Show THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE the numerous stockholders and others interested in the success of the atlantic telegraph cable will read with interest and satisfaction the annexed official report of progress thus far made in the tho manufacture odthe of the cable and other arrangements range ments necessary to secure success to the attempt soon to be made to connect europe and america by telegraph via ireland and newfoundland journal of commerce oct 27 ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY 12 st helens place Bishop gate street within london MY DEAR SIR As our work is nom now no fetting getting fairly underway under way a few ears tars r s as to what is going forward nere here ix ir addition to my weekly reports whid which 1 trust you receive regularly will wiil will wiil doubt less be of interest to yourself and codi co di rectors in america as well as to th tho shareholders the covering of the copper with its four layers percha com corn fenced on the of april and ha hhas since then continued slowly and wit great care being constantly under ele elec tests by the aid of apparatus if it had been available when our fo mer cable was constructed would hav caused the very best portions of it t have been utterly rejected the present core however even ui der these searching tests shows a re e faction of insulation in its worst pa par more than twice that of the high star stai dard prescribed by the and is undoubtedly the finest telegram tele grap ic core that has ever been construct constructs i up to this period of this about S miles have at present been complete or are in in various stages of completion the homogeneous iron which is is new feature in the construction of th tt cable is as you are aware being pro debby ded b webster Hor stall birmingham the total weight ca for is 1600 tons the druwit of it was commenced on the if last and we have an agent on horsfal premises who test tests nearly every buni of it for and elongation a transmits his tests weekly to this oft off for examination I 1 also occasional go down to birmin birminham birmingham ham personal and in arditi addition on to the contractor have at marden wharf a man wll wil sole duty it is to the wire wl delivered in londa I 1 need not i that all the deliveries are fully u up pU to 1 specifications as every bundle bundie thal thai even doubtful is at once absolu absolutes absolutely tel tei j ejected it is only fair to the wire ti art ers llo lio however wever to say that they are s ving to the ulmont utmost to do their duty 1 that the rejections have been very I 1 upwards of tons hagenow have now been delivered livered ii large ra stock sare also now on hand of the manila yarn with y ith iv which Illch the iron wire is to be surrounded and of the t tarred jute which forms the padding for the protection of the gutta percha core from injury from the compression of the external armor of the manila covered wire the deliveries of core from the gutta percha works to the east greenwich covering works commenced on the of july but a good deal of delay has necessarily taken place in commencing the last stage of the manufacture that of covering the core with its external protection owing to the fact that with a determination to omit no improvements that science and experience have suggested the them contractors have narl nearly remodeled remodeled the works at that place AT AU the covering machines have been taken down and reconstructed and every appliance added which forethought an and present knowledge can think of for the security and preservation and testing of the new cable eight immense iron tanks have been constructed one for each machine so that the cable passes direct out of the manufactory into water and twenty four other iron tang tant tanks have been provided for the preservation of the core during its progress through r the factory into the covering machines with special arrangements for applying a severe and special test to every joint before it passes into the covering machine I 1 owing 0 to o the length of time which these various various important matters have t occupied it was not until thursday the oi of september that a machine for turning out the completed cable was started since then three other machines have got into full wok and a fifth machine will start before le the tho end of the present week tho the other three will afterwards be speedily edly set going boing and the cable will then be completed at the rate of about 80 miles per week at present a little over miles have havo been furnished 1 the great reat eastern steamship left liv the service of this com company pany pady on saturday the lith of july and ar rived at sheerness on wednesday J where she slie now continues the contractors commenced on the loth 3 september to remove the floor of her 0 upper deck deckon 1 on the deck below which t the iron tanks will have to be erected for storing the tile cable in water these tanks will be three in number and dimensions about fifty nine feet diameter by twenty in depth the iron plates for them are being rould and punched u ached by westwood ft bail ball fl lie lle e who rivet them together on board and who are bound to complete them not later than the middle of december the first tank is to be ready by the middle of november the government have appropriated two ships to the service of transporting the cable as it is made from tho the works at marden wharf to the great eastern at sheerness these also aiso will each contain three iron tanks so that the cable will never be out of water for more than a few moments at a time from its first comm commencement at the E gutta titta percha works to its submersion in the sea the contractors have in stock the tanks for these ships and they will therefore only require putting to together ether iam lam I 1 am happy appy to 0 tell you chatas that as regards the portion of completed cable nothing can be e more satisfactory than the manner in which it can be coiled and handled it was thought by some that the advantage gained by the great strength of the homogeneous iron would be co counteracted n ter acted by its supposed hardness and sp butas regards the vp portion at present turned bouc out I 1 can testify that this supposition is quite a fallacy it lies ashead as dead as a hemp rope in the coil coll and has no spring whatever in it I 1 trust the above account will be satisfactory to yourself and our directors and other friends in america they may be assured of one thing without any doubt namely that we shall have a better cable eakle cable cabie than has ever hitherto been produced and if the opinion of those who should be most competent to judge maybe may be relied on the great eastern is the pa roper proper ship gor for for nor the work in the belief therefore that every known precaution and app appliance ilance liance I 1 i in n securing success has been and will be made available we ve may more safely commit the great and hoped for final result of our noble linder undertaking taking to the protection of that mightiest arm I 1 to which even aven the stor stormiest waves waves of the atlantic Atlant icare leare are obedient I 1 am my dear sir ery c very truly yours f GEO sawarn SAWARD secretary and general superintendent cyrtus cyrus W FIELD fjield ESQ S 1 l |