[Newspaper]
Publication: Los Angeles Star
Los Angeles, CA, United States
vol. 8, no. 26, p. 1, col. 5
The Placerville and Salt Lake Telegraph.
A correspondent of the National, writing from Placerville, Oct. 23d, says in relation to the telegraph:--
“People at a distance have but little idea of the spirit with which this great enterprise is being carried on. In a fire-proof building on Main street in this city, machinery has been erected for over-hauling and re-winding the wires before they are forwarded to the line. The rolls of wire, when they arrive from San Francisco, are unfit for use until they are rendered malleable by heat. For this purpose, immense stacks of it are placed upon piles of wood, and, after being sufficiently burned, are unwound and carefully inspected. It is then rolled into bundles again and dispatched to the mountains. Wagons laden with wire, provisions, and other requisites are constantly loading and departing. Noiselessly, but earnestly, the good work moves on. Neither storm nor fatigue retards its progress, and the day is not far distant when the first great continental barrier will be surmounted, and the lonely valleys of Utah be enabled to speak to the Pacific. To day F. A. Bee and P. H. Lovell left here for the scene of operations, and upon their arrival they will report progress.
