[Newspaper]
Publication: Sacramento Daily Union
Sacramento, CA, United States
vol. 15, no. 2236, p. 2, col. 1
TELEGRAPH LINE TO CARSON VALLEY.—The company organized in Placerville to build this line are pushing ahead with vigor. Stock has been subscribed in that mountain city to the amount of $3,000, and one thousand has been taken in Carson Valley. These sums united will nearly or quite complete the line to Genoa, from which point it is in contemplation to extend it to Salt Lake City. After it is completed to Carson Valley, it is believed that Congress will furnish aid to insure its extension as far as Salt Lake. F. A. Bee, the agent of the company, went to San Francisco yesterday, to purchase the wire, insulators, etc., to put up the line to Carson Valley. This is the initiatory step towards a line of Telegraph from Sacramento to St. Louis, and is, therefore, a move of importance to the city. After the Sierra Nevada has been scaled by a Telegraph Line, people at Washington, and on the Atlantic side generally, will muster up courage and confidence enough in the practicability and utility of a line as to induce them to stir themselves towards starting a line on that side to meet this, which will soon be in operation over the Sierra Nevada, a mountain deemed on the Atlantic almost impassable for any animal except an Indian and a Spanish mule. So thickly lined is the route with timber, that poles will only have to be put up for about five miles. As Sacramento and El Dorado generally work together in these mountain enterprises, and as Sacramento is really interested quite deeply in the result of the enterprise those having it in charge would like to have stock enough subscribed in the city to give her a voice in the management of the line. They desire that Sacramento shall have a voice in the first private California enterprise looking to a direct connection by Telegraph between her and the city of St. Louis.
