| Show ALL NEW PHONES I FOR SALT LAKE LAKEi i Improvements and Extensions to Telephone System OVERHEAD WIRES COME DOWN t i BUSINESS BLOCKS FOR FO THIRD SOUTH STREET STREETt t In preparation of nd its It plans plaits pl 18 to lo expend ever over halt half a a million dollars in the tha ex extension d tension of or its Us toll ton lines and general im improvements to Us Its system during this year the Rocky Mountain Bell Tele Telephone Telephone phone company is contracts for furnishing materials and equipment Already much of the construction work is under way but it will be well veli toward next fall before many of the improvements in this city the central point of ot the system will m be in a state of ot perfection Not the least important Imp of the tele telephone telephone telephone phone improvements for tor the Salt Lake or central part of the system system system tem will be the addition to the roof 1 building on State street for ground will trill be broken in a few b fA c ys The addition wilt will nearly double the tle capacity of the building and in the new portion porton will wil be installed the great switchboard which with the new tele telephones t telephones le phones will wi cost cof not less than General Manager Murray Murry stated yes yesterday yesterday yesterday that the new switchboard will willbe wi willbe be the most modern and complete piece of or equipment m fn n the country count The manufacturers report r ort progress on the engineering which cpus calls Us for com corn complete complete piete details I The in installation of pf the new nev n v switchboard in involves les the placing of large lare storage bat batteries batterIes batteries teries in the enlarged building Change to I 1 i ew w Telephones Probably the portion of the new ne work which will be most appreciated by the telephone subscribers will WI be the sub substitution substitution of of new Instruments without auxiliary batteries for tor every ever one of or orthe the couple of thousand old Instruments Instrument now in use in and adjacent to this city el The new instruments will wi be the most modern and will wl further increase the th efficiency of or the tile service At this tIme cables arc are being drawn through he underground conduits in inthe inthe inthe the business district and as soon as this work Is done this spring g and the connections are made the overhead wires Ires will 1 be relieved cleved This is the first step toward taking down the mass of or wires in the business streets The line lne to Frisco Fisco and Milford was as completed during dr ng the week und and con construction construction is now going on for the ex extensions extension extensions tensions tension to the copper copper mines of ot the Cactus Imperial O 0 K Harrington Hickory and Old Od Hickory companies each in separate districts dIstrict in Beaver county The exchanges at Milford Miford and Beaver will wiil wi soon be installed Additional al Circuits An additional circuit is going in be between between between tween Nephi and Mt Pleasant and be between between tween Richfield and Kimberley thus hus leaving the h copper wire from Salt Lake to Beaver for tor through business bu Preparations are under way for re rebuilding rebuilding building the te line from Sat Salt Sail Lake to Pleasant Grove with poles and additional wires and when this work is done greater gater facilities will willbe willbe willbe be afforded to communicate to and from the south and southwest Material is arriving for the te connection lion tion U n between n Blackfoot and Mackey Macke Mackeand and from a point pint on the line lne to Halley Hailey H le from which place piece pl ce there ther ther will wi be a con connection connection connection of or the entire entre l system with ih central and western wester Idaho The closing of this gap gp will give direct connection conn with wih Boise and ad Portland Manager Murray Murry is studying stud the sit situation si situation in the endeavor to find the most desirable route for an extension of the system to Thunder hunder Mountain |
