Show INDEPENDENT r PHONE PLANT EXPERT DISCUSSES LOCAL LOCALa SITUATION a i Gives Give Some Interesting Figures 55 On Probable Cost of System W W. ESmith of tho Electric company met with witha cS a n committee from tho the Ephraim Commercial Com Corn k mercial Club Tuesday and discussed the question of huts ta ling an independent ent ont telephone system in this city The apparatus which ho offered ta to install It 19 of tho the latest and most moat approved v f pattern as it Is ia to form what is known knon as a central energy system One Ono of tho the points pointe of superiority of this s s. s 8 s n is the tiro savIn jf f time tn in In Petting getting in to touch ch with tho tho operator This is done dono by merel merely raising tho from the tho holder Another of its advantages is said to bothe bo botho tho the cost of maintaining ita batteries h furnished by a storage battery located at tho the exchange Instead in instead in stead of by dry cell batteries located V in tho the residences On this system said 1 it is possible to have party four-party tho the operator can call one ono of tho the four I without disturbing any of the tho other three tirco This was represented I as botn being g a satisfactory residence service service ser ser- vice vivo but bu not advisable for business be because of tho the pO possibility of I lading the line lino in use Asked as to the cost of installing installing in in- stalling a 8 system stem of this kind Mr Smith replied that his company would agree to In install taU tho equipment nt at the then c nral c-nral n nral ral office fo for J This is t tD to toc c of a switchboard and distributing i ng fr frame me to provide against il a ro from lightning J Q a 1 ry y yan a ui Witch be bp is s l to consist of a n toll section and aid two ch se section ion can handlo subscribers subscribers' r lines and as already mentioned in some cases it will bo be possible to to i tV handle handlo four subscribers on ono one lib Hao I Tho The cost of installing he telephone s sand sand t I and wires would woul ace acc ding ding ing to estimate estimate esti estI- I mate mato cost not more than 12 per por is thought that at least subscribers would woul consent to install at an and accor according ing to i this conservative estimate tho the cost of installing tho lines and instruments world be bo 24 the total cost costo o of the plant 1200 In speaking of tho the telephones that aro aru contemplated in these plans Mr Smith said that tho the subscribers might select ono of three typos types Ono One of these Continued on page 8 |