Arizona republican., 1899-03-10
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Washington, March 9.-(Special.)- The submarine teIegraphs of the world and especially the practicability of a submarine telegraph across the Pa cific are discussed at considerable length in the January number of the Summary of Commerce and Finance, just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics The statement shows that the submarine telegraphs of the world number 1,500. Their aggregate length is 10000 miles; their total cost is es- timated at $250,O00 coo. All the grand divisions of the earth are now con nected by wires, and from country to country and island to island, the thoughts and words Of mankind are in simultaneously transmitted. Beneath all oceans save the Pacific the univer- sal language which this system has created flows uninterruptedly, and man talks as face to face with his fel- low man at the antipodes. Darkest Africa now converses with enlightened Europe or America, and the gree, events of the morning are known in the evening throughout the inhabited world.
 Adding to the submarine lines the land telegraph system by which they are connected and through which they bring interior points of the various continents into instantaneous com munication, tho total length of tele- graph lines of the world is 835. .O0O miles, the length of their single wires or conductors $500, GOO miles, and the total number of messages annually sent over them 365,000,0Q0, or an aver age of 1,00O,O00 each day. Of the TO- 900 miles of submarine tele- graphs, about 150,OOO belong to 35 companies operating the commercial cables, which num- Der about 320; the remainder are most ly short lines controlled by govern ments, and connecting forts, batteries, signal stations, light houses, etc., the aggregate of government lines being about 1 ,150 and their total length about 10000 miles. In addition to this, the governments of the world hold about SQ,OOO miles of cable in stock for war purposes, ready to be laid at @ mo- ment's notice.
 In the short half century since the practicability of submarine telegraphy was demonstrated, the electric wires have invaded every ocean except the Pacific. Nearly a score of wires have been laid across the Atlantic, of which no less than 13 now successfully oper- ate between the United States and Flu rope, while three others span the comparatively short distance between South America and the African and south European coast lines. Through out the Indian ocean lines connect the far east with Europe and America by way of the Red Sea, the Mediterran- can, the western coast of Europe, and the great transatlantic lines The Mediterranean is crossed and recrossed in it's entire length and breadth, by numerous cable lines, and the ''Medit- erranean of America" the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, is traversed in all directions by lines i which bring it's islands and colonies into speaking relations with each other | and with South America, Central | America, the United States, and thence | Europe, Africa, Asia-the whole world. i
 Along the eastern coast of Asia cable | lines loop from port to port and island | to island, receiving messages overland | from eastern Europe by way of the | RuSsia-Siberian land lines and for warding them to Japan. China, Aus tralia, New Zealand, the Straits Set dement's, Hong Kong, and the Philip | pines, and sending others in return | South America is skirted with ble | lines along it's entire border save the i extreme south, where they are brought i into intercommunicatiOn by land lines. 1 Along the entire coast of Africa cables | loop from place to place and colony to colony, stretching along the entire cir conference and penetrating the inter- for by land lines at various points.
 Every body of water lying between the inhabited portions of the earth, with the single exception of the Pa cifc ocean, has been crossed and re- crossed by submarine telegraph lines. Even that vast expanse of water has been invaded along it's margin. sub marine wires stretching along it's west ern border from Siberia to Australia, while it's eastern borders are sllirted with lines which stretch along the western coasts of the two Americas Several adventurous pioneers in Pa