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Show Goshen Gets New Dial Phone System This Week Utah's 62nd telephone exchange was established this week in Goshen Gosh-en when the new dial system was placed in operation, according to John W. Snell, District Manager for the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. Before the new office was completed, com-pleted, this community had only six telephones which were connected con-nected to a long distance line terminating ter-minating in the Payson office. Enough dial equipment has been installed to provide one, two and four party service to about 100 customers cus-tomers in Goshen. Twenty-two customers cus-tomers living in Elberta have also been connected to this new exchange. ex-change. In addition to the new building and dial equipment, a completely new outside line distribution network net-work had to be erected to connect each telephone with the central office. This consisted of 180 poles, 2 miles of cable, 50 miles of steel and copper wire and required 3750 man hours to install.' The entire project required an expenditure of about $60,000. New telephone numbers consisting consist-ing of a "prefix" name of CRest-wood, CRest-wood, followed by five numerals have been assigned for the new office. This numbering system- is rapidly being adopted in other exchanges ex-changes in the state and eventually eventual-ly all telephones in the nation will have this uniform numbering. The establishment of this new exchange is one of the final steps in the completion of the company's 1954 construction program which has required an expenditure of over ten million dollars to expand and improve telephone for the citizens of Utah, the district manager said. |