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could shoulder this burden of wire and carry it. Throw all the people If it were all gathered together into one place, this Bell System, it at home, they might drive them in as piles along their water-front, and a stockade around Texas. If the Telephonians wished to use these poles would make a city of Telephonia as large as Baltimore. It would contain half of the telephone property of the world. Its actual wealth would be vast, so nearly akin to a national nerve system, that there is nothing development. Here is the most comprehensive idea that has entered any telephone engineer's brain. Already this Bell System has grown to be so the city of New York. of Illinois in one end of the scale, and put on the other side the else to which we can compare it. It is so wide-spread that few are communities. have a twenty-five thousand-acre dock; or if their city were a hundred square miles in extent, they might set up a seven-ply wall around it The Bell System! Here we have the motif of American telephone Wire, too! Eleven million miles of it! This city of Telephonia would therefore the concern of all." aware of its greatness. It is strung out over fifty thousand cities and fully $760,000,000, and its revenue would be greater than the revenue of Part of the property of the city of Telephonia consists of ten million What would this city do for a living? It would make two-thirds of be the capital of an empire of wire. Not all the men in New York State wire-wealth of Telephonia, and long before the last coil was in place, poles, as many as would make a fence from New York to California, or put the Illinoisans would be in the air. with these poles.