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Show CABLES ON THE ' CUT-OFFMUST GO Believing the efficiency of the service serv-ice will be increased, the Western Union Telegraph company will remove re-move the cables from the line of tho Southern "Pacific tracks across the l-u-cin cutoff and will build a now line around the laKc. More than 30 miles of cable will be taken down and heavier heav-ier single wires will he substituted over tho new route, involving nn expenditure ex-penditure of several thousand dollars and giving employment to many .men Although the action of the salt water wa-ter on the cables has given more or less trouble, the real reaaon for tho removal is because of the great resistance re-sistance offered by the fine "wires which must necessarily be used in tho cable to carry the current. I-arge wires offer less resistance to an electric elec-tric current than small wires, and while the current must travel a longer long-er distance around the lake, the resistance re-sistance will not be so great as what Is now encountered In the small wires of the cable. 00 |