The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-22
TELEGRAPH WIRES
TO Be USED FOR
! TELEEPF HH00NNE ALSO
Surprising Experiments
Show This to be
Possible
OF TRUST
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New Venture of the PostaI
Company is aimed at
Western Union ..
New York City.-Announcement

New YORK OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
was made today at the executive Of
fees of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, No. 253 Broadway. that it is
to enter the telephone field. AS a
result of experiments that have just
been completed between Salt Lake
City, Utah, and Reuno New, and be-
tween Reno and San Francisco, it's
trunk telegraph lines are to be used
for. telephone messages between those
cities.
The Postal has put into operation
between Salt Lake City and San
Francisco two new lines which cost
$4,000, 900. The wires are thicker
than a lead pencil and, weight 435
pounds to the mile, instead of 21O
and 800 pounds, the standard
weights heretofore. This new wire
is eventually to %supplant the lighter
size on all trunk lines of the Postal
system, and as its mileage is increas-
ed the Postal's operation in the tele-
phone field is to extend in pace.
When the telephone experiments
were made the wires were being used
for the transmission of Geographic
messages between Chicago and San
francisco. Four operators were at
work, furthermore, two in each direc-
ton, but at the same time men in
Salt Lake City and in San Francisco
were in conversation with Reno,
talking through the Geographic
messages."f Is
Experiments Ast6nish officials
The first success of the experiment
was sgoecomplete that officials of the
company couldn't help being sus.
.picious in spite of. themselves. They
tried again when the wires we're fair
" singing under a torrent of Morse,
Voices were carried four hundred
miles over the wires SO clearly that
remained no longer. The per
fecting of plans for installing tele.
phone service vas Immediately be
gun.
"a new power plant is being com.
rpleted at Reno. When it comes into
use through telephone service owe
the eight hundred miles of wire be.
tween Salt Lake and San francisco
will be established. In the forme,
city local service will be. offered ever
before that time with automatic in.
struments. This service will be pu,
in along the line to the West ant
Month to Billings and Great Falls
Mont.
From these Montana points tho
plan is to extend 1t westward to Spo.
kane. AS soon as possible Spokane
and San Francisco will be connected
In the same way, giving a belt line
around the Northwest.
No statement was made concern.
Ing the .company's purpose of extend.
Eing Its telephone service through the
Middle West and the East. 1t was
not denied, however, that this extern.
sion was in contemplation as soor
and assrapidlyaas proved practicable
Fight Is Frankly Admitted.
This venture of the Postal interests
lis frankly directed against the West.
ern Union. The Western Union Is
now owned by the American Tele.
graph and Telephone Company (the
Bell system) and in the last year the
service Of, the two companies has
been made as nearly one as possible
Within a fortnight the Bell system
has acquired the last Independent
telephone concern in the intermoun.
tain West, the Independent Tele.
phone Company Of Utah. This. went
into bankruptcy in, May, and at the
sale of its establishment was bought
by the Bell Company. Immediatel,
an increase in rates was announced