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Show IMPORTANT TELEGRAPHIC CENTER. Ogden has become a point of supreme importance in the telegraphic tele-graphic service of the Western Union company. Beginning Saturday, Satur-day, all wires from the Pacific coast, which at present have connection connec-tion east with the trunk lines crossing the state of Nevada, will be switched to the north and south of San Francisco and brought in to Ogden, on the north over the Oregon Short Line, and on the south over the San Pedro wires. ! : i This will leave the wires leading from Ogden to Reno unencumbered unencum-bered and at the disposal of the army of newspaper correspondents and others who are to report the big fight. Yesterday two Western Pacific wires were cut in at Elko and brought in to Ogden from the east end over the lines from .Salt Lake here. Four wires from Salt Lake to Ogden will be rushed to completion com-pletion today in order to be serviceable immediately in handling the , overflow which will be routed from Reno south to Los Vegas on the Clark road and north to Ogden. By Saturday the local Western Union office, under W. J. Der-mody, Der-mody, will be operating two wheatstone, threo quadruplex and five duplex instruments, in addition to the heavy equipment always avail-1 avail-1 able, and it is estimated that the Ogden office will be capable of transmitting 50,000 to 60,000 words an hour. Superintendent S. E. Leonard of Denver and General Electrician McKisick of Chicago, have been here arranging the new circuits which give to Ogden an unequalcd ganglia of wires. No telegraphic event in the history of the United States will approach ap-proach this undertaking in volume, not even the great flood of words during past national elections equaling this in magnitude. |