Show THE TELEPHONE when electricity was first subdued and chained by franklin he had a white elephant on his hands this great man himself hardly knew to what uses the subtle fluid could be applied and the people of that age would have laughed to scorn the idea of utilizing it in long distance communication in in the generation of light and power still it has since been demonstrated that this is is one of the greatest and most useful discoveries ever made by man the first use to which electricity was put was in the establishment of the telegraph service the current being generated by chemical means then came the telephone in application a second cousin of the telegraph system sound currents reproducing the human voice taking the place of dots and dashes and then came the harnessing of electricity for the generation t of power of light 11 and heat the first telephones were crude in their construction and their use was limited to short distances now however their application is general many improvements have been made in them and in this day and age acre it is possible to use them most satisfactorily in communicating with points removed from each other many hundreds of miles the mining review is in receipt of a little pamphlet on the telephone issued by the ericsson telephone company of broadway new york this little work contains much interesting and useful information on the telephone its application and uses and mention is made of improvements lately added to this wonderful instrument while it is not generally generall y known still it is a fact that norway is practically the home of the telephone system the bell telephone company started in in 1880 and its success brought out a competitor which soon drove it out of the field which in 1885 was solely occupied by the christy christi ania ti telephone le phone company and in that country today toda y there are five chief or principal ex changes with about others working independently in austria the telephone is under government direction and ownership it is impossible to say which country leads in the use of the telephone but it was introduced into practical use in america at ab about out the same time that it came into general use in other lands and today it would be difficult to transact business in any city or town of any size or importance without the help of this great time saver and space annihilator business would come to a standstill without it and as for convenience it has no rival in fact its use is becoming so general so universal that the ingenuity I 1 of the inventor the scientist is being taxed to the utmost in making improvements to the system so that today it is as near perfect as one could wish for one ne of the latest improvements recorded being the utilization of an ail induction coil where the line of resistance is great another improvement of late is the redhead red head receiver which the ericsson company will be able to put on the market within the next sixty days and it is claimed that this is a superior instrument toane to any receiver now in use the application of electricity in its varied forms is a most moat interesting study it might be termed the science of the aae age in any event it is cutting an important figure iu mining matters in this western country and mining and fillmen will do well to keep po posted sted on new discoveries and inventions in which the utilization of the electric fluid plays an important part |