Eureka Reporter | 1905-02-24 | Page 3 | Burying the Lines

burying the lines few people know j what Is done I 1 when a telephone company buries its lines to begin with the wires them selves must be combined in cables the making of which involves many inari cate and expensive processes the finished cable looks like a lead pipe and indeed that is exactly what it Is but while most pipes are made for the conveyance of liquids this one must be so tight and thoroughly sealed that not a trace of moisture can work its way into it the pipe la filed with hundreds of wires each wrapped in a covering of paper the dry air in the folds of ae wrappings and in the substance of the paper itself affording the most perfect during its manufacture while it is being transported aiom place to place and drawn into conduits under the streets and afterward whenever it is necessary to touch it tor purposes of making connections or repairs the cable must be handled as carefully as it its sheath were made of glass tor a hole the size of a pin in the lead covering means the ruin of a whole section