Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-04 | Page 8 | Put Phones in Idaho Forests

PUT PHOHES IN iBjOiiEuTS District Engineer Leaves Tomorrow To-morrow to Install Wireless Equipment R. L. Adams, telephone crplneer for district 4 and district 1 of tho Cnlted States forest service, departs tomorrow tomor-row for the Thunder Mountain area In central Idaho, the primary object of his trip being the Installation of two Wireless telephones The Installation of the high powered wireless telephone sets, will marl; the initial development of any lines of communication in this sbctton of the west. The wireless sets, which Mr. Adams has been waiting for fofr weeks, was shipped from Schenectady, New York, to McCall, Idaho, on July 2. The eculpmcnt will arrive by express ex-press In nmplo time for Installation before ihe fire hazard In file Thunder Thun-der Mountain country becomes serious, it is said. The Thunder '.Mountain COuntrj marks one of the greatest wild areas of the United States. At one time thickly populated with mlncis and mining camps, the country ih now deserted, abandoned diggings. old Shafts and rusting machinery bearing mute evidence that the wheels of industry in-dustry at one time turned diligently in this section. Last season the Thunder Mountain area, prior to being taken over a.s a poilion of country under control of the fotest service, was the sceiio of the most terrific forest fires In the Fourth district. Mr Adams stated that I ho developments devel-opments of the wireless telephone are wonderfully adapted for the need of the coutitrj. The two high lowered sets will be Installed Immediately upon their arrival and will be located about tO I', lies distance from one another. 00