| Show I Telegraph companies exchange at the rate of 34 of a cent per pound about 100 tons of old and rejected wire every I i year This wire costs the company from 7 to 8 cents per poundsixteen feet to the pound The company calculates from five to seven years as the life of a wire The wires last much longer in a dry climate than in a moist one Wires strung along the coast are often found incrusted with a salt deposit which in the course of a few years will cause much trouble to the operators and if a storm occurs the weight upon the wires will cause breakage to ensue which is often charged to the severity snowstorms J |
