Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 13 | Copper Wires to Link Coast to Coast Are to Go through Salt Lake

I COPPER WIRES VIRES TO 10 LINK COAST TO ra COAST COOT ARE ME TO ID TOGO TOGO GO THROUGH SAlT LAKE Direct Telephone Connections Between San Francisco and New York Are Planned LAKE will have havo direct telephone telephone tele- tele SALT phone with San and with Now ow York City Cily within the next two years cars The message from front the go governor govenor nor of ot California informing the tho governor of ot New York that tho the Panama-Pacific Panama International exposition exposition exposi exposi- tl tion n la is open will pass directly over these wires through Salt Lake This Is the aim of ot tho the affiliated Bell telephone companies and the first actual actual ac nc- work will be started within tho tiro next few months in tho the stringing of oC four tour copper wires straight through from New cw York to San Francisco Routes for tor this great trunk lino line of oC copper wires havo have already alread been designated designated over a n gr great at portion of ot the thea a way across tho the continent but those there are areen e en engineering features In connection With ith t the tho construction of ot tho the lines through the region that aro are yet yetto yetto et to be solved One of at these problems I will be bo the tho lino between Salt Lake and Nevada and although definite decision has been reached that the lino will pass through Salt Lake there thero are aro other features features fea fea- tures yet to bo be decided So o far Car telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone messages without repeating have ha been limited to about the tho distance be- be I Indianapolis and Denver Den a a. few successful successful suc suc- l messages having been sent that tar rare For Far greater distances however the present da day instruments have havo I failed because of or ho Inability of or science so far tar to maintain an even current current cur cur- I rent for such great grent distances In connection with Hh tho aim of ot tho the telephone company compan to bo ho able ablo to talk direct across the continent tho life Bell Ben In Interests In- In t are aro maintaining labor laboratories for research work in which it is said that a year car is being expended in experimental ex experimental experimental ex- ex work to produce telephone i Instruments that will overcome the dif dlf- dif dif- f of oC tho loss of or electrical current cur cur- r rent ent and its Instability over oYer great distances distances distances dis dis- and through varying climatic and tt weather conditions rho Tho four copper wires which will soon span the tho continent passing through Salt Lake can also bo be used for tor a series series' of oC telegraph wires so that the tho sending of numerous telegraph messages In either cither direction at tho rite same time will not interfere with their simultaneous uso use as telephone wires