DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS BY TELEGRAPH AND CABLE

THE GREAT NORTH WESTERN TELEGRAPH CO., CONNECTING WITH THE WESTERN UNION TELETRAPH CO., CONSTITUTES THE LARGEST TELEGRAPHIC SYSTEM IN THE WORLD.

OVER ONE MILLION MILES OF WIRE IN CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

Over 25,000 Telegraph Offices, including Branch Offices.

Also direct Connection by Telegraph or Telephone with many more remote and smaller stations, making a total list of 60,000 in Canada, United States and Mexico, and this number is rapidly increasing.

SEVEN ATLANTIC CABLES

Connecting North America with all points in Europe and beyond, including Two Cables of the American Telegraph and Cable Company, Four Cables of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, and One Cable of the Direct United States Cable Co.

Connects at Galveston, Texas, with the Cables of the Mexican, the Central and South American Telegraph Companies for all points in Mexico and Central and South America.

Cables to Havana, Cuba, connecting at that place with the Cuba, Submarine and West India and Panama Telegraph Companies for all points in the West Indies.

Connects at San Francisco with Pacific Cables to the Sandwich Islands, Honolulu, Guam, the Philippines, China, Japan, etc., and at Victoria, B.c., with Pacific Cable to Australia and New Zealand.

Connects at Seattle, Wash., with U.S. Government Lines and Cables to and in Alaska.

THE TWO TELEGRAPH POLES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE SIZE IN NUMBER OF OFFICES OF THE GREAT NORTH WESTERN AND WESTERN UNION AS COMPARED WITH ALL OTHER COMPETING COMPANIES COMBINED.

[Image of large telegraph pole] GREAT NORTH WESTERN AND WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANIES

[Image of small telegraph pole] ALL COMPETING COMPANIES

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS BY TELEGRAPH AND CABLE

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BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, DREWRY FAMILY, Selected correspondence, 1917–1919.