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Show WIRELESS FROM OGDEN TO SALT LAKE. Radio is playing a very important part in this Avar, and undoubtedly, Avith the improvements Avhich will bo developed, Atflreless Avill havo a much greater field of usefulness after tho Avar. An American officer Avho had charge of the wireless system from Seattle" to Alaska, said the service had given excellent ex-cellent results, und ho Avas asked: "Would It be feasible and profitable to establish commercial Avireless communication com-munication betAveon Ogden and Salt Lako." He ansAvercd by slating that In Alaska, Alas-ka, wireless is employed over a num-bor num-bor of mountain ranges, from the southern coast to-tho interior at Fairbanks, Fair-banks, and no Interruptions have been experienced In three years. As to a commercial service betAveen Ogden and Salt Lake, there are no physical obstacles, he said, except the high A'oltage electric linos which Avireloss operators seek to avoid In establishing establish-ing communication. The adA'antage to be obtained is the absence of wire or polo lines to bo maintained as In tole-graphy, tole-graphy, though considerable poAVor Is required in transmission. How efficient and rellablels radio telegraphy Is illustrated by a statement state-ment made by a local officer, who says the Zeppelins are directed in their course by Avireless from a base in Germany. Ger-many. Tavo stations at a known distance dis-tance from each othor, form tho base of a Avireless triangle. As the Zeppelins Zeppe-lins proceed toAv'ard England, the air- ships, at tho crossing of the wireless Avaves, signal back and aro given their bearings. The Germans, by the Avay, Avere tho first to discover Iioav to determine the direotion from which a wireless wave is received. oo |