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Show HAWAII AND U. S. SOON TO BE LINKED BY NEW UNDERWATER CABLE Hawaii and the main land Qf thee eUnited States are soon to be linked by a 2,400 m.ile under- -water telephone cable according to Joseph R. Warburton, local manager of the Mountain States Telephone Co. The cable will be laid this summer from Point Arena, Calif., to the island of Oahu. Twin submarine cables, capable cap-able of carrying 36 simultaneous conservations, will be laid by the cable ships Monarch and Ocean Layer. The off shore shallow portion por-tion of the cable was laid last ApriL The deep-sea phase of the project was scheduled to begin July (17, with the arrival of the Monarch 10 miles off Point Arena. Are-na. The Monarch will lay 1,900 miles of cable and. rendezvous 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 procedure will be reversed re-versed for laying of the second cable. Many Utah people will be benefited ben-efited by the improved service brought about by this $37,000,000 project being undertaken by the Bell Telephone System and the Hawaiian Telephone Company, as several calk a day are placed to the Islands from this area. |