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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:23:21 +0000 (UTC)


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. The most difficult portion of this telegraph, that
through Siberia, is now, according to a recent despatch,
completed as far as Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia. Mr.
Collins, a citizen of the United States, to whom the Russian
Government has given for a period of 36 years the exclusive
right of working this telegraph through the Russian dominions,
has now obtained from the British Government the right of way
through British Columbia. The Western Union Telegraph
Company of the United States are prepared to assume the
construction of the line, and capitalists are ready to supply the
money for carrying out the undertaking. It is intended to continue
the telegraph northward along the western coast of British
America to Behring's Straits, which will be crossed by a
submarine cable 40 miles long, thence along the coast of Arctic
Russia to the mouth of the Amoor River, at which point the
Russian government have agreed to meet the line and connect it
to their own. The new line will not be far from 4,200 miles in
extent, and, when completed, it will unite Europe, Asia, and
America, principally by land. --New York Tribune.

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