Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-10
sac a.Iecaric links in the Chain OF
Nations,
DESCRIPTION OF TIE VARIOUS sUGAtA-
NINE CABLES.

An article on postal tGlegraphs, in tbs
h6iudUrgb Rerjelr, presents IN interesting
- strIneut concerning the submarine tele
graph cables in operation in June, 1870.
The Submarine Telegraph Company,
maintaining communication between Eng
llud and the continent of Europe, owns
and works eleven cables, Of an aggregate
lsnsth of LOO nautical miles, varying
t,onl twsuty-seven to three hundred and
.!xrv. eight nautical miles each. OF those
devon CHI =. five connect England and
France two Eugland and Belgium; two
Eugland and Holland one England, the
lsltud Of Jersey and France, and one Eng
land and North Germany. The Great
Northern Company works about 1910
n4utie,i miles of submarine cable, com
priSiug several lines from England md
Scotland to Russia, through Norway and
SO-eden and Denmark, including land
}ines in the countries mentioned. The
latter company commenced it, operations
in September, 1869 The first marine
cable ia operation between England and
the continent of Europe is twenty -seven
miles long, and was laid between Dover
and Calais in 1851 the other cables men
toned above were laid at various times
subsequently, These lines are worked iu
aoninnotiou with the British land wires,
and on Joint account with the British post
ofice. under the sanction of Parliament.
rha Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Com
pany IL about one hundred nautical miles
in length, extends from England to the
Channel islands, aud was opened in July,
1870 The British government owns three
cables, of au aggregate length of che hun
dred miles, extending between Great
Britain aud Ireland. which have been in |
operation since 1858. The French gov
yamcnt has laid a cable from Spczzia to
Grsiea. ninety miles ia length, which
iss been in operation since 1856. Spain,
in 1861. laid a cable one hundred and fifty
miles in length, from Barcelona to the
Btlrario Isles of Majorca, Miuoroa, etc.
The Angl4-American Telegraph Com
Dauy has two cables extending from Va
ieutia. Ireland, to Hearts Content, New.
3oundland, and thence communication
with New York by submarine cable
eighty-five miles long, laid across the
mouth OF the ST. Lawrence to Cape Breton,
thence across the Strait of Canseau to
Nova Scotia and the United States by the
Neg York, Newfoundland and London
telegraph Company. The first cable is
1852 nautical miles, and the second 1898
miles in length, The first line was put
in operation in July 1866, and the second
in 1869 The Anglo-American, which
laid the first cable, became united with
the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and has
entered into joint purse agreement with
the Freuch Atlantic Company, by which
the Anglo-American receives 62f per
cout. of the gross earnings, and the
French Atlantic Company 36b per cent.
The French Atlantic Company, or the
Societe du Gable Transatlantique Fran
caise, has a wire 3,047 nautical miles long,
extending from Brest, France, to the
Island of st. Pierre, off the banks of New
foundland, and thence to Duxbury, Mass,
and was opened in July, 1869.
The lines to the East Indies have been
laid by English companies, and part of
the route by French companies, and are
AZ follows The Falmouth, Gibraltar
and Malta Company has laid cable OF
2456 nautical miles in length, from
Penzance, Cornwall, England, by way Of
Gibraltar, to Malta, which line was
opened in June, 1870. This company has
working arrangements with the Anglo
Mediterranean and the British Indian
Submarine, forming the continuous line
between PeDzanee, England and Bombay,
a distance of 7076 miles, including 1870
niles of land wires between Alexandria
Snd SueZ. The Angio-Mediterranean
Company has laid two cables from
Malta to Alexandria, the one nine hun
dred nautical miles in length on the
Elreet route, and the other 1160l
miles long, via Tripoh This line was
completed In October, 1868. Tho Rr;t;sb
Indian Submarine has laid a ILL . 600
miles in length from Suez to Bomb, go, "a
line of 1870 miles from AlexanSsyi,, "ua
Suez. This entire line was put in nnou
alton iu June, 1870 IN addition to tha
above there are two other lines In tho
Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean
extension runs frem Malta to Sicily
thence by land to Otranto, and acrcsa the
Gull OF Otranto to Aviona. The sea cable
Is lio miles long, and was opened in No
yemoer' 1907 The Marssilles, Algiers