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Show POSTAL FOR SALTLAKE New Company's WITes Should Be Here Within Two Months. William H. Baker, vice-president and general manager, and i J. Nally, general gen-eral superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Tele-graph company, are in the city making arrangements to put that company on an operating basis In Salt Lake within the next two months, to compete with the Western Union. The lines running' from here will be to Cheyenne, Wyo., and Butte, Mont, giving that company a transcontinental service. It Is understood that the Postal company com-pany has offered the' Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company 7 per cent of the gross cost of the latter's lines for the privilege of putting a cross bar on each telephone pole between Salt Lake and Cheyenne, and Salt Lake and Butte. In case this proposition is turned down, xhe Postal will run its own lines, and wnl not get in here until September. Septem-ber. Mr. Nally and Mr. Baker were the guests of Judge O. W. Powers at a dinner at the Commercial club last night. . . |