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[[bold title]]The Russo-American Telegraph-Operations Suspended.[[/bold]]
 The directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company met in New York last week and resolved to suspend operations in the construction of the Russo-American line. The company also resolved to send a commission to Russia to urge the Court to assume the construction of this line from the Amoor river to the Russian possessions in North America. The advantages of such a line to the Russian Government would be sufficiently great to warrant it in making the outlay. If the Russian Government refuses to accede to this request, it is probably that the project of connecting the United States with Asia and Europe by the Northwestern route will be abandoned. 
 The cause for this action may bee briefly stated. The Atlantic cable has proved a success beyond the expectations of even those who projected it, and it is not fully employed in transmitting the despatches now offered, and the company are gradually reducing rates. If the Russian line was now completed it could not compete for European business with the cable. 
 Such being the facts Western Union directors do not feel warranted in making further expenditure on the Russian Extension Line. 
This line has been constructed some 800 miles above New Westminster, in British Columbia, and stange as it may seem, it is now paying working expenses as far North as it goes, and it works satisfactorily. 
 The company has expended about $2,400,000 on the Russian line, and has property and funds to the credit of that line valued at $1,500,000, which may be available to the stockholders. 
 The capital stock of the company was $10,000,000, on which 25 per cent. was paid. About 90 per cent. of the stock was converted into the bonds of the Western Union Company, in accordance with an offer made by that company some time since. There is about one million standing unconverted, on which the holders have paid $250,000.- [[italics]]Rochester Union, Feb. 25.[[/italics]]
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