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Show To Cost 5175,000 .... Mountain States Telephone Will Extend Dial Service Telephone service in the Roosevelt Roos-evelt exchange will be expanded with the installation of new automatic dial systems at Fort Duchesne and Myton, according to Axel A. Birch, manager for the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. The dial equipment at Fo.t Duchesne will be housed in a fireproof brick building located within the Campus Area and will provide one-and f our-partv type telephone service to thoss customers. Customers living at Gusher ajd Alterra will also be served by the Fort Duchesne system. It is estimated that over 100 customers will be connected when the new system is put into service, Birch said. The other dial unit to be Installed In-stalled at Myton will make it possible to furnish one- md four-party service to customers living within the city limits, thd manager s ated. In addition, wc are providing facilities to permit about 50 customers of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin Telephone Association living in the area south of Myton My-ton to be connected into the; Mountain States system, he said. Both dial offices will be connected con-nected with the Roosevelt office of-fice by means of trunk lines. After the units are in operation, op-eration, customers in either community com-munity may inter-communicate within their own communitv simply by dialing the desired number. They may also contact almost 900 subscribers in the Roosevelt area without additional addition-al charge. Operators in the Roosevelt Roos-evelt office will furnish long distance service and information informa-tion assistance to subscribers connected to both new system?. In addition, the operators at Roosevelt will furnish long distance dis-tance service and information assistance to all customers of the Uintah Basin Telephone Association As-sociation when those exchangeT are placed in operation To' make this possible, the Mountain Moun-tain States Company will build long distance lines and insta'l associated central office equipment equip-ment into those exchanges. Five new operator switchboards switch-boards will be installed in the Roosevelt office to permit the , Company to provide this ser-vice, ser-vice, Birch stated. It will be necessary to move the business h office to new quarters next door north and remodel the" present building to make room for these new switchboards, he said. The manager also stated that new lines will be constructed in the Ioka area. These will provide pro-vide telephone service to those families who have made application applica-tion and will permit a reduction in the number of parties per line for existing subscribers in this area, he said. Installation of equipment will begin in the near future, with the entire project scheduled for completion early in 1953. It is estimated that this work will cost $175,000. A representative of the Ogden district office has been contacting contact-ing prospective customers in the area for the past few weeks: however, Birch stated any person per-son who was not contacted can still arrange for service through the business office in Roosevelt. |