Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-05-14
THE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
The Latter to be In to HALEY this
Week, aud the Former by July l.
Wood River to Have Direct Communi.
cation to All Parts Of the World.

week. anu tue rOrmer Dy July l.
Wood River to Have Direct Communi.
cation to All Parts Of the World.
j. Dickey, Superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
with headquarters at Omaha, and A.
j. Pattison, corresponding and Fiscal
Agent of the Western Associated
Press for Utah, Idaho and Montana,
came up to HALEY yesterday, in a
special train consisting of locomo-
tive and one box.car, arriving here
about 7 o'clock, and remaining only
one hour.
Mr.. Pattison, besides his connec-
ton with the Associated Press, is also
Circuit Superintendent of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company for
Utah, Idaho and Montana, and owner
of one-third of the stock of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone Company,
and he came up here to look after the
construction of the telegraph line to
HALEY, to decide upon the establish
ment of a telephone exchange on
Wood River, and to confer with the
editor of the TIMES about various
matters affecting the interests of the
Associated Press. Mr.. Dickey just
came on a tour of inspection, and
called at the TINES Office s'to get &C.
quainted with the men who had the
enterprise to have Associated Press
dispatches brought in, last year, from
station $50 miles away" While here
Mr.. Dickey met County Commissioner
Jas. K. Morrill,, who is an old friend
Of his, and thus spent pleasant half
hour.
The Western Union Company, Mr..
Dickcy said, recently decided to put
on second wire to Shoshone, and
had already taken steps to do so. 1t
would take GO or 80 days to get it
ready for use. In the meantime no
press dispatches could be transmitted
over the single wire, as it was monopo-
lized, almost all the time, by the rail-
way company. AS soon as second
wire should be stretched, however,
press dispatches would be transmitted.
Some time this fall a through wire
from Portland, Oregon, will connect
with the Shoshone and Wood River
wires, and Wood River will thereafte.
have direct connection, east and west,
with all parts of all world.
After consulting with Mr.. Rood
Mr.. Bews, and the editor of the
TINES, Mr.. Pa,tison concluded to es-
tablish telephone exchange on Wood
River, to have it in working order by
July l, with headquarters at HALEY
and the central Office in the TINES
office. Only Haley and Bullion will
be connected this year, as the other
towns have failed to give the proposal
of the company sufficient encourage
ment to warrant the establishment oil
exchanges and the construction Of
lines.
The telegraph, Mr.. Pattison said
would doubtless be completed to Hal.
ley in a day or two; but it would
probably be week before the wire
could be got ready for use. Even
then, all mercantile business shall
have to be subordinate to the require
ments of the railway company and nc
press dispatches can come over the
wire, As soon as the second wire wa.
in operation to Shoshone, Mr.. Patti
son said, the Associated Press would
be prepared to treat for and supply .
press report, but not till then.
Messrs. Dickey and Pattison re-
turned to Shoshone last night, on thu
train which brought them here, ane
which had been made up especial.
for them.
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