Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-15
HELLO DENVER.
santa Fe is Connected With Outside
World BY Long Distance Tele-
... phone Today.
Hello, Denver"

| memo, DGnNGr.
lhese were the words of Manager |
sparks, OF the Santa Fe Electric Te]e
phone Company late this afternoon
Wnen ne took down his telephone re
celVer for the first talk over the Ions
distance line. Santa Fe is now CON
hected up with the large telephone
system OF the Colorado Co,nnan,
"hlch IS part OF the still larger svs
TEN OF the Bell Telephone Companv
llnemen are rapidly pushing forward
toward Albuquerque and within twen
ty days, Manager Sparks expects t,
send a similar message to that CITY
| Before forty days have passed, con
hccllons Will be made as far as So
zorro. Common as the telephone has
become, the connecting of the little
cable today, which gives communica.
ZION with the outside world, marks an
epoch in the citys growth and pro.
sress which can best be realized by
her older citizens.
The Long Ago.
There are men in Santa Fe todav
VINO not so very long ago, as time is
computed, crossed the then desert
lands lying between Old WestDort
Landing, now Kansas City, and Santa
Fe. The trip was made in the slow
moving prairie schooner with oxen
ana was accomplished only after the
greatest hardships, dangers and ex.
penses. Had one of these men been
told at that time, that before his al.
loted span on earth had elapsed, he
would be able to sit at his desk in a
comfortable Office in Santa Fe and
talk through little nickle plated in
strument to friends back in Westport
Landing, he would not have believed
it. Today it is an accomplished fact.
The line is not yet in perfect working
order but the first messages were
heard distinctly at both ends of the
cable. Indeed, as in most things, San
Ia Ee has telephone system which
would be credit to much larger
place The building in which the CEN
tral exchange is located, is one of the
best constructed and most comfortable
in the city. The new switch board
which has recently been installed was
built to order by the Western Electric
Company OF Chicago and is the most
modern pattern now constructed. The
telephone instruments were made by
the same company but the Bell Com
pany's receiver and transmitter are
being used. The telephone instru-
ments are equipped with automatic
signals, so that by simply taking down
the receiver, central is notified that
a number is desired. When the re-.
ceiver is placed upon the hook, central
is informed that the conversation is
at an end. This equipment is the
one now in use in all of the large
cities. 1t will soon be installed in AL
buquerque and Las Vegas.
A night service is also main
tanned which cannot always be had in
cities even larger than Santa Fe.
Mr.. Sparks, has moved his Office to
the telephone company's building and
is dcvoting his entire time to the i'm
Drovement of the service.
Future improvements.
There are a large number of tele-
phones already installed and as soon
as work is finished on the toll lines,
a number of other instruments which
have been already ordered will be
placed in the business houses and resi-
dences of the city. A new telephone
directory is being prepared which Will
be issued shortly after New Years.
4 am proud of this system" said
Mr.. Sparks today, "and my one desire
is to give more than value received IN
the way of telephone service. The long
distance connection has reached San
ia Fe at last, and no one is happier
to see it here than the business men
with whom | have talked. 1t is long
felt want. An aged man who has lived
in Santa Fe number of years and
who made the trip here in a prairie
schooner, said that he had never eX-
pected to see the long distance tele-
phone reach here during his life time.
| don't think l was dreaming when |
told him that / actually expected to
see air ships in common use before
my allotted span had reached it's end.
think the air ship like the telephone
and automobile will come just as sure
as death will one day come to me. be
that as it may, however, you can no"
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