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Show oo RUNNING TRAINS BY TELEPHONE Salt Lake. Nor. 25 Telephones have supplanted the clicking telegraph Instruments In all of the telegraph ot fices of the Denver A Rio Grande, between Salt Lako and Grand June tlon. a distance of 261 miles. Vester day morning the movement or trains was controlled from the division dis patchera' offices by the telephone, and J M. Walker, superintendent m telegraph, who was here from Denver Den-ver to watch the iryout, said the telephone tele-phone vu more satisfactory than tho telegraph and that it would only be a short time until all of the rail roads in the United States are usin the telephone for dispatching trains It Is said b the railroad CORipan) that the movement of trains can be expedited by Die telephone and that mistakes are not so liable to ocmr It Is pointed out by the officials of the road that telegraph operators come mechanical In their work and that often they misread what is sent oer the wires. In the use ii the telephone rhe operator talks di rectly with the dispatcher and then repeats the message so that the mis takes winch have heretofore occurred are reduced to a minimum The telegraph lines and the instruments will be maintained in the offices In l ;:se the telephone lines should be out of commission The storms and weather conditions !n general are not so liable to affet the tolephone lines as the telegraph lines, they say. The telephone line from Salt Lake to Grand Junction has been under Construction for almost seven months A tost was made on the Bingham branch of the Denver & Rio Grande for the last seven years as to the re-1 liability of the telephone In train dis patching over the use of the telegraph tele-graph and It wae found to be more satisfactory as the train dispatcher could talk directly with the engineer and conductor of trains when there was some question between the operator op-erator and the trainmen as to running urders. It as found yesterday that mes sages could be sent and received more quickly and with greater satis faction than by the use of the tele graph. Mr Walker would not state when he expected the entire Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande system to be equip ped with the telephones, as nothing has been said yet in regard to extend lng the telephone |