The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-22
The New submarIne Cable.


Philadelphia and Havana are now connected
by an ocean telegraph, and it is probable that
the end of the present year will find us in in
West India group; and that very short time
only viii elapse before we shall have, by the
same means, daily reports from the Cape OF
Good Hope and the Republic of Liberia. The
first line OF the long proposed scheme ofan ocean
AMERICA and the African Coast has been success s
fully laid. This enterprise was conducted by
the International Ocean Telegraph Company.
q. %riRRas scrymseP seeG a1G Afres Pei JT, Genes Genes
Guently associated with them and assuming
charge as President of the Company. 1t first
built q line through Florida four hundred miles
in length, which is already operating from here
to Key West The Cuban submarine cable was
10 ~ direct oT HayRaRS E% T6e
work of submerging 1t began during the first
part of the present month, but on The 7th inst,
way between Key West and Havana. After
several days spent In graphing, the wire was
splice made, and the great work accomplished
The several islands of the group, including
within short distances of each other, and great
inducements have been made TO secure
the extension, Ine government nm OF Spain
Ocean Telegraph Company the exclusive right
for forty years to lay all cables between Cuba
raj OF Cuba was directed 10 afford every facility
in carrying out the project. The State of Florida
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a period of twenty years. which was further
ratified and sanctioned by the Government of
the United States. The Venezuelan Govern
ment has entered into contract with parties
to connect that country with European lines by
means Of telegraph sao cable cal TO G16a I The Coy
three years, ana have its dispatches sent free.
A very liberal grant has also been made by the
line between Buenos Ayres and the Chilian
frontier, which, in connection with the tele-
graph system of Chill and the projected coast
line of the Hipano- American Inter -Communi-
cation Company from Valparaiso to Panama,
place the southwest and eastern coasts of South
America in immediate communication with
the West India Islands, the United States, and
Europe. HdrpeT'S Weekly says:-"The tmpor-
tance of these lines to the merchants of this
country cannot be calculated. The trade of the
West Indies amounts to nearly $500, 900 600 year,
and, partly owing TO the superior means OF
communication susoalHeu py DFe%V SS ~, 6t5Stn ~ "a
transacted directly by English merchants. The
Isthmus of Panama Is the atural focus of the
whole trade of the Pacific. The commerce of
the southwest coast, which, according to all
laws political and geographical, should belong
to as, is now almost entirely In the hands OF the
European commercial communities, attributa-
ble mainly, to the same liberal system of postal
connections whereby England fosters indirectly
the establishment of markets for her principal
staples. Were our merchants placed In tele-
graphic communication with tne West India
bia Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chilli and Argen-
tine, there would be no reason why fair
average of the commerce of these countries
should not be directed to US. The success of
the line to Cuba, and its extension TO the other
islands and to Brazil, Panama, etc., will un-
doubtedly greatly affect this commerce in favor
OF American merchants"
DESCRIPTION OF THE CUBAN SUBMARINE CABLE
The cable was made by the India Rubber and
Gutta Percha Telegraph Company of London
The company guarantees the working OF the
cable for ifteen years, its qualities being con-
sidered superior to those of any other sub
marine cable laid hitherto, experience having
furnished many valuable improvements The
cable is composed of seven copper wires, covered
with three coats OF india rubber, which are again
covered with hemp, the whole being coated with
galvanized iron, Wirecoated with zinc The
shore end OF the cable is two inches in
thickness, Weighing at the rate OF two
tons per mile laid to depth of l50 fathoms
Connected with this piece, which is one
and half mile long, is medium-sized cable,
an inch and two lines in thickness, fourteen
miles in length, weighing one and three-quar-
ters of a ton per mile, and sunk TO the depth OF
2OOfathoms. The same proportions are observed
on both ends of the cable, the centre cable
being thinner, having q diameter of ten lines,
weighing one and quarter ton per mile, and
submerged to the depth Of 400 fathoms. The
mmunication from Key West to Punta Rosa,
through the Florida Bay, is another cable, l33
miles long, nine lines in thickness, weighing
three-quarters of ton per mile. The entire
submerged length of the cable is l9l miles.
IMPORTANT SUBMARINE WIRES, OR TELEGRAPH
CABLES.
The following is believed to be a nearly COM
plete list OF the more i'm portant submerged or
cable lines which have been laid, and which, so
far as known, are now in operation, or, as In
case OF one OF them az least, suffering an inter-
ruption which is probably but temporary The
total number here given is sixty-two-
TTs eeooraosco, HscO@ ES s q Ssi,9a SsS ,sG1 s
Layteg 9osOs. mics. dgetors So Seg a5oat ''0''
1SSa 20 sii 1s years
1858. Dover 70 ostend-........ 80H 6 ID years.