Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...success in their business; and breaking down, like many of our railroads in the last few years, were purchased at much less than their cost and stocked into other companies which had been more successful. This tendency to consolidation, originating in necessity, was found desirable from motives of mutual interest, and went on until more than four-fifths of the entire Telegraph lines on the Continent are owned and operated by one Company. These lines extend from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, and from North Sidney, Nova Scotia, to the Pacific Ocean, and up the Pacific coast into the British Possessions, a span East and-West of 4,500 miles, over which it requires four hours and a quarter for the Sun to rise; and the feat has been performed of publishing in the morning papers at San Francisco the markets of London at the close of Exchange hours of the same day. I am, my dear sir, Respectfully and truly yours, NORVIN GREEN. From William E. Everett, the Engineer of the Niagara, in the Expeditions of 1857 and 1858. My Dear Me. Field: On account of illness I have been unable to leave my house for some months, but am improved sufficiently to seek a more mild climate, and all arrangements are made for leaving on Monday next. Therefore it is impossible for me to accept your invitation for the 10th, and with how much regret I am unable to express. Probably there is no one person who had more opportunity to know on how many occasions the carrying out of the plan to connect the Old and the New World by an electric cable would have been abandoned, but for you individually. It was often and often attended by sucli unfavorable circumstances that all others were in despair and disheartened, but you never; and to your...
