Show SERVICE WILL BE R M B telephone co plans improvements over will be expended in cable poles switchboard and office equipment the mountain bell tele phone is contemplating c in richfield over feet of lead cable his I 1 teen ten received here and distributed on linn alain ind center streets among the improvements improvement will be the removal of the central offie office tc the rooms now occupied by the keenes cement eon con ganv in the J E dark clark building next door to the reaper office here will be installed 1 I new switchboard with aith commodious and wll boll appointed quarters for the operator and office force the intention is to cable all of ce center liter and main alain streets and do away with so many single wires on the poles of these streets this will involve the installation of feet of cable thi re N will al be 15 feet of pair cable 2070 feet of pair 2870 feet of pair 1561 i feet of au pair it is estimated that thi will take care of the business section of the city for hearg ears to come this cable is a rn mastery astery to the in initiated and yet it is a simple arrangement the cable has encased within it a certain number of pairs of small copier cop er wires to m which aich the service wires from the various telephones are connected an innovation for richeld will be the conduit work from the main alain line in front of 0 the office cipe will be used here and the main cable will be laid from the pole into these pipes underground and conducted into the main office this is where the pair cable will be used on center street a ne new pole line will tie he erected and the cable will be hung there on the steel messenger wire the value 0 tire the lable cable will be about and the installation and improvements contemplated will cost an equal amount making over worth of improvements which the company will make in richfield the telephone exchange here was a losing proposition for years when manager kleppler was placed in charge there was still a big balance on the wrong side of the ledger it speaks volumes for mr heppler a management that this is now one of the leading county exchanges esith anees in the tate state these prop proposed sed improvements will give richfield a better service than ever the recent laange in rates ates of long dih distance tance communication 9 a decided raise for richfield as is the minimum f harge charge is 1 I 10 IO this works a hardship hird ship at this point the comuti officials declare that while the now rites rates caused 1 a I raise for a small percentage that they are re a decided reduction for a large parc percentage niage of the mountain system the entire system was veas taken into n the matter ot of revising the rates some parson writing from mertrue to the K R M B compin asad fo foi information as tu to a loial eistein the corpany company ant the de sired aired information and follows followed 3 this up ly by sending men to cooperate coo pente with the local people two offers were made for a service at one was that the R P at B company would institute an exchange at monroe for an n agreed number of sub or th the people there could in ill continued on page 8 |