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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
19
But
for
the
company
of
which
he
was
the
father,
which
he
had
got
up
with
so
much
toil,
it
lived
but
a
few
months,
when
it
became
involved
in
debt
some
fifty
thousand
dollars,
chiefly
to
laborers
on
the
line,
and
ended
its
existence
by
an
ignominious
failure.
The
concern
was
bankrupt,
and
it
was
plain
that,
if
the
work
was
not
to
be
finally
abandoned,
it
must
be
taken
up
by
stronger
hands.
FOOTNOTES:
[A]
"On
the
fourth
day
of
December,
I
accomplished
the
survey
through
three
hundred
and
fifty
miles
of
wood
and
wilderness.
It
was
an
arduous
undertaking.
My
original
party,
consisting
of
six
white
men,
were
exchanged
for
four
Indians;
of
the
latter
party,
two
deserted,
one
died
a
few
days
after
my
return,
and
the
other,
'Joe
Paul,'
has
ever
since
proclaimed
himself
an
ailing
man."--Letter
of
Mr.
Gisborne.
[B]
Horace
B.
Tebbets
and
Darius
B.
Holbrook.
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