Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-12 | Page 2 | Postal Officials Visit Salt Lake

POSTAL OFFICIALS VISIT SALT LAKE Thougtit That Now Telegraph Company Com-pany Will Enter This City Within With-in a Few Weeks. WITHIN forty or sixty days Salt Lake will probably have a new telegraph service to compete with the Western Union. William Wil-liam H. Baker, vice-president and general gen-eral manager of the Postal Telegraph and Cable company, and E. J. .Nally, general superintendent, are now In Salt Lake making arrangements by which the company will be operating In this city within the next six weeko.- It la understood that the company has made an offer to the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company to pay 7 per cent of the gross cost of the latter's lines for the privilege of putting a cross-piece on each telephone pole between be-tween Salt Lake City and Cheyenne and Salt Lake and Butte. Mesurs. Baker and Nally are stopping at the Alta club and Mr. Baker was Interviewed last nlghL In answer to questions he said that he and Mr. Nally were just looking around and preparing to make arrangements to extend their line from Cheyenne here and from hero on to Butte. "We shall then have a trans-continental line," eald Mr. Baker, and declined to make any further statements. state-ments. In caso the offer made by the Postal company to tho Bell Telephone company should not be accepted the new telegraph tele-graph line will not be In here till tho beginning of September, but the arrangement ar-rangement outlined above will enable them to bo in operation In sixty days at most. It is thought that there Is every probability of the deal going through. ; Neither of the gentlemen mentioned above would discuss the statement coming com-ing from tho East of a combination between be-tween the Postal and tho Bell Telcphono people, and the Western Union and the independent telephone companies. Mr. Nally and Mr. Baker were guests of Judge Powers at a dinner at the Commercial Com-mercial club last evening.