Western union FRANCE LENTILLY agent location

For three years (1851-1854) quantity of cable offices Western Union has increased from 132 to 4000 and corporate capital - from 220 thousand to 48 million dollars. At the same time the first transcontinental telegramme sent to president Abraham Linkoln by Supreme judge Stephen Field reported that California remains in the Union. Cost of cable services despite a competition was very high - the small telegramme cost about 20 dollars. Engineers predicted to the project term in 10 years however Edward Creighton - the young and smart agent of the company the Western the Union has crossed the frozen rivers and deserted plains to plan some ways on which the cable route could go. Division of the companies claimed two aims: first to give Western Union possibility to develop more intensively and secondly to help First Data to return to the primary activity (in 1992 the company was stood out from payment system of American Express as the independent financial company).