Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-09-22
THE WORLDS TELEGRAPHS
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Cincinnati Times-Sta
The telegraph system of The world is
SIMPLY marvellous in magnitude, con-
sldering the fact that it practically had
It's beginning IN the present century
There are now in the United States half
million miles of wire in constant use.
Great Britain has la ,0o0miles of lines,
and Germany 10000 miles, with more
than 5000 miles of cable underground,
With the exception of these two coun-
tries, the Morse system is used every
where.
In Great Britain the telegraph is in
corporated with the postal service. and
the government controls the whole sys-
tenn. They have machinery which
works on a different plan from ours.
There Is no noise in an English tele-
graph office; messages are read by the
sense of sight, not of hearing. except
IN the comparatively few offices where
the Morse system is used. France has
10000 miles of lines; British India up
ward of $4,000; Belgium $4,000;
Spain, $4,000; Denmark, $4,000; Nor
way, 10000, China had no wires until
the present year, during which the EN-
peror has suffered to be built some
loo miles of telegraph, Egypt has
5000 miles of lines, aud Persia 5000.
Lines extend from Cairo to the deserts
of Nubia, past Thebes and Memphis, to
khartoum. Alexandria is quite a tel
egraph centre; it is an important cable
station, as well as an outlet for the
South African business. The system
of lines in South Africa-which, by the
way, is very good-connects with its
Alexandria outlet to Europe, via Natal,
Zanzibar, and Mozambique. Russia
has 1900 miles in use, 10000 less
than Germany. Australian lines num-
Der $4,000 miles, including line 1000
miles in length, running through an
almost unknown region of the island
| from Melbourne to Port Darwin. New
Zealand has as many miles of wire AS
| Norway-10, 900.
South America Is now in about the
same position with reference to land
telegraph as North America was thirty
seven years ago, having only q forty
seven mile line between Aspinwall and
Panama, and line from Valparaiso to
Buenos Ayres. Additions are at pres
ent being made to the west coast of
South Africa cable system, which will
greatly facilitate the transmission of
kilograms by way of Central America
and Mexico to Brownsville, Texas
Mexico has 1000 miles Of wire owned
by Mexican capitalists. Canada has
10000 miles. In the territories of the
United States there are nearly 10000
miles OF military telegraph lines in OPP
Grafton, all under control of the govern.
ment.
The length of submarine cable work.
ed at the present day is computed to
be 100000 nautical miles, and new
lines are being projected. The second
line belonging to the new American
cable company (which will probably be
laid by NOveMber) will be the eighth
North Acknowledgment cable. Sub
marine wires are thick in the Mediter-
ranean sea. There are three between
Marselles and the African coast, dis
lance Of 525 miles, and between Alex
andria, Malta, Sicily and Italy, the dis
lance from Malto to Alexandria being
| 1900 miles. They connect Corclca and
Sardinia with Italy, and the Balearic
Islands with Spain, the Islands of the
Grecian Archipelago with Greece, Cy-
prus with Turkey, and extending east
and west, they touch far up the Chinese
coast on the one hand, and up
the Spanish coast on the other, and
thence to England. The Indian Ocean
lines unite Australia, New Zealand,
Army, Yokohama, and Nagasaki En-
gland has Geographic connection with
France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark. Lines ex-
tend from Northern Scotland to the
Orkney and Shetland Islands. Lisbon
and Pcrnambuco are joined by line
via the Madeira and Cape Verde islands.
Only few more lines are required to
complete the cable system of the
world, and we may confidently expect
that very soon all quarters of the great
globe will be thus brought into intimate
relations.