The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-05-16
NORTHWEST NEWS
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| Fargo, to connect at ST. Paul with the
| Continental Wireless system of the
Great Lakes and be carried along to
New York, is the ambitious plan of
| Thomas E. Clark, the first man who
ever sold wireless instruments, and
present manager of the Continental
system. Clark is now in Seattle
/ erecting a station, and says that with
/ in two or three months he will have
| this city and the other two leading
centers of the northwest connected
with the east by wireless. The con-
| tinental system already controls the
wireless business of the Great Lakes,
with stations in fifty cities and on
200 steamships.
| Clark is a wireless inventor with
an eye to business. He was selling
apparatus for exhibit purposes with
in few weeks after the first success
full demonstrations of wireless tele-
graphy had been made, and he has
been making money out of the BUSH
ness ever since. He promises trans
continental telegraph rates so per
cent cheaper than the wire compan-
les offer. The Continental company
will meet opposition in the North
west in the United Wireless, which
has stations on a number of ships
on the Pacific. but does little over
land business. Clark has also per-
fected a wireless telephone instru-
ment, but admits that at present 1t
has not reached the point of CONNER
cial efficiency The distances over
which it will operate are too small,
which is true of every wireless tele-
phone yet invented. Clark has in
struments with him in Seattle, and
l believes that in time the wireless
telephone will be as practical as the
telegraph is now. Mr.. Fred H. Shoe
maker has been made local agent
for the wireless system.
Lumbermen of the northwest have
been entering repeated protests
against the report of the Washing
ton legislative investigating commit
tee, which declared that the state
land office has in years sold state
timber land for much less than its
market value. The lumbermen as
sert in reply that the value of tim
Der lands have risen so rapidly IN
this state during ten years, that there
is no comparison between the price
at which state lands sold then and
market values today. George Long
of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company
of Tacoma, cites the case of 4S0
acres purchased from the state in
1901, located in section 16, township
16. range 5 east, for $7,087.50, or,
$14.76 an acre. The same company
bought up a lot of homestead claims
in the same township at the same
time, and paid an average of $11.17
an acre for a total of 4751 acres of
private land Thus the state re-
ceived more than the market price.
OF course such prices sound laugh
able today, but they represented
good value at the time. If the state
had Kept its land until today, 1t
would have profited exceedingly, just
as the lumber company did by buy
ing when timber was cheap. But
the lumber men don't like to have
the investigating committee report in
fer that they have jobbed the state
at any time.
Two recent discoveries of natural
wealth in the state of Idaho are
drawing many people there from the
northwest. as we'll as from the east
One is the discovery of natural gas
near Hope, Idaho, and the other a
discovery of gold in the ten mile dis
trict on the Clearwater river, not far
from Sites and Grangeville. Gold
seekers are pouring into the Panhan-
, die from Spokane and other points,
, while a lot of unstaked land near
Hope has been taken up. and CAPT.
, tai is being raised to develop the
natural gas discoveries, which may
also mean the location of oil.
! The state grain inspection law Of
the state of Washington is in dan
ger of becoming entirely obliterated,
and a great many farmers and grain
= dealers who have found 1t an I'M
necessary nuisance are highly pleased
r at the decision of the supreme court
, last week, sustaining a Tacoma case
in which the court held that when
. the shipper of grain was also the con-
signee, there is no need of any state
D inspection. The Northern Pacific
Railway defended the case in the low
:. err court, being responsible for the
inspection according to the state law.
/ Then the state railway commission
4 took it up to the higher court, but
with the same result, the law was
found unnecessary when any firm
e or individual was shipping its own
: grain. The amount Of grain inspec-
: ton will be reduced to a quarter OF
q what 1t is now. as most OF tie grain