Progress of the Telegraph - 1863

FARLEY

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Date: 5/25/2016 at 15:12:54

Dubuque Democratic Herald – Nov. 3, 1863

Progress of the Telegraph
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Seven car loads of poles will cross the river today for the new telegraph line. The holes been dug to Winthrop, and the poles and wires erected to Farley, twenty-three miles out. An office will be established at Farley in a few days. The work progresses favorably, and in a shirt time will be completed the entire length of the road.