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Show Telephone ;'e to . ItUtahns naad the main land of .:ej States are soon to ;by a 2,400 mile under-yp'tone under-yp'tone cable according to C. A. Yeates, District Manager Mana-ger of the Mountain States Telephone Company. The cable will be laid this summer from Point Arena, California to the island of Oahu. Twin submarine cables, capable cap-able of carrying 36 simultaneous simultan-eous conversations, will be laid by the cable ships Monarch and Ocean Layer. The off shore shallow portion of the cable was laid last April. The deep-sea phase of the project is scheduled schedul-ed to begin July 17, with the arrival of the Monarch 10 miles off Point Arena. The Monarch will lay 1,900 miles of cable and rendevous with Ocean Layer near Hawaii. The Monarch will buoy the cable and sail for Honolulu. The Ocean Layer will pick up the buoyed cable and continue laying to Oahu. This proceedure will be reversed for laying of the second cable. Many Utah people will be benefited by the improved service ser-vice brought about by this $37,-000,000 $37,-000,000 project being undertaken under-taken by the Bell Telephone System and the Hawaiian Telephone Tele-phone Company ,as several calls a day are placed to the islands is-lands from this area. |