TELEGRAPH FROM AMERICA TO ASIA.

Evening Post, Issue 102, 7 June 1865, Page 2

TELEGRAPH FROM AMERICA TO ASIA.

Colonel Bulkley, engineer-in-chief d&flife Collins' Overland Telegraph and WesiiHl Union Extension, has arrived in San Ut&ffl* cisco in company with various members -$ the organisation for erecting the telegraph' which is to connect the United States and Russia.' About 1500 men will be employed on land in the proposed work, besides a co-operative force at sea or on the coast, landing the material at intermediate ports as may be practicable. The line of' the Western Union Company is to be extended from the Western States to New* Westminster, British Columbia, by the middle of March, and from that point it will be taken up by Colonel Biilkley's party. They will proceed from New Westminster to Port Babine, through a country already explored. From Babine Lake, in the centre of British Coiumbia, to the Yukau River, in the British possessions, the country has never been explored, and through this wild region it is the intention of the company to make their way, a distance of about 3000 miles. 'I he fleet on the ocean will co-operate with them as far as practicable by means of the numerous rivers on the coast, many of which, however, must first be explored. It is the expectation of the company to find the same character of country between the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada in the mjre southern latitudes, and to come out on the other side on the Yukau River, at its head, where they will find the first settlement after their departure from Babine Lake. The river is a very large one, * having several outlets in Norton Sound, south of Behring's Straits, where it is known as and called Kinchpak. The driver is navigable for about three hundred miles, so far as is known, and has for some years been known by the Russians in their trading operations. From the Yukan River the company will proceed to Cape Prince of Wales, which is the point of land nearest the opposite coast of Asia. From this point a submarine cable will be laid across Behring's Straits, which are here only 36 miles wide. Arrived on the Asiatic side of the Straits they will go around Anadyr Bay through Techuktchi (an unsettled country though not altogether unexplored) until they strike Penjinsk Gulf, or the Okhotsk Sea, whence they will follow the coast around the Amoor River. This country is settled by the Russian Cossacks, and roads are built the entire distance. The company anticipate that by the time they arrive at the Amoor River the telegraph from St. Petersburg will have been completed to . that point. — Alta Califomian.