The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-12
CONTINENTAL COMPANY 70 oIvE
BOTH TElEoRAPH AND TILE.
PHONE SERVICE.
CAPITAL FIFTY MILLION
frrl.stats Company to Form Link Ia
New Concern to Compete For
country's Wire
Duslnsss.

nation OF the Continental Telephone
& Telegraph. Company with $50. 000.-
900 capital and headquarters in New
York, competitor has come into the
arena to bid with the existing strong
telegraph companies for q share in
the business. according to an an
nouncement made by Elder H. Moul.
ton. president Of the TriState Tele.
phone and Telegraph Company. Two
trunk lines will be built from coast to
coast, with several cross lines whose
branches will reach to all important
sections Of the United States, and
every Independent telephone in the
United States will BIO in effect q tele.
graph station.
Two years of strenuous work culmi>
mates in the announcement of tire.
mendous service combination Of the
telephone companies of the United
States. which Is to give telephone as
we'll as telegraph service for every
patron Of the contracting companies.
Local Man Interested,
One OF the most energetic promoters
OF the new combination to give univer.
sal Independent telephone service has
been Mr.. Moulton, who returned from
New York with the announcement that
arrangements have been completed,
articles of the new company fled, con.
tracts with independent telephone
companies for through service signed,
and orders given for the construction
OF two great transcontinental trunk
lines to terminate at present at Kan.
sas City and Omaha, and six cross
lines. Some of the work will be done
this fall ard the remainder in the
spring.
Although details are not complete,
the twin cities will probably have each
a central telegraph station connected
with the telegraph and telephone
trunk lines by way Of La Crosse, or
Austin. When the service is com.
pleted a subscriber of the Tri-State
company may telegraph or telephone
from his house to any part Of the
United States.
No Independent Exchanges.
Mr.. Moulton has travelled abroad and
across the country time and time
again, working on the details of the
big plan. He says that the new COM
pany will build no telephone ex-
changes, but that it will make con.
nections with every Independent ex-
change in the country and that al.
ready contracts have been made with
all the big Independent organizations.
In cities where there are no independ.
ent telephone exchanges, like New
York and Washington, telegraph term.
tnals have been obtained already.
The two trunk lines and branches
will be of copper wires which may be
used for either telegraph or telephone
service. One trunk will reach from
Boston and terminate, for the present,
at Omaha. The other will start from
Philadelphia and end at Kansas City.
Branch to Reach Minneapolis.
The first line will run from Boston,
through Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Toledo, Chicago, Davenport to Omaha.
A branch will run from Toledo to De.
troit and from Davenport to Mime.
apolfs and St.. Paul.
The second line will lead from Phil.
adelphia through Harrisburg, Pitts
burg, Columbus, Indianapolis, st. Louis
to Kansas City.
Branch trunks are to be as follows:
Boston to Philadelphia through New
York and Washington; Buffalo to
Pittsburg; Detroit to Columbus; Chi.
cago to Indianapolis; Omaha to Kan.
sas City,; Indianapolis through Louis
willie to New Orleans and Mobile.