Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-02-26
WE ARE ENTERING AGE
OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPH
A Means of Communication and OF
Averting Railroad and Steam
ship Wrecks.

Russell Sage said: "The time is
near when the wireless telegraph
will supplant every telegraph cable
in existence"
Five years ago wireless teleg-
raphy" was looked upon as the idle
dream of Visionary" entitled to
little, If any, consideration from the
scientist, commercial man or capi-
talist. Today messages are sent over
land and sea for thousands Of miles
by means of wireless telegraphy.
Battleships, ocean steamers and
water craft of all kinds are being
equipped with wireless apparatus.
Governments in all parts of the
world are adopting the wireless sys-
TEN, making contracts for steamer
and land stations for government
work, and communication by wire
,ess telegraphy is in daily use. Can
YOU, in view of this rapid growth in
wireless telegraphy, intelligently
compute the value of wireless tele-
graph stocks in five years hence. One
hundred dollars invested in Bell Tel
cphone at its incipiency has paid
S201 900 in dividends. Edison EleC-
trical advanced from 500 to $4,000
per share In one year. Merganthaler
Linotype, cable and telegraph stocks
have made fortunes for all investors
With wireless telegraphy coming
rapidly into universal use, both over
land and sea; with the time fast ap-
preaching when its adoption will be
made compulsory, for the protection
of life and property Omitted Wire
less Telegraph" stocks today pre-
sents the most plausible, sensible
and safe investment with better
founded reasons for yielding large
returns than any other stocks now
before the public "Unted Wireless
Telegraph stock has steadily ad-
yanced from about SS per share to |
its present price of $2j per share |
in the short space of about two years,
and orders are now issued that upon
passage of the bill requiring all
boats carrying passengers to equip
with wireless telegraph, which has
been passed by the lower house by
a vote of 81 to q, and been favor
ably reported upon by joint COM
mittee from both houses and is now
in the hands Of the senate and Is be-
Ing urged by President Roosevelt
through a special message imme-
iiately following the disaster of the
steamship Republic in which all on
board, over coo lives, were saved
on account of the boat being equip-
ped by wireless telegraph, the stock
IF the United Wireless Telegraph
Company will Immediately be ad-
,onced to $50 per share The most
'arcful and conservative business
men throughout the whole country
IRE Investing IN United Wireless,
.ulE realizing that It is only a qucs-
ion Of from two to five years until
he stock will be worth several
thousand dollars per share.
DO You know that Bell Telephone
tock sold at one time cheaper than !
he United Wireless stock Is todayo
I Is now worth $4,000 per share
Do You know that linotype stock was
II one time sold for Sl,OO per share?
{ is worth now $4,000 per share. 4
Do YOU remember the eject of West.
nshouso Air Brake stock when con.
ress passed the law compelling the
allroods TO use to- Il advanced =
rom S1oO to $4,000 per shar, dur.
ls that year Can you realize what
means when congress passes the
M which has already passed tho
'Ncr house requiring all ships TO
tsJall the wireless telegraph sys.
'm' This law is necessary for pro-
eion Of life and property. All gor.
.nwcnts are agltating II. Its Pas Y
'ee will take the stock ont OF the
'ach OF the average investor There
'e 100000 ships that will have ia
Sc It as an insurance requirement.
vast number Of islands OF the
orld must have it for communica. N
'n with each other and the world
b YOU realize that the stations at