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Show ifited by the improved service brought about by this $37,000,000 project being undertaken by the Bell Telephone System and the tflawajlan Telephone Company, as several calls a day are placed to the Islands from this area. New Gable To . Hawaii Hawaii and the mainland of the United States are scon to be linked by a 2.400 mile underwater under-water able according to H. K. Richmond district manager of the Mountain States Telephone Company. The cable will be laid this summer from Point Arena, California to the island of Oahu. Twin submarine cables, capable cap-able of carrying 36 simultaneous conversations, will be laid by the cable ships Monarch and Ocean Layer. The off shore shallow portion of the cable was laid xast April. The deep-sea phase of the project is scheduled to begin July 17, with the arrival of the Monarch 10 miles off Point Arena. The Monarch will lay 1,900 miles of cable and rendezvous with Ocean Layer near Hawaii. The Monarch will buoy the cable and sail for Honolulu. The Ocean Layer will pick up the buoyed cable and continue laying to Oahu. This procedure will be reversed re-versed for laying of the second cable. Many Utah people will be ben- |
