Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, Brooks mentioned

The Atlantic and Pacific Line from Chicago to

Omaha.

THE new line of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company from Chicago to Omaha, by the route of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, has been completed and is in operation. This gives the A. & P. Company communication direct from New York to the Pacific Coast over its own wires. Heretofore the connection between Chicago and Omaha has been made over a line leased by the Western Union Telegraph Company to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. This line has been built under the personal superintendence of Mr. George H. Bliss, of Chicago, and has been put through in a very reasonable time, and has been thoroughly and substantially built - Brooks' Insulator having been used. The company are to be congratulated on this important addition to their facilities. At Grinnell, Iowa, by means of the new line, the A. & P. Company connect with the Hawkeye Telegraph Company.

The following is a list of the offices opened by the A. & P. Company on this new line:

Washington Heights, Ill. Sheffield, Ill. Joliet, Ill. Genesee, Ill. Morris, Ill. Moline, Ill. Omaha, Neb. Rock Island, Ill. Lasalle, Ill. Davenport, Iowa Wilton, Iowa Des Moines, Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Stuart, Iowa Marengo, Iowa Atlantic, Iowa Grinnell, Iowa Avoca, Iowa Mitchellville, Iowa Council Bluffs, Mo.

On Hawkeye Company's line:

Mason City, Iowa Marshalltown, Iowa Rockwell, Iowa Gilman, Iowa Hampton, Iowa Grinnell, Iowa Ackley, Iowa Searsbow, Iowa Steamboat Rock, Iowa New Shara, Iowa Eldora, Iowa Oskaloosa, Iowa Union, Iowa Eddyville, Iowa Liscomb, Iowa Coal Field, Iowa Albion, Iowa Albia, Iowa