Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-07-29 | Page 3 | Salt Lake May Talk with 475 Nearby Towns

SALT LAKE MAY TALK WITH NEARBY TOWNS Telephone Connections Now Complete to That Number Num Num- Number ber of o Cities in Utah Wyoming Idaho and nd Montana The line from Casper to Lander Is completed all 11 but the link between Muskrat and said Pre President George Y 1 Wallace of oC the Rocky Mountain Moan Moun tam tain Bell Telephone company toda today talking of the ea east t and west vest line through Wyoming Next year the connection will be made south But where It will strike Rock flock Springs Point of or Rocks or Rawlins I cannot yet tell you It will probably pa pass s through the Miners lIners Delight and South Pass countries A force Coree Casper Lauder wire to Thermopolis Ther- Ther of oC men Is now en engaged building a n line from the which will he be later late extended to a point near Red Lodge Mont making malting the first north an and south line through Y Wyoming with in the surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- connected How many cities and towns is Salt Lake now rounding States was asked of ot Mr Wallace The president had one of or his hisa a assistants look the matter up which elicited the Information that there were lOt towns to in Utah connected by telephone with Salt Lake in Montana five eighty In Wyoming seventy se In Idaho and about half haIr a dozen each cach in Colorado Colorado Colo Cob learned that there are arc about rado and Oregon Oreg-on At the same time it was miles of or toll line over subscribers employees with a payroll of ot a I