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Show I RANGERS CARRY TWO-AND-A-HALF I, POUNDJPHGNE A portable telephone, made of alu- B milium niul weighing 2 1-2 pounds, Bw tlio Invention of a Forest olllccr, H. 11. Ailnmg of .Missoula, Montana, will lie part of the regular equipment of Bm patrolmen on the National Forests tlio coming Benson. This Instrument Is regarded as n great Improvement p. over tlio set formerly used, which weighed ten pounds. BY A field man equipped with tills BB telephone, a few yards of light emer- V gency wire, and a short pleco of BB heavy wlro to mako the ground con- V nectlou can cut In nnywhere along H the more than 20,000 miles or Forest BY Service telephone lines nnd gel In BH touch with the headquirrtcrs of n V Supervisor or district Hanger. To Km talk, one cud of the emergency wlro V lH thrown over tho telephone lino, tlio V two ends'nro connected to tlio ground 1 wlro, tlio cud of which must bo thrust B I into the damp earth or In water. Con- B ' tact with tho lino wjro ig mado pos- B slblo by removal of the Insulation HHb from a fow inches of tho emergency B ( Tho Adams Instrument does not H ring tho bell of tho receiving tele- B 1 rhone, but Instead causes a screech- B I ing sound from u small megaphone- BBB ' shaped apparatus, descriptively B ' known as a "howler." This Instru- BBS ment Is Installed at tlio Hanger Sta- B. tlon telephone and is said to give BBB cffcctlvo notlco that someone Is on Bft tho wire. If tho field man needs to BBB talk with Homo ono olsowhero on the BY line, tho ranger station instrument BB can bo used to ring up tho person BBI wanted, when tho conversation enn BBH bo carried on. BB, , These portablo phonos aro especial- B ly valuahlo In reporting (Ires nnd oth- B', or emergencies with the least pos- P"1 Bible delay, mid also in Bonding in BB utructlons to Held men and keeping B 4 the district Hangers posted as to tho B i progress of work in the field, thus supplementing tho regular telephone eels Installed at lookout points, ranger rang-er stations, nnd convenient Intervals nlong Forest Service roads nnd trails. |