Show IMPORTANT CONTRACTS I Telephone Company Has Secured I Some New Feeders I BUTTE TO GREAT FALLS NEW SYSTEM TO BE BUILT FOR THE BOSTON AND MONTANA Deal Has Just Heeii Closed liy Tclc giapliFirst National Bank of Ncplil has Pniil n Second Dividend Thin Year Mills of the Oregon Lumber Company Are Operating in Full Although the Lumber Trade IK Not Brisk Movement of Cattle from the Southern 1art of the Territory Commenced Yesterday Yester-day General JJusincMS News One of the heaviest contracts yet undertaken < by the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company was closed up by telegraph yesterday and within the next few days the construction of an independent telephone line between be-tween the Montana cities of Butte I te cte and Great Falls will be commenced by the telephone company and the work pushed to an immediate completion I This independent system construction is a rather novel departure but it means that the Boston and Montana Mining company is desirous of securing se-curing personal connection between its mines at Butte and smelters at Great Falls and as expense is no obstacle orders have been given to make the system as perfect as is possible pos-sible for science and mone The line i to be a double circuit and in its construction 60000 pounds of No 10 copper wire will be used Both single wires will be 175 miles In length making a tretch of copper wire of 350 miles All of the other materials for the system have also been ordered and by the time the pole construction is well under headway head-way the first deliveries will be taking place I All negotiations regarding this contract con-tract and the final acceptance were effected either over the wires or through the mails When General Superintendent Murray of the telephone tele-phone company was in Montana sometime some-time since he called upon the Boston Montana people but in the absence of the manager nothing was said officially of-ficially regarding ithe proposed construction con-struction of the independent system for the company Instead President Wallace wrote to the manager of the mining company who was then in New York and made a proposition covernig the entire ground Within a few hours of the receipt of the communication com-munication in New York the contract was closed and the orders placed for the necessary wire and materials When completed this will be one of the most complete systems in the country I will be used exclusively bY the Boston Montana Made Another Favorable Contract Still another contract has just been entered into by the telephone company com-pany with the people in the north and through the provisions of this second agreement the Montana system will be materially enlarged Sdme years ago a company was organized and constructed 125 miles of lines between Great Falls and Lewiston fitting the system out with instruments upon which the patents had expired When completed the lines refused to work and now the company has contracted with the Rocky Mountain Bell people to operate their system connection being made with the Great Falls exchange ex-change of the old telephone people The operation of the Lewiston branch will give communication with a great stretch of very choice country MaUiiifT Animal Repairs For some time past the field forces of the telephone company has been out through the territory repairing lines and inspecting exchanges This is the annual overhauling and it will require some time yet before the Utah system is in perfect condition Many new long distance instruments are going in and the satisfaction is general gen-eral |