Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-08-15
WIRELESS WILL
BE ESTABLISHED
WITHIN HUNDRED MILES OF
BROWNSVILLE PROBABLY NEAR
POINT ISABEL If PRICE OF LAND
IS RIGHT
TO BE HIGH POWER STATION on
SAN FRANCISCOCOLON LINE
ONE OF EIGHT IN l.. :. NAVY
WIRELESS SYSTEM

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within a limit of six months.
1t will be established 1T Point Isabel
if the price of the land il right.
The government is willing 10 pay fair
price for the land, but is not willing to
pay a fancy or tictitiouS price for the
land. Upon getting the land at reason
able price at fair valuation depends
the chance or rather the absolute surety
that Point Isabel gets the wireless sta
ton
The government agents Lieut.. 4. j.
Hepburn and Engineer &. A. Carlson of
the L. :. Navy. made 4 trip to Pt Isabel
yesterday and selected three diffcrcntlo-
cations which would do for tn ewirelesS
station These plats of land are from
twenty-five 70 forty acres in extent. They
belong to Charles Champion Of Isabel
and James B. Wells Of Brownsville Lieu
tenant Hepburn and Engineer Carlson
stated to a Herald representative. last
evening. upon their return from the coaSt
that they will recommend to the wireless
bureau that Il survey he made of these
plats and prices be asked on thcr from
the owners This viii take about three
months. AS soon as the department has
obtained title 70 the land. work will
begin on the station. 1t is estimated that
it will take two months to finish the con
struction Of the three towers and the in
stallation Of the station.
This means that very probably within
h. L., n
be the site of one of The fifty wireless
stations of the t. :. Navy department
According to tentative plans. til G sta
ton will comprise three towers. each
about three hundred and fifty feet high
Ii is expected at first to install a low
power station for which only two tow
crS will be necessary, but eventually a
high power station will be installed for
which three towers will be necessary. The
low power station will give communi-
cation AZ far as Washington. Havana.
Key West and probably Colon at night,
though by day il will not carry over three
hundred miles The high power station
to be installed will be second only TO
that at Arlington, which j. the mo>r
powerful wireless station in the entire
system. This will be the seventh high
power station 10 re erected by The govern
ment. AT the Arlington station this sum
mer messages were received direct from
Paris FRANCE.
The navy department now has about
fifty wireless stations from Maine to Col
on and from Panama to Alaska all IF
which, under the law passed Il year ago,
have been opened for commercial work.
This commercial work is accepted to com
pete with telegraph and telephone rates
for like distances. 1t is estimated that
the government can even lower these
rates, and that, when it is fund necessary
can practically put the telegraph compan-
les out Of business. which. however. is not
in contemplation.
The installation Of this station will
involve an expenditure Of about $50 600
Besides the towers and machinery or"
terS will be provided FIR the use Of the
force employed in the operation Of the sta
ton. About twelve men will he connect
ed with this station.
The installation of the wireless station
1T Point Isabel means that. by the time
the first | ght draft vessels pass through
the Panama canal. the l'5wer Rio Grande
valley country will be in direct connection
with the whole wide world by wireless tel
Iegraph.
4 Ii means the expenditure of thousands
Of dollars and the employment of over Il
dozen men to care for the station.
v IT means alS) a new location star on the
worlds man for the lower coast country.
this section. which cannot help but in
ure to the benefit Of the Brownsville c .un-
try