Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-11
Kite-FlYiug.

Ever since Franklin raised his kite
to catch the lightning of the clouds,
the electricians have gone on in a linn
tied circle, making Improvements in
his method, until now they have COM
pleted a circuit, finding themselves
just where he started, namely, with a
boys kite. L such is not the purport
Of the new enterprise, entitled Loom
Is Aerial Telegraph, we are at loss to
discover what other origin it may
have. But the protector claims to ac-
complish more than was verdreamed
of by Franklin or his successors in
electrical discovery. The Loomis
Aerial Telegraph Company, which
was granted a charter 10y Congress q
few days ago, formed with a capital
stock Of S2OO, 900, and a prospective
fund of $4,000, 900, propose to telegraph
from m high elevation upon the
earth's surface to another, without the
necessity of telegraph wires being
stretched from point to point, as in the
present system. DR.. Loomis claims
to have discovered a regular strata of
electricity, at a great height in the at
mosphere above the earth's surface,
which can be made available for the
transmission of messages from noun
tain top to mountain top, using the
same instruments as batteries
for receiving the same that are
nov in vogue. From actual exper-
iments made last Summer and
Fall, in the State of Virginia,
he found that he could make direct
use OF this atmospheric electricity for
Geographic purposes. From stations
on mountain tops, fifteen miles apart,
with cooperating assistants, he sent
up kites 500 feet into the air, to
his supposed electric strata, each
kite having a fine copper wire spun
into the cord ian improvement on
Franklin) and terminating in several
points, protruding from the top of the
kite, the lower end Of the cord con-
Meeting with the ground. BY this
means, he succeeded, with proper in
struments and concerted signs,in con-
versing with his assistant without
difficulty. The ground forming one
part of the circuit, and his wires, kites
and the electric strata the rest of it,
the problem seems a very possible
and natural one. He argues that,
a1lnrinv thnco a1ootr;, ctroto e, Ln -
indefinite length, he could telegraph
with equal facility from one lofty
mountain range to the other. cl iar
across the continent. or even across
the Atlantic ocean. from the Rocky
Mountains to the Alps, materially as
sisted by towers built at the highest
points or stations. The Gold Hill
Ne,cs, from which we cOllate this ac-
count, thinks that this aerial telegraph
may form a complete solution of the
vexed postal telegraph question, do
ing away at a single stroke with all
the established telegraph lines in the
country. There would also be but
little difficulty in thus establishing
cheap private telegraphs almost any
where, the expense being limited
principally to kites and wire strings.
RETURN TO SPECIE PAYMENTS
Most of the leading bankers and bust
ness men in the East look with favor
upon Senator Sherrnan's bill, which
provides for a return to specie pay
ments after January 1st, 1874, by re-
quiring the Secretary of the Treasury
to redeem the national currency now
in circulation in gold, as fast as the
same may be presented to him. AS
the administration is known to favor
Sherman's bill, it will doubtless lie
enacted into a law, and the country
once more brought back to the use of
the common currency of the CONNER
cial world.