 In a January 1873 interview printed in the same paper, Loomis was quoted as saying that during the previous summer he had "telegraphed by my imperfect experiments in the most satisfactory manner", "on the spurs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Virginia, at a mountain elevation of about thirteen hundred feet, with kites let up with a small copper wire of about five hundred feet in length.The signals were perfect, as indicated with a galvanometer at the two stations, when the connection was made with the earth completing the circuit".Fifteen years after Mahlon Loomis' death, his older brother George wrote an account about his brother's activities.