| Show WOULD COST OOST S I 1 j Wh the Cable horn rom San rr Francisco to the P JI Could be lid Laid for or r 1 nOlle I Is II is 8 O I Report I Washington Jan Ln Long I and Rear Admiral Bradford F before Senate committee on naval u furs lr today tollay In advocacy ot of huC t Lion of l a cable by the goer mont The Tho statement w Va general and related entirely to thO feasibilIty ot of the pla plan J enter over doing the tho work by private price near Bear Admiral Bradford detailed the operations ot of the coll collier r Nero which Is stow engaged In making f a lIne west went ot of surveyor survey of th the proposed Honolulu le sId said he survey uney had been completed and that the Nero ero was now on Is Its return making ia zigzag K survey According t to the reports made of the preliminary work the proposed o It Is to torun torun cable wa was entirely practicable 1 I run from San Francisco to Honolulu thence via the MIdway Islands sad and Guam to lay Bay island of Luson with a spur for Cor commercIal wih depth be between to Yokohama The he average tween Honolulu and MidWay I is iq fathoms fathoms bel between Midway and Guam arid and between Guano Guam and Luzon 30 2800 le lie estimated the cost at 1050 per knot knol which wih with the amount l e sar nary for tor steamers would brIng the cos cost up to IO O 10 lie the entire length of oC the cable at knots which allows 0 per cent for tor slack and detour In connection with his statement Ad wih sid said he Understood the tho average expenses of 01 the war depart meat ment for tor messages to 10 Manila to b be beabout about 1000 00 per day and that the tOtal of the of tho the n naVy depart department ep rt ment had amounted to I 1 J |
