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heaviest is the Anglo-American Company's 1894 cable, the length of which is 1,845 miles, with a core of
G.P. Owing, however, to the great length of the French copper cable, it will not be possible to transmit more than, say, 90 letters per minute simplex and 170 duplex; the Anglo-American cable working at about two-and-a-half times those speeds. It will be seen from this comparison how severely the great length handicaps the earning power on capital cost. The cable, which is not yet opened for traffic, was inanufactured in France by the Compagnie Générale des Téléphones.
No. 13.
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. to the PACIFIC CABLE COMMITTEE.
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C'.,,
Dear Sir,
January 17, 1900. I HAVE to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday's date inquiring as to what undertaking this Company will be prepared to give as regards the forwarding from Montreal to England of Trans-Pacific Cables. This is a question which my President alone can answer, and I am sending a copy of your letter out by to-day's mail to Montreal, and will lose no time in forwarding to you a reply as soon as it reaches me.
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Company would be able to enter into a formal agreement that all unrouted telegrams sent from this side by this Company's cables for the Pacific cable should be forwarded from the station on the Atlantic coast by lines laid throughout in British territory, and that all the employés of any Foreign Company through whose hands the messages so forwarded would pass should be British subjects.
In answer I am desired by the Directors of this Company to say that, upon satis factory terms and conditions being agreed to, they are quite ready to enter into such a contract, and for your information I beg to enclose herewith a letter, dated 21st August last, from the Chairman of the Company to the Colonial Secretary, stating more fully what arrangements the Company is prepared to make for the purpose of securing an all 'British route for the traffic in question.
I assume,
I note that your enquiry is limited to unrouted traffic from this side. however, that any contract relating thereto would secure to the Company a due share of the traffic from the other side,
I am, &c..
Enclosure in No. 15.
J. H. CARSON,
Manager.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
ITTICO.885
No. 14.
I am, &c.,
HARRY MOODY,
London Secretary.
COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY to the PACIFIC CABLE COMMITTEE.
(No. 1190.)
DEAR SIR,
Bishopsgate House, 55 and 56; Bishopsgate Street Within,
London. E.C.,
January 18, 1900.
In reply to your favour of the 16th instant. I am directed by my Head Office to say, in reply to the enquiries made through you by the Pacific Cable Committee, that the Commercial Cable Company is considered in a sense a British Company by reason of the following facts:—
1st. The Company exists in Canada by special charter.
2nd. A large number of its shares and a large amount of its bonds and debenture
stock are owned in Great Britain and Canada.
3rd. All its Trans-Atlantic cables land on British and British Colonial soil, and
are thus under British control.
4th. Five of its Directors and almost all its employees are subjects of Great
Britain and its Colonics.
5th. The Company's repairing steamer is a British ship and flies the British flag. 6th. Messages transmitted by the Company between Great Britain and Ireland
and Canada never leave British Territory.
No. 15.
SIR,
The Anglo-American Telegraph Company. Limited,
26. Old Brond Street. London. E.C., In further reference to my letters of the 9th May and 23rd June last, and to the
August 21, 1899. assurance contained in the letter of the Under Secretary for the Colonies, dated the 14th ultimo, that arrangements will be made to secure an alf British route between the United Kingdom and Vancouver for telegrams passing over the proposed Pacific cable, I have the honour to submit for consideration the following information as to arrangements which this Company is prepared to make and carry out so far as concerns that portion of the route which is to connect the United Kingdom with the Dominion of Canada at Montreal.
The Anglo-American Telegraph Company, Limited, is prepared:
1. To appropriate one of its Atlantic Submarine Telegraph Cables between Valentia, Ireland, and Sydney (Cape Breton) to the preferential, or if the volume of traffic warrants it--the exclusive transmission of the Pacific cable traffic.
2. To provide an all-Canadian land line connection sufficient for the same traffic
between Sydney (Cape Breton) and Montreal.
The cable to be appropriated would be one of the four working Transatlantic: Submarine Telegraph Cables which are the property of this Company, and it would be worked solely by British subjects. –
The land lines to form the proposed connection run from Cape Breton by way of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, and are severally the property of:-
(1) The Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company,
(2) The New Brunswick Telegraph Company, and (3) The Dominion Telegraph Company,
and they are all under the control and operation of the Great North-Western Telegraph Company, which is a Canadian Corporation.
shall be glad to be favoured with an early intimation that Her Majesty's Govern ment are prepared to arrange for the transmission of the traffic in question by the route above indicated.
I have, &c.,
I ah, &c.,
FRED. WARD,
Manager in England.
To the Right Honourable
Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.. &c., &c., &c.
F. A. BEVAN,
Chairman..
ANGLO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY to the PACIFIC CABLE
COMMITTEE.
Anglo-American Telegraph Company, Limited,
26, Old Broad Street, London, E.C., DEAR SIR,
January 23, 1900. I AM in receipt of your letterf enquiring on behalf of the Pacific Cable Committee whether, in the event of the proposed cable between Canada and Australia being laid, this
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No. 16.
MY DEAR MERCER,
MR. LAMB to MR. MERCER.
Post Office, January 23, 1900.
I LAVE had search made in the French technical papers, and on page 383 of the "Annales Télégraphiques of 1898" we have found the following information about the Brest-Cape Cod Cable":-
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