[Newspaper]
Publication: Sacramento Daily Union
Sacramento, CA, United States
vol. 17, no. 2553, p. 2, col. 1
Telegraph to Salt Lake. --The President of the Placerville and Humboldt Telegraph Company, F. A. Bee, informs us that the Company has material on the other side of the mountain for putting up about forty miles more of the line. It is the intention of the Company to build their line directly across the Great Basin, starting from Genoa, and striking somewhere in the neighborhood of Utah Lake. The distance by that line will not exceed four hundred miles to Provo City. The Company calculate to put up a section of one hundred and fifty miles within a few weeks. The plan upon which the officers operate is to fix upon a certain point to be reached, make an estimate of the cost, and then exert themselves to get stock enough taken to complete the work that far. By this plan they have no more stock out than is required to build the line to the point eon tern plated. When one section is completed, they are then ready to begin another—the work to be done on the same system.
An effort is now being made to raise the requisite funds to build the hundred and fifty miles. Up to this time Sacramento has really done but little towards promoting this worthy enterprise. It is one in which this city is deeply interested, as she is in all the movements to improve the Central route. She ought to subscribe liberally to the stock of this Company, and thus secure the speedy completion of the line to Salt Lake. The stock will pay a large interest at no distant day.
An application was made at the last session of Congress to obtain assistance from that body, which came near succeeding. In the Senate, the Committee on Post Offices and Roads reported unanimously in favor of paying the Company $50,000 annually for ten years the Company conceding to the Government certain privileges. The report was made only ten days before the adjournment; had there been time, it is believed the bill would have passed. The preference was given to this Company over two others, because it had a line in working order across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the next session the hill will undoubtedly pass through Congress; and if it does, the telegraph will be extended to St. Joseph in time for the operators to telegraph the result of the Presidential election in 1860 to the DAILY UNION.
