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Show POLES ARE COMING' DOIN Judging from the present 'operations 'opera-tions or' the Hell Telephone company and the Utah Light & Railway companies com-panies of this city, within J"0 days Ogden will be freed from poles in the center of the streets In th? paved districts, dis-tricts, and en some of the Hide streets and avenues The Cell people have a force of S3 men at work taking down wires an 1 placing a conduit on Twenty fourth street between Washington and Adams Ad-ams avenues, In which will be placed plac-ed the main wires of the telephone system of that company in the city. The wires along Washington avenue, and Twenty-fourth street are already under ground. That Is, the wires are underground on Washington avenue, between Twenty-second and Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth streets, and on Twent-fourth streets, when the present conduit Is completed, the wires will be under ground from a point half way between Jefferson and Adams avenues, to Wail avenue. Plant Chief H. B. Hill states that Twenty-fourth street Is being made a "boulevard" for the company's wiring wir-ing nnd that from the conduit laterals lat-erals will lead too sections of the paved district. When tho present conduit shall have been finished and the wires placed in It, Mr. Hill says the com- pany will have expended the sum of JGn.CiOO. It cannot be stated definitely when the work will he finished, owing to the uncertainty of receiving wire and other material, but it Is certain, be says, that everything will be completed com-pleted In 90 days. Manager Decker of the Utah Light & Railway company says the company com-pany has on hand seven tons of wli that is being placed ou new poles in the paved district. , I He says he thinks that nt the expiration ex-piration of 90 days, all the poles of the company, In the paved district, will bo found on the side of Lho streets, rather than in the center In the removal of tho electric light poles from the center lo the side of i the streets, It means the erection ef au entirely new line of poles, and tho rewiring of the same, for It would be a physical Impossibility, rajs Mr Decker, to remove the present poles, strung with wires carrying electricity, electri-city, and at the wime time give the lighting service that tho people of the city must have. The expenditure j of money In this matter amounts to I oer $14,000. Tho electric light redes will be ' moved freun the ceiiter to the side of Washington avenue from Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth street to the Ogden river bridge; on. Adams from Twentieth to Twenty-eighth streets; on IJncoln from Twenty-third to Twenty-ixth and on Twenty-third from Wall to Adams. The work Js being prosecut- I cd with all possible haste, I |