Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-10-07
POSTAL TELEGRAPHY
JOHN MACKEY DETERMINED
TO GIVE THE PCDLIC
CHEAP RATES

Last evening John Mackey passe
down on the train and bet
Virginia City and Carson was inter
viewed by = representative of tb
APPEAL.
The last tins Mr.. Nackey visits,
the Comstock he took raj
through ths lower levels and TO,
the next week was as grouty as
mule. Since he has been in Vir
ginia the last time and inspected
the North. end he has been as chip
per ana pleasant as possible auG
talks sacwingly of the improved
appearance Of the mines and thinks
the old ledge is good for more bo.
nanzas yet.
POSTAL rELsGRAPHY
His mind IL centered, however,
On postal teleg-sphy and he talked
| cry freely Or the subject.
Reptile scheme is now fairly
launched, suppose.
| Mackay-Ws have started several
lines and our factory in Ansonia,
Connecticut, is turning out fifty
| miles of steel and copper wire a
day. The wire is copper with a
steel core running through the cen
I ter to give It strength. IL will last
for years. Look at these old iron
| wires waving his hand out Of the
! Ger window.) They wear out and
it keeps .nsn repairing all the
while. They are of very little &C
count. Gar wire is world heater.
Rep.-asny lines in operation
yet?
Mackay Between New York and
Chicago we send 500 messages .
day with four operators xnder the
new system. The dispatches are
fixed on e cylinder aud then it.gees
like fash. We charge Is cents
for twenty words, and my idea is
that such q tariff ia too high. There
is big money in half q cent q word.
/ hope to see the tariff reSuced to
twelve and half cents for twenty
five words. Tho greatest expense
is the delivery, and we expect 10
adopt system by which the dis
patches ce2 be turned over to the
P0stof6css and put into the dsliv-
cry boxes the same as letters. BY
combining the postal telegraph
With the pcstoftices Ia large cities
We cao give the public the cheapest !
system for tie area Of county Gov /
erea ia the world. /
OPERATORS wA0Ks.
ReP.-You will pay high wages
70 opssatorss
Aacksy-We will pay the high
est wages for skilled labor and I
consider that telegraph operator
must be a man Of the highest in
telligsnea. ScHe of the Western
Union mea who have grown DID in
he service get forty dollars a
month. Oar new machines are
abor-saxing and we can afford to
Jay the bes. wages. We can handle
en- times the anaunt Of business
hat the Western Union can and !
will make that extra business by
facing teseg-aphy where poor
aen can use it. GoalG's line capital
zed for over one hundred million
nd it can be duplicated to-day for !
wsn.y million or less. {
SHOT AT GOULD. '
Rep. you consider Gould q
'rmidable antagonist from basi- !
ess standpoint?
Mackey-No, do not he is the 7
orst hated and most over rated
an in New York. He has frighten-
the life oat Of heavy business Ii
en- and they think he can crush q
EN- out if he chooses. This is all .
ambug. Capital is not so power o
| as people think. When a man
8 kept his business as constant i,
saacs to the public and acted as -
9 bully instead of the friend Of a.
) patrons, it takes very little to in
ok him out, provided you give
} patrons to understand that YOU
in the fight to stay. Opposition "a
es have not succeeded because III
people feared that they would pr
l out to Gould, and 80 you see no
y did not dare patronize the new co
Q for fear that after the consoli- ,
ion Gould would revenge him. Hs
and crack on the prices biobor in.