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Show ELECTRSCSAN OF FOREST SERVICE Tho expert telephone man and electrician. elec-trician. C. H Starkweather, of tho national na-tional forest service, Is in the city conferring with the foresters of this section regarding the installation of modorn equipment for the telephone and telegraph lines In tho various forests for-ests of tho western country Ho will remain In the city until about October. Octo-ber. Mr. Starkweather camo from 1 district 3 to Ogdcn. Telephone service in the national forests has become a convenience and quite a necessity in the operation of forest affairs and nearly all the national na-tional forests are being rapidly equipped with tho most modern apparatus. ap-paratus. Without the telephone, the foresters say, the work of the government govern-ment in taking care of the reserves would be greatly lotarded and tho loss of property would he of large proportions.' Mr Starkweather is, experimenting with portable appliances for the telephone tele-phone service, the object being to avoid as nearly as posslblo the erection erec-tion of pole lines and the placing of permanent Instruments in the forests. for-ests. Ho has n portable instrument innt may be attached to trees In the forests and takon away when the rnncvr In thrmtrh talkinn- Tho rnni. er carries the transmlttor with him and uses It when occasion demands. To accommodate this device, wires aro placed under ground and strung attached, without Insulation to trees. It Is Mr. Starkweather's mission to acquaint the forest supervisors and rangers with tho mechanism and operation of the Instruments to such an extent that they may be able to Install and manipulato them In tho field. In other districts tho plan has workod admirably. The foresters say that the telephone installed, in tho far away districts way out in tho woods is not only of great benefit to the forest servlco, but to tho inhabitants of those districts, becauee St brings them In close communication com-munication with metropolitan centers This means of communication, together to-gether with the telegraph and the establishment es-tablishment of good roads and trails by tlie forest department of tho government, gov-ernment, is doing much to develop tho far-away country districts. (Mr, Starkweather says It will not be long 'before tho district forests of the United Statos will be In closo communication with the settled districts. |