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From: "Rick J" <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:17:47 GMT
References: <cahgvp$emv$1@pcls4.std.com>


"Dennis Ahern" <> wrote in message
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>
> From The Cork Examiner, 18 May 1864 -
>
> TELEGRAPH TO AMERICA.--The necessary arrangements for
> another attempt to lay a submarine telegraph between Ireland
> and North America have been made, and the Atlantic Telegraph
> Company are more sanguine than ever that the experiment to be
> undertaken in the spring of 1865 will be a complete success. By
> the time that the Atlantic Telegraph Company is ready for its
> grand enterprise a second and entirely different line of
> telegraphic communication between Europe and America will
> approach, if not reach, its completion. This is the line running
> across Siberia, thence connecting with Russian America, thence
> passing through British Columbia, and ultimately reaching our
> Pacific States.

History shows that line was never built. Interestingly, I frequently drive
to Bellingham, in Washington State just south of Canadian Brder.

On Telegraph Road there is a plaque giving history of this project.

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