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than the wire equipments, where the volume of business is not too great, and the distance warrants its use,
Excellent results are reported from Alaska, where a wire equipment would be well-nigh impossible, owing to the heavy sleet and snow-storms, and to the further fact that
Fig. 25.—Complete Portable Outfit.
the natives steal the wires. It is but natural that the wireless should be installed in districts where there has previously been no telegraph system whatever, and for this reason its use 1s common in sections like Central and South America.
No force of linemen 1s required m connection with a wireless equipment, and so long as the station itself remains in working order, floods, snow-storms, tornadoes,
