Show THE WESTERN UNION WILL INATTGTTBATE A NTOIBEB OF IMPROVEMENTS Superintendent Dickey Assistant Superintendent Su-perintendent Brooks and Manager Twiford of Ogden In Salt Lake Salt Lake City will soon rank among the metropolitan cities served by the Western Union Telegraph company Before Be-fore the end of iSiS the Postal Telegraph comrianv will extend its wires to Salt I Lake from Colorado and from Montana to complete a gap in another transconti nental circuit But it i not merely the coming of the rival line that ha Induced the Western Union to make the many large Improvements contemplated to its system in Utah at least that is what District Superintendent J J Dickey stated to a Herald reporter last evening at the Knutsford Mr Dickey arrived from Omaha yesterday yes-terday afternoon and with him came Assistant As-sistant Superintendent B Brooks and C A Parker from Denver and J B Twiford the manager of the Ogden office The party will remain over today and possibly a day longer When Superintendent Dickey was asked by the reporter what stgnittcance attached to his visit here he replied it meant that he and his associates were looking over the field preparatory to inaugurating a i I number of important improvements which I had long been contemplated The improvements ufgn provements would consist of extending several of the through wires to Salt Lakefront I Lake-front Ogden and likely also the installation 1 I installa-tion of a dynamo plant in this city These and other betterments would cost a large sum of money and require much time to I I accomplish but they would enable the Western Union to handle a prospectively I largely increased business at less expense than now Possibly Mr Dickey added Salt Lake will be made the repeating office I of-fice instead of Ogden and the improved and cheapened method of generating current cur-rent would yield many advantages in I handling the service Mr Dickey did not care to go into further details but he announced I II an-nounced that these projects would undoubtedly 1 un-doubtedly be carried through early In the I i new year whether the Postal Telegraph I I company becomes a bidder for Utah business I busi-ness or not I I The statements made by Superintendent i Dickey tends to conlirm the semiofficial I reports in circulation recently to the effect I that Salt Lake City would be favored as its mportance deserves in the telegraph I world I I |