Everything about Pacific Telegraph Company totally explained
In
1860, the
Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 called for the facilitation of communication between the east and west coasts of the
United States of America.
Hiram Sibley of the
Western Union Telegraph Company won the contract. In
1861,
Benjamin Franklin Ficklin joined Hiram Sibley in helping to form the
Pacific Telegraph Company of
Nebraska.
At the same time,
Jeptha Wade was asked by Hiram Sibley to consolidate smaller telegraph companies in
California. While the Pacific Telegraph Company built west from
Omaha, Nebraska, the
Overland Telegraph Company of
California was thus formed and built east from
Carson City, Nevada. With their connection in
Salt Lake City, Utah on October 24, 1861, the final link between the east and west coasts of the United States of America was made by telegraph. The
First Transcontinental Telegraph led to the immediate demise of the
Pony Express. The Pacific Telegraph Company and Overland Telegraph Company of California were eventually absorbed into the Western Union Telegraph Company.
References and Sources
Contemporary account of the construction of the transcontinental telegraph
History of the first transcontinental telegraph
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