Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-03
TEI I.EPHONE SYSTEM FOR
APPLEGATE VALLEY
~.ntr,ls 10 be Establish ed at Pro
volt, Murphy and VIII
derville.

The Applegate Valley Telephone
Company is getting the difficulties
overcome of installing new telephone
system and will soon be able to give
a 6rst.c class service for that entire Val.
lev and connection with Grants Pass
and the other rural lines that are
connected with the city system. The
Applegate Company's lines now ex-
tend from Grants Pass to Murphy,
Provolt, Davidson, Williams and Ap-
plegate and the system is to be ex-
tended at once up the Applegate Val
lev to near Ruch and down the Val
ley to take in New Hope, Chsney
Creek, Slate Creek, Jerome Prairie
and down Rogue river to about Limpy
Creek. Other extensions Of the Com
pany's lines will be made in the near
future which with the ether rural lines
in the county will give Josephine coun-
ty more rural telephones than either
jackson or Douglas county.
There are now more telephones on
the Grants Pass city system than has
either Roseburg, Medford or Ashland
and the increase is so rapid that this
city will continue in the lead. In
recognition of the large business had
from Grants Pass the Pacific States
Telephone g. Telegraph Company.
which operates all the town telephone
systems of the Pacific Coast, will soon
give this city the central energy sys-
tenn. This central energy system is a
big improvement over the old system
now in use, among tn. features will
be no bell ringing to call central and
there will not be to exceed four tele-
phones on line and when call is
made only the bell of the telephone
wanted will ring 1t was through
the active work of A. T. Marshall,
county manager for the Pacific States
Company, that Grants Pass is to be
the first town in Southern Oregon to
get this modern telephone system.
The central Office will be moved from
the present rooms In the First
National Bank block to the brick
building. half block west of the
present location, that was erected
last Fall by Judge Booth for the Com
pany. Part of the equipment has ar
rived and if no more delays are had
in receiving the remainder the new
central will be installed by the mid
die of May and then the work of re.
wiring the city and installing the
new telephones will be hurried along,
1t being the expectation of Manager
Marshall to have the new system in
operation by the first Of June, if pos
sible.
An addition to the telephone system
Of Josephine county that Will be
greatly appreciated by the stockmen
and by the residents of the county and
by tourists will be the Installation OF
telephone system in the Siskiyou
forest reserve to cover the country
about Grayback Mountain and the
Southern Oregon caves. These lines
will be built by the Government for
the use of the forest rangers, but
til ough an agreement between Acting
Supervisor NJ. J. Anderson and the
directors OF the Appleeate Valley
Telephone Conn any the forest reserve
lines will Re connected at the head of
Williams Valley with the lines OF the
latter Company and the Government
employers will be given free service
over the Company entire system AID
with Grants Pass in return f the
uss ot the Government telephones by
tilr patrons of he Apologize Valley
system. This wil he great con