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Show I TELEGRAPH LINE OPERATED BY GOVERNMENT The United States government has taken Ils list step iu making the telegraph system of this country a part of the public service to be carried car-ried on by the postoffice department Up in Alaska, thirteen vears ago, the government, as a military neces-fliy, neces-fliy, started the construction, under the supervision of the signal corp cf the army, of a cable and telegraph line that has since developed into a bik thing, including 26no miles of ,ubmarine cable, In wireless stations and 1000 miles of land wire This public utility has boon doing i commercial business so large that the military feature has been dwarfed dwarf-ed and now it is proposed to tranter tran-ter the service to the postoffice department de-partment When the change Is made, that will notice to the big telegraph companies compa-nies tbe Western Union and Postal -that at last those mediums of com municatlon are to become govern cient owned from the Atlantic to the Faciflc In England the telegraph lines are operated by the government. and there is no good reason why that condition should no' prevail In the I nited States. rw |