on the Pa
ci6c, there is another gigantic achieve
ment pushing towards completion, and,
mingled with news from Europe Of armies,
battles, and great revulsions in finance,
we have a simple line in the Eastern dis
patches which that " the Great
Eastern would sail about the thirtieth.'
Scarce a reader gave that paragraph a
thought, though the announcement told
the story of a years work in the mechanl-
cal arts of making and coiling in the hold
of this vast ship the third Atlantic cable.
During the financial crash which swept
over England, shaking the business world
with earthquake force to its very center,
the construction and coiling Of the cable
went on. and soon the experiment will be
tried Of peacefully laying in the depths OF
the ocean q thread, which has for its OBJ
ject the instantaneous connection OF the
old and new world.
The new Atlantic cable resembles that
of last year, differing only in a few re-
spects
The wires, instead of being Of iron,
coated with a preservative compound, will
be galvanized, SO as to do away with the
necessity Of the p~reservative covering.
This change gives the wires greater elon-
CATION, and enables them to accommodate
themselves with greater facility to the
of the yarn. The tar with which
the old cable was covered has also been
done away with. The coating Of the new
one will consist entirely Of hemp. By
these alterations greater Aexibility is given
10 the wire, which is so 1.-the as TO be
Of being twisted around a mans
leg like a rope. Whilst its weight has
been increased by these measures from
seven tons fifteen hundred weight per mile
to eight tons twelve hundred weight, its
breaking strain has been increased in like
proportion, and the cable Of 1866 will Lift
one ton weight more per mile than the
of 1865"
To give an idea of the new cable, we
the following relative to its con-
struction. capacity, etc.:
Conductor-Copper strand. consisting
of seven wires, (six laid around one), and
weighing 800 pounds per nautical mile,
embedded for solidity in Chatterton's
Gauge Of single wire, 'o4s=
ordinary Is guage. Gusge of strand
Extraordinary No. 10 guage.
observation-disclosures percha, four layers
of which are laid on alternately with four
thin layers of Chatterton's Compound.
The weight Of the entire insulation, 400
pounds per nautical mile. Diameter OF
core, .464 /; circumference OF core 1892.
External Professionalism solid wires Of
the aug .095 (No. Is gauge.) drawn
from Webster s. Horsfall's homogeneous
IRON, and galvanized, each wire surround
ed separately by five strands Of white Ma
nilla warn, and the whole laid spirally
round the core, which latter Is padded
with lutte yarn, saturated with preserva-
tive mixture.
Weight in Air-3l cwt. per nautical
mile.
Weight in water-l23 cwt. per nauti-
cal mile.
Breaking Strains tons 2 cwt., or equal
to eleven times its weight in water per
nautical mile that is to say, the cable will
bear its own weight in eleven miles depth
of water.
Deepes. Water to be Encountered
6, 400 fathoms, or less than "a nautical
The Contract Strain-Is equal to eleven
its weight per nautical mile in water
Length of Cable to be Shipped to Com
plete both Lines-2,730 miles.
These gigantic efforts Of human concep-
ton, energy and perseverance are over
and forced INTO the background
of public attention, by wars and rumors
of wars, but still they are pushing for
ward to final consummation. IL is to be
hoped both will be successful, and prove
remunerative in business to the great
minds and hearts which conceived and
on these momentous peaceful en-
terprises. Before the coming month shall
have passed into the record Of time, we
shall have the result Of the "laying Of the
and ere another year is added to
the sum Of this century, the throbbIng
chord of telegraph viii fash the news Of