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Show Telephone Lines To Be Rebuilt M. S. T. A T.ro.Mcil Willi I'll) Council lu Special Session and Afrrce On New Plan of Distribution. Special Session of fit) Council Also Transacts Other lliislness. For the past ten days Mr. C. C. lobson, an engineer for tho Mouutluu itnlcB Telephone & Telepraph company, com-pany, has been In l.elil drawing plans for a new telephone Hystcm which the company will commence to erect. Mr. A, S. Peters with Mr. Hobson, met .vlth tho City Council Tuesdny evening and submitted the plan which will be followed. It provides for a trunk cnblo running along Main Street each way "roiu tho company's olllce. From this milk line, running oast and west, there will bo branch cables running lorth and south on each alternate street. The north and south branch cables will run on 1st Fast, 3rd Hast, th Fast, etc., also on 1st West, 3rd West, Fifth West, etc. From Uicbo IIuob feeds will bo run enst- and west through tho blocks to tho telephone jsers on altornnto streets lu which .hero arc no polo linos. Uranchlng 'eedors will lend from tho north and louth lines Into tho mldd'o ot tho jlock, and thoro to tho back ot nil tho loines on tho block. This system will nenn that there will bo n polo line m but ouo of tho four aides of each block, which means that thcro will bo 10 telephone lines on three-fourth of ,ho streets lu tho mnln platted part A thu city. It will bo necessary to erect about lirco po'os on tho Interior of ench block, from which lines will bo run io tho thrro sldeB of thu block on vhlch thcro are no poles. Now polee will bo used In constructing the now lino, excepting on Main Street ami first i;asi. uu Main uic lino win remain re-main na it Is and on First KaRt tho )ld Independent cnblo on tho west side will bo iniido to do tho work, On all Mher streets, tho Hues will bo now. Tho through Hues running front Salt l.ako City to Provo, and other towns vlll not come through tho city as at jresonl, but will go down the Stato oad. Those toll lines for l.ehl's uso vlll probably como down Second West o Fourth North and then down First Vest to tho central olllce. Tho plana being formulated will nko caro of tho city's Increased busl-oss busl-oss for the next ten or twenty years, ml when completed will give tho city no of the best systems of any city n tho west. Nearly all tho poll Hues m tho enst and west streets will bo nkeii out and those lu tho center of ho streets will bo moved to tho sides, .vhlch will wonderfully Improve the Ity's streets for general travel, Tho Council voted to havo Wines 'ark cleaned off for the "Clean Town" ontest and to assist tho committee .i several other respects, chief among vhlch will bo asking tho Suit Lake louto for several car loads of gravel o till up certain holes on Stato street tear tho plcklo station. ' o |