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Show Will Not Remove Its Exchange. Regardless of any reports to the cou-jtraryitiuay cou-jtraryitiuay bo stated with authority that the Rocky Mountain Hell Telephone company Is not going to remove its exchange ex-change fiom Lehl and make American Fork the switching station for Lehl and Pleasant Grove. On the contrary, the Boll is going to strengthen the exchange here, it will improve the service whsre- i 9KjHlnt will establish a new 'W"S'?e'i!Pleant-UroTts " -' These announceincnts ncre made by Jool L. Priest, woo is itctingus publicity agent for tho company, and who was In Lehl last week. Mr. Prieet etid it was the policy ot the Bell management in towns that are as progressive as Lehl, to maintain individual exchange. In this nay It la possible to render prompt and efficient service and such "eiviee is possible in no otbet way. '.'For example," sold Mi. Prit-M, "anv man who is convcisnut with modern telephone practice, can tell yuu that it is nut practicable to renter thu business of two or threo thiivlng little cities in one exchange. It is not possible to combine them and at the haum time to give tho public, the tlual arbiter, its due. Knowing thie, thu I'ell lmi for yeari maintained an exchange in Lehl and it will continue to uiaint.iin one hor. "I am Informed that u cable system of considerable extentjs onnof Ihc improvements im-provements contemplated fui l.elii in the Immediate future. As your reader are doubtless aware, cabled gicntly facilitate and improve telephone con vuisatious. Where wires me ptiung in open circuit theie is eoiiMideinbly nunc danger of Interruption by Miuiim ami other adveruu atiuospheilc coiidttiuus than where they are in cablon. The best way to give a set vice that is continuously continuous-ly excellent is to use cahlen, and this the Hell pioposes to d". "As has been said, the l.ehi exchange has been in existence for Kourething like leu years. Dining that peiiod the people here have lespunded in a liberal way to the Hell's ellurts to keep them in constant communication with ore another aud with the outside world. It is easy to believe tli.it imiiroveni'.'nts (n the toll ami the local fervice will result re-sult in a largely Inei eased p.Uiouae. " Mr. Priest has been for nearly twenty years in the nonspaper liialue.e, the last six of w hlch have been spent in the employ of the Salt Lake Herald. Lately he has been editorial w liter on that paper and ho will return to bis newspaper news-paper duties as soon as he has completed com-pleted the organization of a publicity bureau for the Hell company. "My telephone woik bus bwn worth while," said Mr. Prieit, "be'-ame it Iras opened my eyei to the extent of the Hftcky Mountain Hell eyMetii. Fiom a small beginning only a score uf ye.tr ago tho system has grown until the four states of Utah, Idaho, M'youilni! and Montana are literally honeycombed witli wires. Tlime are 60,uOO odd miles ol wlrninthe Hell system in constant operation and every milu Is open at all times to the use of subscribers," rf rsTf |