Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-15
PRESCOTT TO HAVE NEW
 $4o,OOO PHONE SYSTEM
(From Thursdays Daily.)


 Approximately $4O,OOO will be spent in the city of Prescott on an entirely new telephone system by the Noun tain States Telephone & Telegraph Company in the course of the next few months, according to plans filed with the city council at its December meeting yesterday morning by Dis trict Manager R. M. Buehler.
 A complete new system of poles and wiring which will be about eight miles in length, is to be installed. The wires will be enclosed in cables and the poles will all be erected in the alleys of the city. No open wires, and real first class service, is the idea behind the proposal which now is up to Mayor Timerhoff to o. K.
 Five miles of the eight will carry cables containing from Is to 200 pairs Of wires and the other three miles in the sparsely settled districts will car " insulated wire. Leading from the operating room and general office of the company which will remain as they are in the Masonic Temple will be 600 feet of conduit carrying three cables containing 400 pairs of wires each. From this the cables will be carried to the poles, branching out in all parts of the city.
 Every pole will be new and will be painted and every length of wire and cable will be just out of the factory. The new system, it is said, will add to the efficiency of the present outfit by over 50 per cent. The new system is known as the "cable system"
 District Manager Bueiler stated yesterday that although the telephone service of Prescott has been as good as could be expected under the pres cnt conditions, he expects to make a wonderful improvement over the quality of the service now being giv- en the public, because with the new system the wires will not be exposed to rain, snow and storms.
 The company sees bright future ahead for Prescott, and the surround ing country which is about to expert ence very substantial boom. As result it was thought advisable to put in the new system not only to pre- pare for the future but to give this city a first class telephone service and one of :hc best equipped establish ments in the entire State.
 It is highly probable that Mayor Timerholf after City Engineer Waara has gone over the plans will grant the telephone company permission to start work on the "cable system" Construction will then be started i'm mediately as the material is now on the road and some of it has already arrived. The question of granting permission to the cotnpany was left in the hands of the mayor on vote of the council.
 The present system was installed in 1901 by Frank L. Wright. At that time Prescott had two competing tel ephonc companies which were merg- ed ill 1904 and the combine was known as the Prescott Electric Co. In 1910 the Prescott Electric Co. sold out to the Arizona Telephone & Tele- graph Company which company in 1912 sold the entire system to the Mountain States Telephone & Tele- graph Company of Denver.
 Company engineers who were in Prescott last spring laid out the plans which were presented to the council yesterday. But four weeks ago, four of the big men of the company were in Prescott looking over the situa- ton with District Manager Buehler. They were Division General Manager C. E. Stratton, General Traffic Super intendent W. F. Cozad, Division Plant Superintendent o. F. Tesctner and Division Commercial Superinten- dent Dean D. Clark. All four of the men after going over the plans and looking into the situation thoroughly were well impressed with Prescott and this city's future and were conf. dent that the outlay will be a we'll warranted expenditure.
 Reports.
 C. A. Peter, the city treasurer, re ported as follows: Cash on hand November 1st, $42,3740o; casn re- ceived for taxes, $l7,005.56; cash re- ccived, $3,5431l; expenditures, $9, 967.4S; cash on hand November 50th, $52,955.O8.
 City Health Officer H. T. South worth reported five births and six deaths for the month of November.
 City Judge F. C. Whisman reported 26 cases, in one the defendant being committed and the other 25 of the defendants forfciting bonds which az orpo-afed fLe r;t,, c115