| Show midland telephone company will extend metallic line to monticello the midland telephone company which during the past year carried on an extensive improvement campaign over its lines IP the moab district outlined a similar program for the ensuing year at the annual stockholders meeting held friday at grand junction during 1927 the will extend a copper metallic circuit from moab to monticello the distance being approximately 60 miles the monticello bluff line will also be greatly improved the company plans to connect its moab and monticello exchanges to all of the camps in the swiftly developing oil fields of southeastern utah and during the next few months will probably run lines to lockhart gibson lisbon and cedar mesa domes where drilling operations erat ions are under way work completed during the past year as a part of the companas comp anys construction st program includes a full copper circuit from moab to thomp sons built at a cost of over 75 miles of copper wire and 1200 new poles were used in this unit A cable circuit was installed in the city of moab feet of lead cable being used the coot of converting the moab line into a metallic circuit was over the two new circuits give moab as complete a telephone system as can be found anywhere the moab lines connect with the new transcontinental system built during the year by the mountain states telephone telegraph company and give moab the advantage of the very best telephone communication muni cation with the outside world during the year the midland company sold its old grounded line extending rom mack colo to green river to the mountain states company and abandoned the field to the latter company the midland is now concentrating its attention to improving its lines from thompsons Thomp sons south and will continue its betterment program until southeastern utah is thoroughly covered by a metallic system J W coram vice president and ager of the company attended the annual stockholders meeting held at grand junction and made a report of the business transacted and the improvement work done to date the business of the company has in crea sect during the past fifteen months and the outlook for the future is most promising with the constantly increasing ol 01 activities getting under way the midland company elected reelected re its old officers and directors HS follows M N due grand junction president J W corbin moab vice president and manager F C fruita secretary treasurer W J moer and W W campbell grand junction additional directors |
