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Show TELEPHONE AUDITOR HERE ON BUSINESS Roderick Reid of Denver, auditor of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company, of which the local concern is a part, was in this city yesterday on company com-pany business, and was the guest of A. H. De Nyke, division general manager, and Charles C. Campbell, district man- , ager. He stated that his company's sys- . tern extends through Montana, Idaho, j Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, and covers 22 per cent of the area of the United States, serving- 3 per cent of the entire population of the nation. na-tion. "Every year," said Mr. Reid, "we are going into development work and reconstruction recon-struction of our present system. This year the amount to be spent in Salt Lake City will be to take care of the general growth of the business in this locality, such as more underground cables and additional ad-ditional switchboard equipment. In this western country there is a tendency to growth, and we must keep abreast of the times. In this city the growth of our , system has been steady and consistent ' and has exceeded our most optimistic ex- 1 pctations. There are now a great many j i more stations here than in 1915." |