Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-09-14 | Page 2 | Far Alaska Points Are Now in Wireless Communication

fAR ALASKA POINTS ARE NOW IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION liON W WASHINGTON Sept The Tho 14 The most important government stations in Alaska are now in in complete wireless communication with tho the United States The Tho si signal corps has bas completed the establishment es es- e establishment of six six wireless 9 stations at nt ata nta a cost of over o which will in insure insure in- in sure suro continuous communication in every ery season beason of the year At harbor on the tho northern coat coast of pf the Alaskan peninsula a 10 kilowatt station has been erected This connects conned with a similar station at Fort Gibbon Tannin from the wireless system continues to Fairbanks which has a n similar station Ea Eagle lc is connected with this station and Mummy island a n kilowatt 20 0 station is s installed is also connected by cable to Cordova Cordo-a on the southern coast of Alas- Alas Ica ca From here hero the tho messages es aro Ire jl lumped jumped to island off Seattle J Wash a h. h While these various carious stations have hae been cen in communication with each other it t is expected that within a few days the he first message O will he received in Washington ton clear through h from harbor Cable lines in Alaska it has hils been found are arc often eat cut away by ice ico floes and te telegraph raph lines are arc put plit out of commission by hJ forest fires thirty thirty seven seven mil miles of win wire hajn having baring recently been wiped out ont in that way wa Wireless communication communication com- com in that far northern region has been found foun to bo ho very cry successful the he si signal nl corps bavin having maintained for fori fora fL a i number of vt years ars communication in inthis inthis this his way arrows across s Norton sound between Nome and St. St Michael Th The new wireless system wj will therefore there there- ore fore be he most effective in maintaining communication durin during the spring when it t is is almost impossible to do so in an any other manner as 35 tho the snow is ill soft sort and impassable and floods prevail through the tho country Tho The Bi signal al corps has about men stationed in Alaska The Tho officers officer who have established the tho wireless wire wire- less stations arc are Capt Mack K Cunnin Cun- Cun nin lingham ham Captain Hanson Ranson B. B B. B Black Charles T T. T Willard and Eo who is in in n char charge o of the iho work ork