The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-20
ITS IMPORTANCE TO CANADA.

It has in contemplation and under considera tion large plans for the ex- tension and enlargement of It's sys- tenn, which will, when realized, make the company of the utmost importance to the political and commercial well fare of the Dominion.
 Consideration is now being given to plans for the extension of the Mar conf system to Pacific coast ports of call and entry in Canada, which In ali probability will result In the equip ment of coastwise and seagoing steam ships touching thereat.
 It's patents. which are basic, and which underlie the art of wireless tei- egraphy, are conserya&ively estinsst~a by experts to be worth over H10so0Os- | GOO. The integrity of thene patents | was recently upheld by the United l states Courts against Infringing in- l yentore.
 system of direct communication l between Canada and the mother coun- | try Is of the utmost importance to the welfare of the British empire, and must ultimately result in closer busi- | ness relations and in better and more | cordial intercourse between England l and Canada. There Is at present no direct means of communication by the Marconi system, all messages havinG to pass through America, over foreign cables. The need for the early exten- sion of the Marconi system throughout the Dominion must therefore be ap- parent over s3.000.000 PER YEAR IS SPENT BY CANADIAN CITIZENS Tor cable messages and this great expendi- ture passes into the receipt column of cable companies owned in the United States or Europe. Why should thts great sum of money go as tribute to outsiders? OUGHT IT NOT REMAIN IN CANADA FOR INTERPRETATION in the country where it is expended and where it may he TURNED TO FUR THEIR PROFIT? II is surprising that this tremendous branch of industry is not served by a company owned and operated in Canada
 The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada. Ltd. has such close business relationship to Marconfs Wireless Telegraph company, Ltd.. ci London: the Marconi Wireless Teie. graph Company of America. and ail other Marconi companies wherever or ganized throughout the world that the whole may be said to form ons sys- tenn. each integral part of which is tributary to the other. The harmo- nious and cooperative relations of the various Marconi companies is assured by binding contract obligations through which each Marconi station erected at any point in the world becomes in a sense a feeder of all Therefare. each station erected in any part of the world adds to the earning capacity of all others and each steamship adds to the list of those carrying the Marconi sys- tenn adds another factor to the progress and earning capacity of the Canadian company as well as of all other Mar conf companies. An equitable system of the division of earnings on trafffa between connecting companies has bean devised. which insures to each its full proportion.
 The Canadian company owns the ex- elusive right to equip all vessels of Canadian registry with the Maroonf system.
 All vessels of the merchant marine TOW equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus must, on their winter voy- ages between Europe and America. pass within one hundred miles of a Canadian wireless telegraph station, and the last point of communleation on the outward voyage from America
 and the first point on the inward voy- age Is therefore a station of this con-
 pany. very considerable traffic must
 necessarily pass through this station.
 The great Canadian northwest, in- cludins British Columbia. the North
 west and Yukon territories, now al- most wholly without telegraph facili- ties, offers a most profitable field for the operations of this company. It has been found practically impossible to maintain wire communication with these distant points. though hundreds Of thousands of dollars havo been ex- pended in the attempt. The Marconi system may be installed for a mere fraction of the cost Of the wire sys- tems of telegraph.
 w. A, RYAN.