Show telephone company to spend A total of will be expended during 1930 by the mountain states telephone and telegraph company for the improvement and extension of the telephone service in utah according to information received from pres F H reid because of a rapidly increasing use of the long distance service al a considerable portion ot of this years expenditure will be used to provide additional circuits to accommodate the present and anticipated long distance traffic all new circuits wu will 1 be of copper wire providing clearer voice transmission and existing iron circuits will be replaced with copper in many instances about will be devoted to extending and improving the long distance service in ith utah this year provision is made for a wider and more satisfactory loc local al service tor for the communities served by the company it is expected that 2529 telephones will be added to the system in utah this year the principal projects for increased long distance facilities comprise toll entrance cable at salt lake city additional circuits and pole work between cedar city and st george additional circuit between Co coalville alville and salt lake city additional circuits between salt lake ogden and intermediate points and toll pole replacements throughout the state |