Show I TELEPHONE LINE TO COLORADO May bo Built by Way of Price Next Year Supt Murray Says General Superintendent Murray of the telephone l company returned yesterday yester-day from Chicago where he has been on a business trip accompanied by Mrs Murray Mr Murray said the new switchboard being prepared for the Butte Olllcc would be ready In May He arranged for considerable construction j construc-tion material for use on tho extensions and Improvements already outlined Mr Murray was asked relative to a possible lino to Price thus giving Salt Lake Fort Duchesne connections and said such a line would not at present give paying Intermediate stations but In the course of a year It might be built The Colorado telephone people were extending thxIr lines toward Grand Junction and at present have a local line between Grand Junction and Palisade and then from Denver to some point near Glenwood Springs The Intervening spaces will be tilled up in the course of the ensuing fourteen months and then there will be a likelihood likeli-hood of the Utah company extending a lint via Price to Grand Junction thus giving the Ulntah county people the connections they desire and giving Salt Lake also a Denver connection via western and central Colorado Mr Murray found business In good I condition In Chicago and said It was a pleasure to stand on the Randolph street bridge and sec green lake water flowing westward through the Chicago river and into the canal The lust time he stood on that bridge the water was of a horrible filthy black color and the smell was none of the choicest I Now there Is no smell I |