Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-05-27 | Page 5 | Closes Telephone Gap

CLO CLOSES S TELEPHONE TELEPHONE GAP May II Soon Talk rai zilk From Atlantic tt Ia lit Ic to Pa PH- ele Republican Special Service May a. a 26 The 6 The Moyer Telephone Tel Tel- hone ephone company has commenced the construction of nf a telephone phone line Ine from flom Cr Crawford XII Neb to Lus Lush Lusk Wyo o The completion of this line lne will ivill wil mark tho the closing of or the lie the gap op of telephone communication com coin between the Atlantic antI and Pacific coasts At present one Ol Olcan can telephone ft fr tin Sl Sidney nc Neb e to NOW Xe Xe York by rela relaying messages and from Cheyenne to the lie Pacific coast coast Cheyenne Chey Chey- line enne and Sidney are arc 1110 mie miles apart and no phone communication exists from oin Cheyenne east lISt By tile lie le Crawford Crawford- LURk Lusk Lus k line hue lne messages can be e sent north from Cheyenne to Lusk thence to Sidney an and east cast from that point pint