Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-02
PEOPLE WILL EXTEND
 SERVICE
GENERAL MANAGER IN CITY AND TALKS OF IMPROVEMENT OF
 LOCAL SYSTEM
LOS ANGELES COMMUNICATION
LONG DISTANCE CONNECTIONS PROMISED WITH COAST
 BY END OF YEAR

l Within the next few months before
 the end of the summer, in fact. Globe
 will be equipped with new and up
 to-date telephone system which should
 give the people of this city entire sat isfaction.
 | Such was the announcement made tO
 the Silver Belt yesterday, by C. W. flinchcliffe, manager of the 'Consoli-
 dated Telephone, Telegraph & Electric
 company, who is in this city making
 arrangements for the Improvements
 which are to be made in the local ex-
 change.
 The equipment consists not only of Installing new and improved switch
 board which will do away with the
 necessity of using the anticipated in.
 dividual magneto system, by which it
 is necessary to ring to attract the at
 tention of the central operator, but sev.
 eral miles of new cables will be in stalled, increasing the capacity of the
 exchange from 300 to 600. with pro-
 vision for POO extra subscribers at any time the occasion should demand.
 "When the improvements contcm- plated for Globe are completed, and this work should be finished within the next three months,' y said Mir. Hinch- cliffe to the Silver Belt yesterday, "Globe will have telephone system of about the same size and with the same equipment as Tucson.
 "The present exchange will ba re- placed with new and modern one, op erated by central energy. All that will be necessary to attract the attention of the operator will be to remove the telephone receiver from the hook In few cases, when subscribers request it, the present system will be allowed to remain in use.
 "A shipment of nearly carload of telephone cables is now on the way here and should arrive within two or three weeks
 "The new switchboard. which is be ing manufactured hy the Western Flee. tric company of Chicago, should be ready for shipment at any time. This apparatus was ordered some time ago | and I am expecting notification any day to the effect that it is on the way | here.
 ''To accommodate the new equip | ment, an extra room has been rented in the Globe Office building. This room adioins those now used by the com pany. This gives us ample space for the present and by the time the system has outgrown these quarters, the com pany will be ready to erect its own here.
 "The new toll line, which will con meet Globe with other territorial cities, joining the main line at Florence, is progressing rapidly A part of the construction work on this line is very liflicult, but it should be finished with Il a month.
 "Work on the main line to California will begin within q month. The Pa fife States Telephone & Telegraph company, which operates on the coast, s cooperating with us in this matter, building its line east through lower Cal fornia to connect with our line at the Arizona border.
 'Unless there is some unexpected lelay. Globe will be in direct eommu- lication with Los Angeles, before the nd of the year.
 "A new line down the valley, to eplace the present one, will also be installed during the next few months. 'his will connect with Safford, Solo nonville and Clifton. It will give ilobe subscribers an outlet into the errtory, with good results assured be- ween here and Bisbee and probabil- ty of good communication with Doug as.
 "Some difficulty has been encounter q in securing the necessary equipment or the new improvements in the local ervice of Globe and connections with utside cities, but the factories. are ow getting in shape to handle the -ork and no further delay is expected. When this work is completed, Globe ill have telephone service which will, , my estimation, be entirely satisfac- )ry to everyone concerned
 Regarding telephone rates, MT. Iinchclifie stated that there would robably be no change in the exist. lg schedule of $4 month for business ud $3 month for residence phones, nless there was demand for party pcs in the residence district, which ould naturally bring some reduction l the rental of phones of this class
 Mr. Hinchcliffe will remain in Globe ,r several days.