Pierre; 9, St. Pierre to North Sydney;
10, Placentia to North Sydney, two cables; 11, St. Pierre to Duxbury;
18, Charlotte's Town to Nova Scotia; 19, Government Cable, North
Sydney to Bird Rock, Madeline Isles, and Anticosti; 21, Halifax and
Bermuda Cable Company's proposed cable to Bermuda.]
The station of the Direct United States Cable Company is situated at
Ballinskelligs Bay, Ireland (2). Its cable was laid in 1874-5, and is
2,565 miles in length. The terminal point on the other side of the
Atlantic is at Halifax, Nova Scotia, from whence the cable is
continued to Rye Beach, New Hampshire, a distance of 536 miles, and
thence by a land line of 500 miles to New York (17).
The Commercial Cable Company's station in Ireland is at Waterville, a
short distance from Ballinskelligs (3). It owns two cables laid in
1885; the northern cable being 2,350, and the southern 2,388 miles
long. They terminate in America at Canso, Nova Scotia. From Canso a
cable is laid to Rockfort, about thirty miles south of Boston, Mass.,
a distance of 518 miles (16), and another is laid to New York, 840
miles in length (15). This company has direct communication with the
Continent by means of a cable from Waterville to Havre of 510 miles
(9), and with England by a cable to Weston-super-Mare, near Bristol,
of 328 miles (8).
The Western Union Telegraph Company (the lessees of the lines of the
American Telegraph and Cable Company) has two cables from Sennen Cove,
Land's End, to Canso, Nova Scotia (4).
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