Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-07-30
EASTERN DISPATCHES
I r~BLvsRAPHY.
Jim Keene's New Telegraph Pro-
ject-A Powerful Company Win
Plenty Of Capital-All tho Latest
Improvements aad Advantages-
Interesting Statistics.

Plenty OF Capital-All tho Lstes!
Improvements and Advantages-
Interesting statistics.
CHICAGO. July s0.-A spscislfrom New
York says: Keen.'s new telegraph COM
papy was formally organized yesterday
It 10 becoming quite the fashion nows'
days for ~millionairss and Wall street
operators to control organizations Of
this character. and following Wander
bilt and Gould. Kssns now comes In for
his share Of the great telssrsphio COM
petition which IL sure to rise up against
the monopoly Of the Western Union.
The new company ID well provided
with monsysd backing. a. IL evidenced
BY the names OF some Of the incorpor-
aiors-Jobn W. Msokay, OF bonanza
fame; George D. Roberts, mine msnipu.
lator; Il. Victor Nswoomb. Jas. O'Brirn.
also Of bonsnxs memory, and others.
The stock chiefly 10 In the hands Of
California, New York aud Boston ospi-
%talists. although . considerable portion
10 said to be taken In Europe.
The purpose 10 to construct . system
Of telegraph lines in the United States.
Canad. aud Mexico, and do . general
telegraph business. The prospectus OF
promising lines 10 equivalent In working
capacity to the present Western Union
system, which sbsll be In operation BY
January, 1883. The new company re-
GENTLY Obtained facilities which they
claim will enable them to do this with.
out interfering with the rights and
patents held BY the Western Union.
The arst point obtained BY the Keno
combination was the patents on the hsw
system OF automatic and fac smile tel
eersph, the patentss being W. A. L'eao.
These patents have been sssigned to the
photographic Manufacturing Company,
incorporated last October. and the price
paid the latter for the exclusive right
to use the Lego automatic and
facsimile machine 10 said to be
8 900, 900. The Photographic did
not propose to 60 into general tsls.
graphic business, but will continue to
perfect and manufacture machines by
the automatic system. Messages Q
b. sent Ut the rate Of between 1000 and
$500 words q minute. while by the old
method twenty-five words . minute 10
the capacity OF the Instruments. With
proper wire and the Instruments In per-
feet order. The managers OF the new
company say they have every reason to
believe that Q rate OF 5000 words per
minute is practicable. The American
Rapid Telegraph Company 10 similar to
this In many respects, but practically
their speed IL limited 10 less than 1000
words Q minute. At the rate OF $500
words o minute the new company can
transmit more words In Q quarter Of an
hour than the ordinary method can 10
twepiy.four hours. By this mechanism
l6O, 200 words can be transmitted In an
hour on one wire. and In . day nearly
1000, 900 words. They can do more
business with one wire between any two
points than the Western Union can do
with al theirs.
The instrument consists Of an iron
wheel. about two feet and . half In d.
ams.er, with q csrsfully.iurpsd Aat sur.
face one foot broad. Above this 10 an
instrument like the Morse soundsr.
moving from left to right on . screw.
while the large wheel turns around
slowly at right angles with the move.
msut Of the soundsr on the screw.
Above the screw 10 q can OF especially
prepared analins ink. The operator
works the sounder % hs would the
Morse instrument In sending . message,
aud a. the large wheel revolvss the
negative OF the message be desires sent
appears In elongated Morse oharaotsrs
in analius Ink In parallel lines around
the periphery Of the large wheel. the
surface OF which can receive the I'm.
press Of 600.word message. This
irpRth can bs put on the wheel In half
tho time II would take the operator to
send II Of, ~ 10 the latter case the
operator cannot send the message more
rapidly than the receiver can reosivs 1t
and write 1t out, and II the receiver loses
q word the time Of both sender and 70.
ceivrr 10 lost In repeating It. The
message can be put upon the wheel ct
the rate OF 80 to 100 words per minute,
and while the message 10 being written
the wire can be used In sending other
messages. When Q message has been
completed on the wheel the Morse like
instrument 10 thrown back to the start.
ing point, and the ink point 10 replaced
BY Q metallic button or the long arm,
which presses constantly on the wheel.
and the wheel and button are put 10
circuit. The large wheel 10 revolved ct
q high rate Of speed, while the button
travels from left 10 right across the sur.
face, keeping constantly on the lins Of
the negative OF the Morse characters.
When thu button 10 on the Sin" char.
sct.rs the circuit 10 broken. When on
the wheel itself, between the characters,
1t 10 reversed BY this system. In send.
ing Q message OF, say 1000 words. to
Ban Francisco. which BY the pres.n mt
method would take several hours before
the last Of the message had been rolled
Of the wheel here, the drst Of II would
be received. and this without increasing
the cost OF transmission.
The managers say It will reduce the
cost Of tel.graphipg 10 fraction more
than the usual postal rates. One OF
them says that long messages will cost
but little more than short ones. and an
EQUAL rate 80 with letters should b made
for Ill points east Of the Mississippi and
two or three times a. much charged for
points beyond. The prospectus says
the company proposes to construct lines
OF telegraph across the continent, com.
municsting with ocean cables and con-
Meeting all the leading towns and cities
In the United States. Canada and Mex
loo. One advantage claimed by the new
company 10 the possession OF the Gray
harmonic multiple and way duplex sys-
TEN OF tsl-grsphing. The Gray bar.
monio system allows six messages to Be
sent simultaneously over o single wire
In the Same or opposits directions. each
message being sent. a. 1t were. ina dii'
fsrept kew or tone from the others. This