Show work started on new telephone line the new telephone and telegraph line through moffat county la is now virtually a surety according to urination secured 1 by the standard Stan dirl this week A surveying party f flight eight arrived in craig august 7 and started to work immediately locating the I 1 route for the new line which will be about miles in length and will cost in the neighborhood of to construct while no official announcements of the proposed new construction has been made by tho the Aloun mountain tain states telephone company it is trader understood stood that the line will consist of four copper circuits that hat the construction will be rushed immediately and will mill be ini in operation before show flies Is probable as material for construction is already on the way to craig it it Is also understood anat a contract for construction has been let and that a sub contract for hauling the materials has been secured byl by prank estes who a at present has a hauling contract on the federal aid highway project south of craig A carload of wood w with ith which to treat the poles on oil the new line will arrive in craig this week the preservative is in an arsenic compound which la Is tamped camped into the holes as they are filled about the poles A carload of glass insulators has also been shipped to craig tor for the new line contract for the poles has been let to a phippsburg Phipps burg man wad and the poles will be shipped to craig shortly it is understood that 31 car loads of extra large iroles will be needed to complete the line whether or not the mountain states will establish local exchanges along the route of the new line has not yet been determined af A present the maybell territory is served by alomal a local company and tile the uintah basin in utah also has an independent company serving that territory there is a strong possibility lity that the mountain states state may take lake over these companies and maintain local exchanges along the route at the present time there Is no telephone or telegraph service for a dl stance of about a hundred miles between sunbeam and jensen utah officials of the telephone company deny that building of the line at this time la Is the result of inside information in regard to intentions of the moffat railroad to extend its line itne westward from craig cragg as hinted by the empire some few weeks ago iweeta first news of the new line of communication was printed decision to build the new link in its transcontinental system was made by the telephone company however after the railroad had announced that thai it was planning a hone and telegraph circuit to vernal building of the new line will do much to aid closer business relations between craig and the aln tah basin it la Is probable that chez the line is completed that the mot alof tat fat railroad will maintain a freight and passenger agent in vernal tf tc secure additional business for the railroad at the present time craig ans ana vernal are linked by a most efficient truck freight line and it Is probable that a passenger bus service will be established next spring I 1 |