Denver labor bulletin., 1915-02-06

but transmits it thousands of times
faster than its own antural speed.
Line Across Thirteen States.
In spite however. of the fact that
compared with the electrical problems
the mere engineering task of construct
ing the line may appear simple to the
scientist, no one can run his finger over
the route of the new line on the map
without being impressed with the mag
nitude of the undertaking. The data and
figures are tremendous. The line cross
es l3 states; it is carried on 10000
poles. Four hard-drawn copper wires,
.l5G inch in diameter, run side by side
over the entire distance. establishing
two physical and one phantom circuit.
One mile of a single wire weighs 4S5
pounds, the weight of the wires in the
entire line being 5,a20.0o0 pounds. or
2.eJn tons. This of course is the trans
mission wires alone In addition to these
each physical circuit uses some 1900
miles of fine. hair-like insulated wire
$1,000 of an inch in diameter for its
loading coils
One OF the most prominent of the
guests who talked over the longest of
the long distance telephones at the
celebration said:
What il means to the country it Is
impossible to estimate. For one thing.
it j. final blow to seetionalism; il has
put a seal on the fact there is no longer
East and West, North and South Not
even the railroads or the new canal have
done or can do SO much toward bring
ing the states closer together and unit
ing them more firmly. not only in com,
merce but in thought and language.
Provincialism will become rarer and
rarcr; localisms. dislects-all such
things that depend on isolation-are
getting to be an impossibilitv in the
United States, and the telephone has
been the greatest agent in bringing about
this desirable condition. 1t is hard for
people to get very far apart when they
are in such constant touch with each
other and 1 know of nothing which is
doing more TO strengthen the bonds be-
tween individuals and communities
than the network of wires the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company is
spreading over the country. So much i'm
portanec do I attach to this idea that.
extreme as the statement may seem. I
believe quite firmly that had the tele-
phone system reached its present per-
fiction previous to 1861 the Civil War
would not have occurred. The wires
would not have let the North and South
DRIFT SO far apart"
Attracts Worldwide Attention.
THIS new achievement in the telephone
wire attracted worldwide attention.
Denver was particularly interested. as
the Mountain States Telephone Company
plays a prominent part in the PROPOSE
tion. Through the main offices here
pass all the main wircs. and the local
officials have for a long time been busy
pcrfecting the final arrangements. At
the time the main tests were made many
notables were present and participating.
A great deal of the preliminary work
incident to the proper arranging of the
lines was handled from the Denver of.
flee.
+. B. Field, Jr-, vice president of the
Mountain States Telephone Company,
and active in the management Of the
local company, was in San Francisco
after the opening of the line, personally
looking after matters. and held con-
versstion with his wife here over the
wire a. well ns with the local office