The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-06
TELEPHONE TO PRICE.
Rocky Mountain Company to Connect
With Eastern Company.

Price. Oct 3.--Reuben c Miller. pres
ident and general manager Of the Eastern
Utah Telephone company. has completed
arrangements with President George 4.
Wallace OF the Rocky Mountain Bell
company, whereby this section is to have
communication with other portions of this
state and adjoining states through the
Bell people extending its limo from Provo
10 Price, a first class copper wire service
TO be installed. The Eastern Utah Tele-
phone company - To erect poles from
Price to Cotton, and these are to be leased
to the Bell people for the stringing of its
wires. From Price to Cotton there will be
local line maintained by the Eastern
l tab company, but this place is to be
the central exchange. The Rocky Noun
struction as soon as material can be got
ten on the ground and ought to have the
line from Provo TO Price In operation by
the first of the year.
Work is To start soon on the setting of
poles OF the Eastern Utah lines whereby
the towns of the county, including Clear
Creek, Winter Quarters. ScOtield. Helper
Castle Gate and Sunnyside viii be con-
nected with Price, and the Rocky Noun
tain Bell system. A fifty-drop switch
board and a number of the best instrn-
ments made have been ordered by PrCai-
dent Miller for the Price exchange. and
the instruments now in use at the sew
eral towns reached are 10 be replaced
with these new ones. The present switch
board in use AZ Price is too small for
the service and will be placed at some
other point. Tight booths have also been
ordered and are to be put in at public
stations. insuring privacy for patrons OF
the system,
The stock allotted for the building Of
the Carbon county system and Tor con
nectiOn with the Rocky Mountain Bell
company has been over subscribed, and II
may be that the subscriptions or some
will have to be cut down. The capital
l. 50 H. faf d q
of $40 An electrician is soon TO come out
from Salt Lake City TO go over the eN-
listing system south and ne VIII place the
line in first class shape throughout, as
well as making some needed improvements
in the local exchange. ~,
The Eastern Utah company recenus
acquired by purchase fifty-tWo miles o.
telephone line from Price TO Ferron lii
Emery county. Later the llne or seven
miles from Price TO Wellington was al
sorbed making practically Sixty miles
now in operation, not including the locai
system at Price. The kellingloh me VIII
be extended on to sunnyside. 10 pr!he
the other towns and coal camps OF inc
county into the system VIII necessltate
the construction of about elghty-ilNe
miles of new line, which Is 10 De equlpPSp
throughout with copper wire ana me
Bell instruments, making lhe sSAN4OS a.
good as the best. ,,
The Eastern Utah Telephone company
was recently organized among the ousi-
ness people of Price, VINO reailed INC
convenience of communication with the
outside world. and saw in the investment
of their money a reasonable interest IN
years to come on the same. ReuDen "
Miller is the president Of the company
A. McGoYney, cashier or the flfst I'd,
tionaI hank 0f Price. vice president, and
A. w. Horsley, secretary and treasurer
These with Albert Bryner, J. W NiXoh-
L. p. diversion. +. +. Fisk. r. W. Crock
cit and George Y Wallace OF SAT- Lax
o. for,o ,bc directorate The govern
ment telegraph and telephone line from
Price TO Fort Duchesne is soon TO pc
abandoned. and il is the intention OF inc
company TO absorb this system dhd Coh-
soiidate il with the local company Wheh
tbe time comes. This would give connec-
ton with Vernal and all the reservation
country and of which Price must always
be the commercial and financial center