The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-27
MEXICO TO CUBA BY CABLE.

Route Of the New Cable from Vera Cruz to
Cape San ARtoine--Chserins Prospects OF
It's sucress-Another Ship for the Yankee
Tug TO Take ie Tow.
Ga the 18th OF December, 1870, President Juarez,
OF the republic OF Mexico, promulgated the decree
which had previously passed Congress, authorizing
Henry e. Norton, OF the city OF New YORK, to lay a
cable rom whatever point OF the Mexican coast he
might elect and to build local lines, connect
he republic Of Mexico. with that OF tho United
States The project was SO favorably received In
Congress that tho vote stood l72 for and only q
against. The grant Is for fifty years, authorizing
the company to take all the public land
ana material necessary for the construction
OF the work. IL Il further decreed that all material
reqailed shall be imported free Of duty, while the
enterprise shall be free from all taxation for the
term OF the grant. The enthusiasm created by tn IS
new enterprise Mexico Is SO great that the Cover
hors Of the various ttoral states through which the
telegraph viii have to pass are favorlng the Idea OF
sUpsipiziNu THE LINE
with an annual contribution, ana already tue State
OF Yucatdn has published u decres giving 10 the
company an annual subsidy OF $4,000 for the term
of ten years, while 1t expected that the States OF
Campeche, Chlapa. Tabasco. oajaca, Vera Cruz and
Tamaulipas viii do the same.
The line, as 1t Is proposed, viii start from Vera
Ciuz, paisS ANarauO GOWN u tie CuaZoeuMcOS river
TO Minatitan, where 1t will unite with the Tehuan-
tepec line, crossing into the State OK 0ajaca, from
thence to Laguna, Isa del Carmen, TnoiscO, Cam
Deche, and thence 10 Meritta, III Yucatan following
the coast up TO san Felipe where 10 VIA connect With
the cable that VIII from the Cape CJt0cuc the
extreme point north OF tic peninsula oi iacalan,
landing al Cape san Antonio III the island OF Cuba,
from whence there already cable comm unscutlon
10 the
COAST OF FLORIDA
Eighteen months were given 10 the company to
complete the wOrh, and AS security Mr.. NORTON had
to deposit with tue Mexican Minister at Washington
the sum OF $4,000 III gold which Will loo forelteI II
the terms OF the decree are not complied with On
the 4th OF May, already announced la the HERALD
Q company was formed or our best men Robert r.
Livingston beng elected President Ma,ur General
W. r Smith Vice President aud General Marshall
Leerts superintendent Ecstnecr SO That the enter.
prise promises fairly 70 De a success,
Inc materiaI. ocnent 10 Mexico VIII be very great
IOr not Only will they De brought into close coinmr.
nlcation with the United STAGES, and consequently
with
=, THE REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD;
but 1t viii have local elect upon those States bor
derlng on the Mexican Gulf, BY bringing them into
Az present tine mani generally takes ron twelve to
sixteen days. Another important Item Will be. the
communication between these States ant tho Island
OF Cuba, for there IS comparatively more business
the Island OF Cuba than between Vera cruz ana the
United States. THIS wlll be seen iron,
the business done between Mexico and
other countries, which amounted undo the latest
computations to s24,0oo,oea. SIX millions only be-
lonaed to the United States, and the rest TO Cuba,
England, Germany ana France. IL Is confidently
predicted That Ivy closer contact the current OF COM
DIRECTED TO Us,
and hence this Geographic enterprise Will be link
10 BRING us nearer to country possessing SO many
hidden treasures. Foreign enterprise, headed by
men Of note, Is what alone Ii needed to accom-.
piish II.