Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — ROUTE OF THE PROPOSED TRANSPACIFIC CABLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROUTE OF THE PROPOSED TRANSPACIFIC CABLE.

The great transpacific cable projected from the United States to the Philippines will be one of the most important m iia of communication between the civilized nations of the earth. -The plans under consideration contemplate connection with Manila by the shortest possible unite, nnd an examination of the above map will clearly disclose this method. San Francisco is from Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands, a distance of 2,089 miles. From Honolulu to Ualan Island is 2,518 miles; from Ualan Island t 9 Gunm Island is a distance of 1,200 miles, and from Gunm to Manila a distance of 1,300 miles for a cable, but about 1,360 miles for a steamer. By using the Island of Ualan, or Strong’s Island, the cable will get a break in the great distance which it would otherwise have to traverse. The proposed cable will give every day information of juat what is going on in the new American colonies of the far East.