Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-07-04
SIGNALING TO MARS.
A Claim That Communications Have
 Been Already Established.

Been Already Established.
 A correspondent of the Los An geles Times contributes the follow ing to that paper concerning the much talked of proposition of of signaling from our planet to Mars:
 1t is intimated, in a recent New
 York World article, that certain bell like sounds, heard in electric earth currents in the stiffness CT the night, are telephSnic efforts of electricians on the planet Mars to open up communication with the earth. It seems that Edison, in our own country, and Freeze, in Eng land, have heard these mysterious tones, and admit the possibility of their origin in distant space. In the same connection it is remarked that strange lights were seen on Mars when under observation during its opposition over year ago. The three lights were arranged in a triangle. Nightly, as the great red orb rose to the vault of heaven, the lights flashed out as soon as darkness set in, and in the immense lens of the Lick telescope they glowed with steady and continued effulgence," and then it asked, twas this an effort of the inhabitants of Mars to attract the attention of those on earthi"
 Rather was it not an effort on the part of the Martial Astronomers to answer some of the very evident signals from cur earth to Marsi I came down the bridle road from Mt. Lowe with a belated party a few evenings ago, and as we rounded the rocky buttress known as Point Surprise, there came suddenly into view the brilliant electric lights of Altadena. Though they were 5000 feet below us and six miles distant, as the crow flies, they threw a per ceptible shadow upon the rocky wall at one side, as our forms intercepted the light. We looked down upon a magnificent field of diamond lights about mile square. "What grand thing" said one of our party who had travelled abroad, eff we could look down from similar height upon the great city of London, covering nearly one hundred square miles, And then the thought flashed into my mind, it is only within the last fifteen or twenty years that the great cities have been lighted up by these brilliant electric lights. The astronomers of Mars may have been watching, through their great telescopes, the gradual blazing foIth of these great cities. They may have noticed with wonder the new lights flashing up from London and Paris and Berlin, forms ing a great right angle triangle. And, following up their investiga- tions with increasing zeal and expectancy, they may have perceived the gradual lighting up of another geometrical figure. New York and Philadelphia on the east and Chi cago and St. Louis on the west would form most striking oblong square. If the European triangle might have been attributed to chance, say volcanic outbursts or some other natural cause. the American quadrangle would surely banish all doubt as to an intelligent design in the production of the mysterious lights.
 1t is manifest then that the inhab- itants of Mars have come to the reasonable conclusion that the inhabitants of the earth are signal ing to them, and, fired with the sublimity of the thought that they could answer back our wonderful message across the great abyss of 100000 miles, which separates them from the earth during opposi- tion, the people of Mars have lighted their three triangular fires, or possibly great electric lights, to let us know that they understand our signals and appreciate our endeayor to cultivate their acquaint ance and be on sociable and neigh. borly terms with them.