Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13
OCEAN CABLES IN 1909.
owned In Twenty Two Countries, Thci,
Length Is 2Jg,tJ0 Miles.

owned In Twenty. Two Countries, Their
Length Is 25g,iJ0 Miles.
Denmark has a more prominent
place among countries whose capt
.alsts have engaged i'm laying ocean
cable lines than might be expected
from her inferior commercial i'm
portancc. She ranks fourth on the
list. even surprising Germany. The
.euson is that the Great Northern Tel
egrnph company with its offices at
Copenhagen. laid and operates one of
the most important cable systems In
the orient--that which connects
yladivostok with Nagasaki. Shanghai
and Hong Kong. There are In op.
Grafton today 252,43G miles Of ocean
cables. of which only 3S.I0T miles. or
about IL per cent are owned by gov.
ernmcnts. the remainder being In the
hands of private owners.
| Englishmen opened the first cable
line-across the narrow channel be-
tween Dover and Calais on August -.
1SoO-and Englishmen still control u
larger mileage than the capitalists Of
any other country. and more than half
the total length of the submarine lines,
The British cables which connect Lon.
Ion with all parts of the world have a
length of 1Ji.C09 miles. O: which H..
5G3 miles are owned by the govern.
ment. OF the 139. 1856 miles owned by
private companies. the largest mileage
IL in the Australian and oriental lines
The Eastern Extension Australasiar
and China Telegraph company controls
1900 miles and the Western Tele
graph company 1850 miles.
The most important of the British
cable lines are the five that stretcl
across the North Atlantic. and also thu
first line stretched across the Pacific
which connects Vancouver with TIL
Fiji islands. Norfolk island. Queens
land and New Zealand. and which wa
/. opened on December =. 1908. Anon!
the many British lines also are cable'
to South America ana along both o
its coasts. Our country Is second OF
the list with 44,4IO miles Of cable
I nearly all In private hands. the gov
eminent controlling only short mile
; age in Alaskan waters. The most i'm
J. portant are the five lines across til
I Atlantic and the second great Paciti
= cable. completed on July %, 1908. b.
the Commercial Pacific Gable compan
! between San Francisco. Honolulu. Mid
: way island. Guam and the Philippines
i Another great line laid down by Amei
{ lean capitalists Is that on the Paciti
= coast between the Isthmus Of IL
huantepec and Valparaiso. Chill.
= France has the third place with
total length Of 24,O1O miles. Of whic
1OO02 are the property Of the stat
. The most important Of the submarin
connections OF France are the tw
:, lines which connect Brest with til
!. United States. As already mentioned
|, Denmark Is fourth on the list wit
= 04SS miles. Germany lags behind wit
!. O,2SS miles Of cable of which MOI
- than one-thiii Is owned by the govern
!, ment Its most important cable servit
:. Is that between the island Of Borkun
n Tayal and New York city.
The seventeen other countries VINO
- take financial interest In cables hay
>. altogether only 11.131 miles Of line
.. nearly oil Of them owned by Il
!. various governments. The COUNT
a which figures to the smallest cxtel
= in this list Is Bulgaria, with an ocea
. cable about reefourths Of mi
?. long. Roumania beats her neighb'
=. with a cable four and one.third mill
a, lOng.-New York Sun.