The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-02
TELEPHONE SYSTEM
TO ALL Of NEVADA
System Planned TO Provide Com
municatiOn Between Both
of States.
SALT LAKE TO BE THE
MAIN POINT OF SYSTEM
Tri-State Company Is Now
Working to Cross the Bar
rier Mountains.

IT is not only possible, but entirely
probable, that Utah and Nevada soon
Will have telephone connection. Within
few months the intervening noun
tains will be crossed by spans of tele
phone wires and it will be possible to
talk from Salt Lake City to almost
any point in Nevada. Not only will
but telephone communication between
almost all points of this State and Ne"
vada will be established.
The movement, which is expected to
result iii the establishing of telephone
communication between the two now
unconnected States. is in the hands of
the Utah. Nevada and Idaho Telephone
company, with Hugh L. Thomas for
merly contract agent of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company,
with headquarters here. one of the
prime movers The field Of activity at
this time is in Nevada, The plan is
to radiate telephone wires from Ely TO
nearly all points of that State. The
Nevada systems then are to tap the
pany wires in three places. the south
ern part of Utah, the western part. and
in southern Idaho.
To Be Subhcensees.
The new Nevada companies, il is
of the Rocky Mountain Bell, thus eu
abllng them to obtain tie Bell equip.
ment. An exchange rental will he os
tablished on each line that the rentals
may be divided between the companies
Mr.. Thomas, who is treasurer and
acting general manager of the Utah,
Idaho and Nevada Telephone company,
has been in Nevada looking the PROPOSE
tion over. Here is what the Ely EX-
nf q Of nf
his visit there:
"a telephone line that Will eventual
" cover the entire State of Nevada,
and have Ely as the central operating
point, is the scheme that has been
planned by n. l.. Thomas of Ogden,
treasurer and acting general man
ager of the Utah, Nevada and Idaho
Telephone company, who came over
land from Eureka yesterday. After
attending 10 company business in Ely,
Mr.. Thomas left for San Francisco
this morning.
First Move Made.
''Thc first move of the company to-
! ward extending its system throughout
the State was consummated a short
time ago, when Mr. Thomas acquired
the Eureka and Ely Telephone line for
his people from the Nevada Consoli-
dated Copper company.
"Tbe line has been out Of commits
sion for the last year. Mr.. Thomas
made thorough inspection of the con
dition of the poles and wires between
the two county seats. He discovered
that the line was down in several
places, and Immediately made arrange
ments to have IL repaired. Mr.. Thomas
Will put in telephone exchange in
Eureka, which Will work in conjunc-
tion with the exchange Of the White
Pine Telephone company
Well Under Way,
'Thc telephone line which this com
pany is building from salt Lake 10
! Ely is well under way, the poles hav-
! ing been placed and the wires stretched
| for distance Of 5S miles from Salt
Lake. The, Western Pacific railroad
! is completed to within 16 miles Of
| able to handle supplies, the work on
the line vii be prosecuted, with greater
energy
termined TO lay its wires from Phoebe
TO Ely as soon as the Salt Lake and
! Ely system is in operation. Touopah
will ultimately be connected with the
system. the proposed line touching
Austin and Eureka.
"The w. r. Smith Telephone com
pany, which controls a line In Elko
county, covering over 800 miles of
territory. has been absorbed by the
! Utah. Nevada and Idaho company, and
later that line will have connections
with the principal office in Nevada.
In Idaho this corporation has pur-
chased a telephone line in Elmore
county 100 miles in length