Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-22
b|SbEE AGAIN GETS WORLD
 NEWS THRU
 THE REVIEW
Cooperation of the Mountain States Telephone Company
 Enables Publication in War ren District of Press News.
REPAIRMEN STRUGGLE
 TN SNOW TO FIX LINES
Repeating Coil' Attached to Telephone Wire Solves the Problem After Communi- cation with Tuscon.

Bisbee and it's suburbs are (with this issue of The Review in com plete touch with the outside world for the first time since Wednesday nights blizzard leveled telephone and tele- graph poles and wires and otherwise isolated the cno;re community
 With no intention of contributing to lf-acclaim-because it is the mis- sion of a representative newspaper to surmount all obstacles in order to serve it's patrons-The Bisbee Review believes it will be of interest to it's readers to narrate briefly the labor undertaken to fulfil it's duty and ac- knowledge credit to those who have whoIe-heartedly lent their support to give to the public all of the import ant news of the world.
 When service was halted abruptly shortly after l a. m. Thursday. The Review went about to solve the prob lem of restoration District Manager Hugh Gunnison. of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. and Local Manager Ochs. of the Western Union were called i1 con sultation. Each volunteered every re- source at his command It was ex- plained that The Review wanted to be informed immediately when the near est place 10 Bisbee secured a wire connection with any distributing cen ter of news.
 Manager Gunnison dispatched his staff of rapairmen across the Divide Mounted on horses. the men took up the trail of broken poles and dismant- led wires. repairing as they prog ressed. Wire Chief H. B. Nalley and his assistants. James s. McDole and Parker Woodman, Jr.. worked in snow waist-high throughout the night and day.
 At D. m. yesterday Manager Gunnison flashed" word to The Re view that repairs had been completed to Benson and the line was open thence to Tucson sufficiently to carry on limited conversation. With this initial goal won The Review pressed it's inquiries and requests both West and East until communication was se- cured with Fl Paso over a single wire. Fl Paso answered that Asso- ciated Press dispatches would be for warded to The Review to Tucson but on account of the complete loss of further than that. the ef- forts to bring the Warren District into telegraphic communication with the outside world would doubtless be 
 Newspapers. however. never admit defeat in publicservice venture SO Manager Gunnison again was appealed to. He was asked if it was not pos sible to eGuip the Tucson telephone wire into Bisbee with what is known as repeating coil''
 'It has been done" he said some what dubiously. A moment later he And it SHALL be done"
 For the benefit of the lsyman. it may be explained that by installing a repeating coil". a transmitting wire can be called upon for double service In other words. the Mountain States Telephone wire to Tucson was into telegraph service with ous jeopardizing its usefulness for telephone communication.
 Connection was them rushed De. tween the Bisbee office of the Noun tain States Company and the local telegraph office where Manager Ochs took charge of the receiving end of the venture. The Gunlison-Ochs- Review combination proved invincible in the face of what had seemed un- obstacles.
 Shortly af;er s o'clock last night. he long distance" operator in Den Ter for the Associated Press (of which The Review is member) clicked off he first words of world news sent 70 the Warren District since the bliz ssrd By the hsrd-won route which las been described briefly above. this
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