Memorial of Henry O'Reilly Proposing a System of Intercommunication by Mail and Telegraph . between the Atlantic and Pacific States

21.7x13 cm. Pamphlet removed from the serial set bound in later full morocco. 34 pp., scattered foxing. This is an early proposal for a telegraph link between the east and west coasts of the United States. The author, O'Reilly (also spelled O'Rielly) proposes the line be constructed with private, not government, money. It includes a mention, on page 13, of "the new Mormon community, in the vicinity of the Great Salt Lake" This was an early proposal for a trans-continental telegraph line as well as having an early reference to the Mormon settlement in Utah. Not in Flake. 32nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate Miscellaneous Document No. 67.