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CANADIAN RAILWAY TELEGRAPH HISTORY-Canadian Telegraphic Historical Newspaper Accounts
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Article Fourty-Five
"Canso Cable To Be Laid"
Announced 11 April 1900

	The steamship 'Silvertown,' owned by the Telegraph Construction
	& Maintenance Company of London, England, will leave New York
	Harbor this week to begin laying the Commercial Cable Company's
	new cable between Coney Island and Fox Bay, Canso, Nova Scotia.
	The cable is to make connections between these two points and
	the Azores.  Manager-Director H K Gray is in charge while on
	board the 'Silvertown.'  The ship and crew will lay 950 knots
	of cable.

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