The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-06
A RURAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM

[ 30 12-inch painted oak brackets. 30 40-penny and 30 60-penny wire nails.
 30 22- or 25-foot poles.
 The total cost per mile of this ma terial, less poles. is about $5. | Case II. When a metallic two wire line not more than twelve miles long Is to be built there will be re- quired per mile:
 1s2 pounds No. 14 B. B. galvanized telephone wire.
 SO No. pony glass insulators. l 60 12-inch painted oak brackets. 60 40-penny and 50 60-penny wire nails.
 30 22- or 25-foot poles. The total cost per mile of this ma terial, except poles, Is about $1o. Case III. When the line Is to be more than twelve miles long. If a grounded" one-wire line is to be put up there will be required for each mile:
 165 pounds of No. 12 B. B. galvan- ized iron telephone wire.
 30 No. 9 pony glass insulators
 30 12-inch painted oak brackets. | 80 40-penny and 30 60-penny wire nails.
 ] 30 22- or 25-foot poles. | The total cost per mile of this ma terial, less poles is about $7. Case ". When a metallic two wire line more than twelve miles long is to be built there will be re- quired for each mile:
 330 pounds of No. 12 B. B. galvan- izedAron telephone wire. 66sNo. pony glass insulators. 60 12-inch painted oak brackets.
 so 4O-penny and 50 60-penny wire nails.
 30 22- or 25-foot poles.
 The total cost per mile of thisma- -eW sIql Jo eUtu Isd 1900 Telol sqL
 Material Required For Each Tele-
 phone.
 At each telephone station on either kind of line, there will be required:
 l No. 1917 type polished oak tele- phone set with
 1 No. 143W Bell grade receiver
 1 No. 250-W Bell grade transmit ter.
 No. s2 ? 1-2-ft. receiver cord.
 l No. 13-W induction coil
 1 1-4-inch No screws (to fas- ten transmitter to telephone.) 3 Improved Blue Bell batteries.
 l No. 50 lightning arrester.
 5 feet No. 19 single wire (to run from arrester to ground.)
 20 feet No. 19 paired wire (to run from arrester to telephone.)
 6 Finch No. screws (to fasten set and arrester to wall.)
 No. porcelain knobs.
 3-inch No. Is F. H. iron screws (to fasten knobs to house.)
 ? S-inch porcelain tubes (to carry wire into house)
 12 3-4-inch Blake insulated staples.
 l 6-foot ground rod.
 The above telephone station mate rial will cost from $1350 to $1E, de- pending upon the location ne the line It will be seen from the figures al- re@dy given that the main line ma terial. except poles, costs from S5 to S14 per mile: the No. IA on-wire sys- tenn S5 per mile; the No. 12 one- wire system $7, the No. 14 two-vire system s10 and the No. 12 tsso-wire system s14.
 complete standard telephone sta. ton outst for any kind of a raral system costs from s13.50 to s15 each.
 In order, therefore, to estimate the total cost of building B complete rural telephone system you should first null tiply the number of stations by tho cost of each ($13.50 to s15).f then multiply the number of miles of pole line by the cost per mile of the main line material you wish to use (s5, $7, $10 or $1D, and then add the tive results together. | s.sss.s................... ..........ss..s..ssss.ss | thc iiic-5isSi never noAiCeu plcuicd
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