Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-22
MAY HAVE
WlRELESS
PACIFIC COMPANY PROPOSES
BUILDING STATION IN
OTTUMWA
SYSTEM is PRACTICAL
c. w. Martz, a Representative Of the
Telegraph Concern, IS in the City
Will Build Chain Of Stations to
New Orleans.

Ottumwa has now an opportunity to
have wireless telegraph station con-
structed in this city which will con-
meet with the station of the Pacific
Wireless Telegraph Co. in the west and
with the new chain of stations no"
proposed by the same company, ex-
tending through to the eastern sea-
board and south to New Orleans.
C. w. Martz of Rock Island, ILL.,, an
agent Of the Pacific Wireless, is in the
city today for the purpose of looking
over the situation here and to ascer-
tain the sentiment of the residents OF
Ottumwa towards securing such sta
ton.
Mr.. Martz in an interview this morn
ing outlined his company as follows:
81 have been surprised since l came
to the central portion of the country
at the Ignorance of the majority of the
people. many of them we'll informed
on other subjects. in regard to Wire
less telegraphy. Why, in the Pacific
states, the school children know more
about the wireless than your profess
sors do here.
at is mistake to presume that
wireless telegraphy is still an exper-
iment. 1t is not. 1t is in it's infancy
as yet and there are wonderful de-
velopments and Improvements to come
in the future, but in it's present state
it is a practical business proposition,
My company, the Pacific Wireless
Telegraph Co., has a system of their
own. Their patents are entirely diff
fenent from the Marconi patents or
any of the other systems. We have
now eighteen stations in operation on
the Pacific coast and between the cit
les where we have stations many bus
mess men send their messages bp us
instead of by the wire companies be
cause the service is much more rapid
The Wireless is Practical.
eve have been in business on the
coast since 1903 and the wireless has
proven that it is a convenient and
practical way of transmitting mes
sages. We have stations covering ter
ritory extending all the way from Sar
Pedro, Cal. to Victoria, B. 9.
eve have also instruments on the
revenue cutters belonging to the
United States government on Puget
Sound. We are extending westward
contemplating an invasion of the ter
ritory hitherto held by the Maroon
company exclusively.
1--WE have already station III opera
ton at Denver, connecting with oul
mammoth station at the top OF Tamal
pals. near San Francisco. From this
station at Denver we connect with on
recently finished station at Chicago
From Chicago We intend to go east
ward connecting with a chain of sta
lions and with Philadelphia, New Yorl
and Boston.
A Chain of Stations.
1--WE have recently let the contract
) for the building of a wireless station
at Davenport and the construction 0
this station will soon begin. We lr
tend to go from Davenport to Ceda
Rapids, where we have also decided t
build a station, down the Mississippi
valley to New Orleans, constructing
chain of some twenty odd stations.
May Build One Here.
"Ottumwa may be one of thos
twenty points. Our method is to g
into city and ascertain the feelln
l of the people toward wireless ST.
ton. We have stock to sell, as tn
company is still young. If We recc:v
the proper encouragement selling stoc
up to a little more than half the Coz
of the station, we will build one !
. Davenport we sold about $1,000 wort