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Scientific American, Vol. 64, No. 6 (1891) (1891)

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department wire service, by which every por- They constantly grewin size, until each wire becamea road through the arid region east of the Rocky Moun- tion of the city has been thoroughly covered, was so great white cable, as large in many cases as a man’s tains, where a great deal of blasting was… … SNOW. effective than cannon firing near the ground, and he hundred wires are suspended, and, stout as they are, proposes to send up balloons in the dry portions of century, to the time when alarms of fire were rung out they soon began to lean over and break under their Western Kansas and Colorado,…

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