telegraph 1880s

Delay in the Huelva-Aracena Telegraph Line

We stated the other day that the delay in opening the Huelva to Aracena telegraph line for service was due to the fact that the City Council had not yet prepared the building where the station was to be installed. Our colleague El Reformista, as if responding to our report by commission, offered another account in a tone suggesting competent authority, claiming that everything was settled for the opening of the Huelva-Aracena line, and that nothing remained but for the directorate to appoint the operating staff. Today, with new reports in hand, we can further sharpen our censure of the Aracena City Council; for far from what our colleague asserts being true, not only is the station house not ready, but at the rate they are progressing, it will be a long time before it is. It seems that the carpenter commissioned by the Municipality to produce the station’s furnishings was simultaneously instructed never to finish them. It is right that we should know the cause of this delay and not cast all the blame upon Mr. Mausi who, while he may not remember that there is a line from Zafra to Huelva which could carry the mail, has not, for that reason, forgotten the Aracena telegraph line.