Springville Herald | 1952-04-03 | Page 3 | Springville Now has 2,000 Phones, Report Indicates

steadily climbed to the present all time record. This is indeed a milestone for Springville when one reflects that it was 71 years after the telephone was invented before the first half of the present number of telephones tele-phones were in service. The second half has been installed in only six years. "The accomplishment of these past few years are a source of pride to us in the telephone business busin-ess here and elsewhere, for greater strides have been made 'than anyone any-one ever forecast," Snell said. Springville Now Has 2,000 Phones, , Report Indicates The 2000th telephone was placed in service here in March, it was announced today by John W. Snell, district manager for the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. Starting with almost 600 when World War II broke out, the number num-ber of phones were increased slowly slow-ly while telephone equipment was being diverted to combat uses. When V-J day arrived, 825 phones were in use but shortly thereafter as wire, cable, central office equipment equip-ment and manpower became available avail-able for expansion the number