The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-29
WESTERN UNION
INSTALLS DYNAN0S
improvements in Local Office
That Will Cost Above
$4,000.
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF
COMPANY OCCURS APRIL 1
Salt Lake Office Now Has Ninety
Eight Wires Running
Into 1t.


undergoing the process OF a complete
change from the use OF equipment that
has been employed several years to
complete and modern equipment equal to
that of any other Office in the country.
These improvements, which are nearly
completed VIII cost approximately $4,000.
This Ia the jubilee year Of that company,
which was organized nifty years ago. or
on April 4, 1866. and by a happy coinct
dencc the last finishing touches to these
improvements are expected 10 be made
by April 4, 1906.
Salt Lake Was Isolated.
I IL is probably unnecessary to state that
Salt Lake was not sending or receiving
b kilograms at the former date. There
were very few cities in the world Mt that
time that were Telegraph companies
were not decided success at that time.
Az an evidence % this, a II. May, the
local manager. tells that in the head Of
fees OF the company letter from busi-
ness house has been preserved where
credit was refused to the Western Union
asked. There wore many attempts made
and several years were required before
the business of sending kilograms was
considered paving business.
Marked Improvements Made.
Mr. May has been with the company
has served II the equipment used has
undergone many changes and marked Inn
provements have been made The pres
cnt state OF efficiency he says. has been
a gradual evolution of methods and me-
chanical devices from crude affairs and
primitive systems
Dynamos Instead of Batteries.
The greatest change being made in Salt
Lake is the substitution OF n series OF
light electric dynamos aggregatinE in
efficiency n lDTap-DOweT
for 5000 cells of batteries, which gives
better service, gives more room and re-
duces the operating expense.
Reduces the Expense.
To keep the cells charged with chcmi-
cally manufactured electricity under the
system that has just been discarded cost
the company about 81 cell per annum,
or a total of 5000 year. Under the new
order of things the electricity Will be
purchased from the Utah Light and Rail-
way company, and Will cost only from
$3.50 TO 5000 year.
Gas Engine for Emergency.
For emergency purposes ten horse
power gas engine has been Installed In
the basement and this can be pressed into
service in n very few minutes should the
power that propels the dynamos be shut
on The same power supplies the power
for the messenger and clock services.
Has a Big Force.
The company employs In Salt Lake. un-
der the management OF Mr. May. thirty
f1ve telegraph operators fifteen clerks,
and from fifteen to twenty messengers,
The chief operators are also electrical en-
gineers.
Sixty Distri buting Wires.
Coming into the Salt Lake office which
is an important central and distributing
point, are sixty wires and another wire
ia now being strung between Denver and
Salt Lake along the lines of the Colorado
Midland and the Rio Grande Western
roads
Quadruplex and Duplex.
By an arrangement of batteries and in
Btruments ten OF the lines arc quadru-
picked and seven of them are dupleXed.
quadruplexed line Will convey two mos
Bages in opposite directions at the same
time. dupleXed wire will transmit SIN
gle messages In opposite directions stimuli
taneousy.
Office Has Ninety-Eight Wires.
When the new wire is completed the
capacity OF the office will be ninety-eight
wires as now arranged All new wires
now Installed are copper OF which 2l0
pounds are required to reach mile.
This wire costs about 20 cents pound.
OF better than $40 mile.
Many Direct Wires.
There arc direct wires from Salt Lake
TO Chicago, Denver. Los Angeles and San
Francisco, and most Of the important
points In the Northwest Connections
can be made 80 that Salt Lake operators
can communicate direct with New York
Philadelphia, Boston and most OF the
important cities OF the continent
The switchboard and the Instruments
are all new The switchboard Is a com
pnceted and finely constructed piece or
mechanism. and by IL any desired con-
Dection can be quickly made.