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Historic Magnetic Telegraph Co. Civil War Telegraph To California Governor.

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Historic Magnetic Telegraph Co. Civil War Telegraph To California Governor.
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Ruby Valley (250 miles East of Fort Churchill), September 17, 1861, Telegraph from James Ganeble to Hon. M.S. Latham (Senator from California who had been governor until 1859) discussing the order of for General Sumner to remove troops protecting mail routes to the West Coast from Indian attacks and suggesting that blankets and flour might accomplish, through good will, as much or more than the presence of troops and at a lower cost. The telegraph reads, ÒIn consequence of anticipated troubles with secessionists in Southern California General Sumner has ordered the troops intended for the protection of the overland mails and telegraph to march at once for Los Angeles and San Bernardino. This movement will leave this route unprotected from what I have seen and can learn of the Indians I am satisfied that forty or fifty thousand dollars expected for blankets and flour for them will answer fully as well a regt of soldiers if the good will make the appropriation which is not one twentieth the cost of sanctioning the troops for one year and let it be judiciously expedited by the mail and telegraph companies at the different stations I am satisfied and shall need no other protection the Indians one in a very destitute condition the crops of nuts and seeds this season very light and I am fully convinced that if the appropriation is not made nor troops furnished for the protection of the route that one shall neither be able to work the telegraph nor run the mails this winter. Please give the matter your immediate attention and telegraph the results. The snow will soon be upon us and no time should be lost as nothing can be transported here in winter. Respectfully James GanebleÓ. The Magnetic Telegraph Co. was the first telegraph company and founded by Samuel Morse and partners, VF-fine condition telegraph correspondence from the Civil War on early telegraph company telegram form.