Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-12
UNCLE SAM PAYS FULL RATES


and present the course Of coin-making
to the finished product. Paper money will
also be made by experts from the bureau
or engraving and printing.
The Agricultural department will show
Developments along lines of agriculture
on the Pacific coast and in Alaska, the
preservation of forests. good road maxi
ing, etc. The Department of Commerce
and Labor will devote special attention
to fisheries, the improvement and safe
guard to navigation and show data af-
fecting commercial and labor interests.
The Postoffice department will transfer
It's entire museum to the exposition, be-
sides establishing n model postoffice in
connection Herewith, while the Depart
ments of Justice and State will make at
t~ractive collective exhibits of state and
judicial and papers relative
to the early organization of the govern
ment and the executive departments.
The Navy department will transport to
the exposition models of all the battle
ships and cruisers. the model of dry dock
Dewey, guns and ordnance equipment.
models of every type of gun made for
the navy since its organization. together
with historic relics of the Inflated Maine
and the entrance Of Dewey into Manila
harbor. During the exposition season the
Pacific squadron will lay in harbor, where
visitors can go aboard and view some Of
the largest of Uncle Sans fighting vos-
sells.
wireless TeIesraphy.
Wireless telegraphy has made great
strides within the last few months. There
have been several vessels which have
sent out the distress sign, thereby calling
to their aid other ships which might
never have known of the danger but for
the wonderful method of transmitting
communications through the other. but
in every instance II has been noticed
difficulty has arisen in locating the di-
rection from which the distress signs
have been sent. One of the foremost in
vestigators of wireless telegraphy and it's
possibilities in the United States is Mr..
Elliott Woods. superintendent of the
United States capitol. Mr.. Woods, who
has perhaps the best wireless receiving
outfit anywhere in the country, is ex-
perimenting now with a device for To-
eating the direction from which such a
message may come. Briefly describing
IL, it is a device by which through the
aid of a cone-shaped contrivance at the
head of a mast the operator can turn an
auxiliary receiving wire in all directions
and thereby ascertain just exactly whence
the signal comes.
A homely description of the idea is
this. Place a funnel on the top of a
mast with an aerial string through that
funnel arranged so as to make 1t possible
to turn any direction and there you
have 1t.
Cody FavOrs Duty on OIL.
While oil and water are not supposed to
mix very well, Colonel william +. Cody,
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have made a successful mixture of oil and
buttermilk. Colonel Cody is in Washington
at the present time to renew acquaintance
with old friends in the army with whom he
was associated for many years, and Incl
dentally to keep an eye on the tariff bill
so far as it relates to the countervailing
duty of petroleum and its products. The
colonel has recently acquired some noto-
riety because of his Partially towards but
termilk as a beverage, but he has gained
more of a reputation as an oil producer.
The colonel is enthusiastic as to the prod
ucts of the western oil fields. He has very
large interests in Wyoming and he declares
that that state will soon rival the Okla
homa-Kansas field. which is at present the
other oil producers is fearful that II pc
10 ~ pt obSOihNNiS AANt
there will be a slump in the oil market.
The enormous production in the Mexican
field, while not at present a menace to the
United States producers, certainly will be
II there is no tariff bar against Mexican
oils coming to this country. The Mexican
government imposes a duty on American
oils and their products and even though
the countervalling duty be maintained this
would afford no protection should the Mex
lean authorities dC1ided to place petroleum
products on the free list in that country.
Still Colonel Cody thinks that the future
Of the oil fields of the west tbs very prom
Using and that much win be added to the
wealth of the state OF Wyoming through
It's oil fields. As to irrigation, he declares
that the government works will add enorm-
ously TO the agricultural wealth of all the
arid and semi-arid regions Of the country
which can be supplied with water. and he
expresses the same belief hat In spite of
the opposition which the Irrigation project
met at first that no act of congress has
done so much for the west as the irrigation
projects now in course of construction will
eventually bring 10 this country.