The Daily bulletin., 1889-12-09
THE HAWAIIAN GABLE.
Satisfactory Progress in Land
Itneu..-The CAbio Tor Oahu 70
MOlOkRi on the Way.

Satisfactory Progress ia Land
I.ineu..-The CAbio Tor oahu 60
MOIOkRi on the Way.
The Hawaiian Pacific Cable Co.'S
line.men reached the foot of the
Papahaka Hills, Western Molokai,
en- Saturday, they having completed
over one hundred and fifteen miles
OF submarine and land lines to date.
The poles are up from the above.
mentioned point through Haunaka-
kai and Kaweiato point in sight
of Kamalo on Molokai On Maui
the line is finished from Napili
Cable Hut through Kaanapali, La-
haina, Olowalu, Maalaea Bay, and
Waikapu TO Wailuku, where it inter-
sects the telephone lines TO Waihee,
Kahului, Spreckelsvllle, Paia, and
Hamakuapoko. The newly incor-
porated Maui Telephone Co., II. Z.
Baldwin, President, is building lines
from Kahului Central Station, six
wires seuth'to Paia, Hamakuapoko,
Haiku, Huelo, and Makawao, and
north to connect with Wailuku,
Waihee, Waikapu, and the Hawai-
ian Pacific Cable Co.'S lines, making
over two hundred miles of wire in
operation on Maui alone. The peo-
pie of Honokohau,. Maui, have about
one half the money raised for con-
structing line to Lahaina public
telephone station.
The insulation tests on the Maui
Mololsai cable laid August l4th
show improvement in its condition
by about three thousand ohms per
knot and conductivty very good.
The first cablegram offered for
transmission was by Hawaiian.
The six miles of cable core neces-
sary TO complete the Oahu Molokai
cable left Liverpool, England, Oct.
18th, per steamer Partisan of the
Allan Line. 1t is from the Tele.
graph and Maintenance Co. Of Lon
don and comes in water-tight boiler
iron tanks hermetlcally sealed
This core is the same size as the
Brest-St. Pierre Atlantic cable and
but two thirty-seconds Gin manu-
facturers' parlance) or onesixteenth
smaller than the West African Coast
cables. This type Of cable costs the
West African Cable Co. not to eX-
ceed the sum of two hundred
and nin>ty dollars per mile. II
is iron armured and laid 'i1
depths of from shore to about two
hundred fathoms. An excellent
cable of this iron armored type car
be laid from Honolulu to. the Fara!
lones cable hut, forty miles out from
San Francisco, for about one million
dollars and possibly for nine hun
dred Thousand dollars. A cable
armored with hard Russian hemp is
preferable but more costly at first
This latter type of cable has far les
weight IN sea water and being lndes
tructible, is easily handled a
great depths. The London Pacific
Cable Co., profiting by the expert
ence Of the Anglo-American CABLE
Co. (Which has laid hempen armor
ed cables after having tried iro
armor since 1859, is experimenting
with these cables of low specif
gravity. The tendency in subma
rine cables in exactly the same as il
naval and gun construction, to aban
don unwieldy iron armor for create
speed, longer range, ,and far greater ei
ficiency. A careful examination
the Maui-Molokai cable fails to dc
tect the presence of the teredo na
wallis, the most formidable foe
submarine work of all kinds.
, would appear that the reversin
currents fIom Kilauea arc the onl
enemies to be feared.