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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.
 
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