Private Companies.

No. of

Cables with One or More

Cores.

Length of

Cables in Nautical

Miles.

African Direct Telegraph Company

10

3,031.000

Amazon Telegraph Company

15

1,326.000

Anglo-American Telegraph Company

14

9,507.660

Black Sea Telegraph Company

1

337.147

Canadian Pacific Railroad Company

9

53.940

Central and South American Telegraph Company

15

7,500.500

Commercial Cable Company

11

13,212.310

Commercial Pacific

4

7,846.747

Compagnie Francaise des Cables Telegraphiques

32

12,102.423

Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company

10

1,162.000

Deutsch Atlantische Telegraphen-Gesellschaft

3

6,057.868

Deutsche See-Telegraphen-Gesellschaft

1

1,111.979

Direct Spanish Telegraph Company

3

723.460

Direct United States Cable Company

2

3,099.958

Direct West India Cable Company

2

1,265.300

Eastern Telegraph Company

139

39,749.360

Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company

34

24,802.240

Europe and Azores Telegraph Company

2

1,053.150

Eastern and South African Telegraph Company.

14

9,068.052

Great Northern Telegraph Company

28

7,003.000

Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company.

1

849.960

India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company

2

137.678

Indo-European Telegraph Company.

3

22.000

Mexican Telegraph Company

3

1,529.000

Pacific and European Telegraph Company

River Plate Telegraph Company

3

138.000

South American Cable Company

2

2,065.224

Spanish National Submarine Telegraph Company

1

927.770

United States and Hayti Telegraph and Cable Company

1

1,389.000

West African Telegraph Company.

6

1,470.867

West Coast of America Telegraph Company

7

1,975.100

West India and Panama Telegraph Company

24

4,639.000

1 Western Telegraph Company

27

17,283.000

Western Union Telegraph Company

8

7,351.000

Total......

437

188,682.693

1 Including London Platino-Brazilian and Montevidean and Brazilian Companies.