The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-11
LINE ALMOST FINISHED
A Telephone From Butte to Salt
Lake.
IT'S A METALLIC CIRCUIT
Gives Two Outlets to the Coast-The
Only Gap Between Ocean and
Ocean Will Be From Dem
yer to Omaha.

Butte and Salt Lake will be in a po-
| to one another.
1t is expected that connection by
| telephone wire will be made at Spen-
Ger, Idaho, on the 18th or 10th of this
| month. Wire is being strung north
from Salt Lake and south from Butte.
In April Manager Miller of this juris-
| diction of the Bell company began
stringing wire from Dillon, and the
Utah district north from Idaho Falls.
No. copper wire is being used and
it will be a metallic circuit, it being
the intention to do away with ground
circuits altogether in course of time.
1t Is the intention of the company to
string No. 6 to Dillon and thus con-
meet Salt Lake with the metallic cir
cult After this is done there will &c
but few stations on the main overland
line to Salt Lake, those in this dis
trict being Dillon, Red Rock Lima,
Monida and Spencer.
A G. Miller. manager of the Butte
exchange, said yesterday to Stand
ard reporter:
THE completion of the line to Salt
Lake will give us two outlets to
coast cities-via Spokane and Port
land and via Pocatelo and Hunting
ton, Ore. There Is talk of connecting
Salt Lake and Denver and then the
only gap left open between ocean and
ocean will be from Denver to Omaha.
and this will surely be closed, thus
making connection between New York
and San Francisco.
I'VE are going to extend to Pipe
stone and Whitehall We will build
leg from some nearby station to
take in these points, and this can be
done with about Is miles of wire. Be-
sides, we are going to greatly improve
the local exchange We are now ar
ranging to contract for the building
of another story on our office in this
city, to be constructed of stone brick
and steel. Work upon this will begin
in a few days. The entire system is
to be changed here by the introduce
ton of the common battery or ex-
press, system-that is, the battery to
be disassociated with the individual
instrument. There are only two or
three of these systems in use in the
United States, and they have proved to
be most successful. The central office
will occupy the upper floor. A new
switch board, to cost $4,000, is being
made to order for the central office
1t will require many months to COM
probably be a year before the new
system in it's entirety will be in use
in Butte.
Il have just received notice of the
shipment of 40 miles of No. 10 hard
drawn copper wire, which will be used
in the replacement of the iron wire
now in use here. The telephone bust
ness has grown to such enormous pro-
portions here that it has become nee
essary to make these big improve
ments. We are expanding more money
on expansion of lines and service in
this immediate circuit than in any
other part of Montana"
Mr.. Miller said that it was the in
tention of the company to replace the
iron wire from here to Missoula with
the No metallic circuit thus link
ing Spokane and Salt Lake on the main
overland metallic.
President George Y. Wallace of the
company at Salt Lake has given it
out that they intend to make the &C.
casion of the linking of Butte and Salt
Lake notable event down there, to
be attended with appropriate cere-
monies.