Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1886-02-20


A writer has truly said that nations,
like individuals, can not i've tor them
selves alone, neither can they increase
in wealth, education and power with
out exerhng an influence upon other
nations. This is fully exemplitied in
Che application of the discovery of
Morse in all countries Of the world,
even where intelligence is clouded.
Tunis, the most benighted of all coun-
tries ola,Taing civilization, quickly
adopted the telegraph system, which
In 1884, had SIX hundred miles of line,
The entire length of telegraph lines
open for public business in the world,
aggregated about 100000 miles in
1884, which does not include railway,
government private and telephone
lines. II should be borne in mind that
this represents only miles Of line, not
of wire, The aggregate length of tel.
ephcne wire in 1884 was over 100000
miles.
While to Morse is due the applica-
ton of electricity to telegraphy, there
is no doubt but that two hundred
years before the American idea was
successfully applied it was conceived
BY Galileo, who, in one of his dialogues
on the nyal astronomical systems, re-
ferred to a secret art, by which,
through the sympathy Of a magnetic
needle, it would be possible to con-
verse across a space OF two or three
thousand miles. A hundred years
later the method of conveying intel
ligence along a small wire by means
of electricity was referred TO as feast
bic in letter in a Scots magazine.
Telsgraphy, therefore, is one of the
benefits America has conferred upon
other nations, and while that is fact,
we must acknowledge our obligation
t0England for the idea OF railroads
and to the Assyrians for our canals;
for our idea of newspapers we credit
the Republic of Rome; the beginning
Of modern newspapers are traeeable
to Germany and Venice in the 18th
century. In 1880 there was but one
fGwspaper-Public 0ceurrences-pub-
lished in America. The first west of
the Mississippi was the Missouri Ga
zette, Row the st. Louis Republican.
In 1920 there were no canals west of
the Atlantic, nor were there any rail-
roads in the United States before 1926.
The telegraph is a conception of 1843,
while the telephone does not ante
Date 1876.
We cannot enumerate in behalf Of
other countries, but must content our
selves with naming Doctors Norton
and Jackson, of Boston, who intro
duced those an@sthetiCs, now in com
mon use, which enabled the knife to
pass through the quivering nerves
without pain to the patient; Of Whit
ney's invention of the cotton gin which
eliminated the seed from cotton and
which hitherto was limited to the slow
and difficult work of separating the
cotton from the seed by hand. His
invention at once greatly reduced the
price of cotton fabrics. Raw cotton,
before the invention of the cotton gin,
was worth forty cents per pound; of
Fulton's application Of steam for pur-
poses of navigation; of Dewitt Gin
ton and Edison.
The carrying capacity of American
railroads is only a fraction less than
that of the whole OF Europe. Our
gold and silver production increased
from S1,SO0,OOO in 1876 TO $73, 700.
000 in 1880. North America is a great
confederation of states, but it cost
billions of dollars and the enrolment
of 2,653,000 soldiers in the Union army
to preserve its integrity.