The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-05-13
BIG WIRELESS
CORPORATION
IS FOR NJ Ed

SEATTLE, May ll.--Including every
corporation previously organized in the
United States to put into practical use
the principle of wireless telephony, the
North American Wireless Corporation
has Just been organized under the laws
of Maine, creating a wireless trust"
which absolutely controls all the basic
patents of the wireless telephone and
the sparkling wireless telegraph, De
Forests latest improvement of the
Marconi inventions. The consolidated
company has begun to spread its
branches over the west half of the con
tinent having already chain of es-
tablished wireless telephone long dis
lance stations along the Atlantic and
the Great Lakes and upon the latest
may be issued from the New York
headquarters, eighty western cities. in
climbing Everett. are marked as the 10
cation for long distance stations. The
plan of the North American Corporation
is said to be the building of a system
as powerful as the Bell Telephone sys-
TEN is in the field of wire communica-
ton BY the control of patents, the new
trust is believed to have free rein in
the wireless field, and competition will
be practically impossible although the
wireless people operate through the air,
which was formerly considered free
medium and they have no franchises to
operate under.
News of the combination of all the
wireless concerns has been brought to
light by the trip of Dr. DeForest, best
known wireless inventors, through the
West where he is establishing long
distance stations, giving demonstrations,
and planning laboratories for the man
ufacture of wireless apparatus
DeForest, in consideration for his
patents, has been made chief engineer
of the wireless trust, and upon his won
derful work the success of the new sys-
TEN of communication will largely rest
He is at present in Seattle, having es-
tablished a line of stations westward
through Canada from Winnipeg to
Vancouver. From Washington he will
continue through Oregon and California,
then eastward via Denver and Salt
Lake City to Des Nloines, where work
will begin on establishing the Missis-
sippi Valley system. DeForest is ap
parently laying foundation from which
the wireless corporation will develop
and spread out as soon as the CONNER
cial value of the wireless telephone and
the improved wireless telegraph is
demonstrated.
The capital stock of the Maine cor
poration is only ten million dollars, in
dicating an intention of keeping the
control of the wireless business in a
few hands The consolidation includes
the principle companies. The Radio
Telephone company; Commercial Radio
company; Central Wireless company;
Atlantic Radio company; Pacific Radio
company; North American Radio COM
pany; DeForest Radio company; Uni
yersal Wireless corporation; Great
Lakes Radio Telephone company and
Continental Wireless Construction COM
pany. These companies controlled all
the wireless patents extant Some OF
them have sold stock in small lots to
investors in various states, and these
stockholders will be beneficiaries by the
combine. Stock in the new trust Is
all paid in except s4,0O0O,OOo worth
which Is still on the market General
Benjamin NJ, Whitlock OF New York i;