Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — FOR A PACIFIC CABLE. [ARTICLE]

FOR A PACIFIC CABLE.

Company to lay a Lino From California to Philippine*. Articles of incorporation were filed at Albany having in view the laying of a cable from the Pacldc coast to Hawaii and the Philippine islands. The company w. .l be affiliated with the Commercial Cable company, and all its incorporators are officials of that corporation. The length of the cable will be about 8,500 miles. The part first laid will be from California to the Hawaiian islands, a distance of about 2,200 miles. It is expected tnnt this portion will be laid and in operation within nine months. The time required for the laying of the remainder of the cable from -ue Hawaiian islands to the Philippine islands will depend upon how quickly the cable can be manufactured, but may be completed in two years. According to the articles of incorporat.on the company’s lines are to begin In New York city, although from that point to the Pacific coast the line of other companies may be used. The capital stock of the company is to be SIOO,OOO, divided Into shares of SIOO €"■o. The term of existence of the cempany is fixed at l,oou years.