Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-09-29 | Page 16 | New Telephone Service Begun

NEW TELEPHONE SERVICE ONCE BEGUN Talks Between Ogden and aud Cities in Mexico j Possible Should any desire to talk by telephone from Ogden to a friend In Mexico City he can do so zo today and nd hereafter at the rate of 1140 for three minutes This was the announcement today of Dan R R. Smith Ogden manager of or orthe the Mountain States Telephone Telegraph company Inauguration of Mexican American telephone communication was signal signal- signalized signalized this afternoon when President Coolidge and President Calles passed pleasantries with one another over overlong overlong long Iong distance Mr Smith said This new service will bring Mex Mex- Mexico's Mexico's ico's capitol city her principal sea sea- seaport sea sea- seaport port Tampico and the thc capitols capitals of some of tier her er richest and most pro pro- progressive progressive states within the range of or American telephone communication The charge for a three-minute three sta- sta to Uon call caU from Ogden to I Mexico City will be 1140 The Bell system has made m de arrangements to connect at Laredo Texas with the newly completed lines of or the Mexican Me Telephone Telegraph company a n subsidiary of or the International Tele Tele- Telephone Telephone Telephone phone Telegraph corporation At this point the line will cross the Rio Grande which there forms the inter inter- international international International national boundary From o Nue Laredo on the Mexican side of the Rio nio Grande the long distance line I runs through some arid regions and I farming country southward to Mexico City and Puebla It passes through Monterey Saltillo San Luis Potosi and affording telephone communication to these points A branch line extends from San Luis Potosi to Tampico the important oil port on the tropical semi-tropical east coast of Mexico Another line runs up from Tampico to Victoria The Bell system already connects with the telephone systems of Canada Cuba and by Radio Telephone to Great Britain The new service adds Mexico to the list of countries which are lire within speaking distance of or Amer Amer- American American Amerlean ican lean telephone users ers