Salt Lake Herald | 1902-01-09 | Page 9 | Fog Seriously Interferes with Operation of Telegraph Wires

FO SERIOUSLY Y INTERFERES IN WITH i OPERATION OF TELEGRAPH WIRES C A i Parker superintendent of tele ja the Denver Rio Grande system is Jn in Salt 1 Investigating the fog that is VT the valley and endeavor that will save AH h road from embarrassment in conditions arising in ut Mr Parker makes no secret of that the existing conditions ng all the railroads in inI I territory to the extent of communication al at ass Impossibility fog to Is so dense that it forms M we call all a cross on the wires he be heIn beI I In Ill other words its operation is to make all aU the wires practically one so that everything Is jumbled up The only precaution against it 11 is insulation insulation tion and our wires are as perfectly p insulated as any in the country We Ve have Bave six wires between this city and Grand Junction strung on two on each pole Through this fortunate circumstance we ne have been able to select three wires comparative comparatively ly Iy far apart and are using them with without without out difficulty Two are used in train dispatching and the third in commer commercial commercial cial dat work The Trie remaining three wires are dead so 80 as not to interfere Through this system we have been able to pro proceed proceed proceed almost as a though nothing no thinE had happened