The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-11-27
Telephone Company Plans
Expenditure $4,000; NeO
Plant and Added Equipment
District Manager Clark An
nounces Much of Work
Will Go to Local Labor.

With the expenditure of sLO3, 900
for the construction OF an outside
plant and new equipment hy the
Southwestern Bell Telephone company
Ardmore is promised unexcclled sery.
ice for the next three to five years.
Announcement of the big project
was made Saturday morning through
James Barron of the Chamber of
Commerce. who has been in close
touch with +. +. Clark district man.
lgcr here.
Tho new outside plant is 10 cost
$50 900; an additional budget of 500.
, 800 is made for the central office
equipment, and a special Morse toll
test equipment viii cost $4,000 and
other equipment will bring the amount
to 100000, MIR. Clark indicates in
his estimates.
The company's engineers IN plan.
ming che present construction pro.
ject. not only took into consideration
the immediate demand for service but
have made liberal allowances so that
with minor extensions the now addi.
tions may be built. Mr.. Barron said.
Mr.. Clark has worked with the
Chamber OF Commerce TO bring about
remedy for the present congcstcd con.
ditions. Barron said This congestion
was brought about by he inability
Of the company 10 make any adJi.
tions TO their plant while under rov.
ernment control and ny the rapid
growth Of the city with It's CORE.
spending demand Tor telephone scrv.
ice.
There are now ais phone uscrs in
Ardmore. with about i0o potential
applications on file.
Work for Local Men
While the telephone company will
necessarily be compelled 90 bring many
OF It's skilled men. TO Ardmore. It was
announced by District Manager CLARK
that all unskillcd labor employed or
the job here would hc recruited from
this city. About 100 extra mon vii
bc needed when work ls started with
in the next 80 days About one hoh
the cost or the now work viii h,
paid out rs salaries and wages
at Is difficult for the average cit.
ircn TO visualize n vast telephone con
structior ,ob such rs this" sqld NJ
Clark. whereas thcy cau so, the
progresG on n ilrrr building IN mo
course q construction. IN work u. 0ur
kind they only Sec small -rouD' Of
men at work IN various grc.inns Of
;he city. We expect 20 complete this
job within four or five months. which
viii really mean rapid rro-roa. whru
the immcnsity Of the project with an
OF It's numerous details are taken into
consideration.
This work consists or cNtcn ling
The telephone lines underground from
n street on Main. west tp Blond.
way and I street and placing from the
end Of this new subway construction
back to the office, the maximum size
cable known az twelve hundred and
twelve pair cable, which has twenty.
four hundred and twpntyfopr small
copper wires, wrapped ndy dually
with thin paper. An OF these twenty.
four hundred and twenty four wires
are contained Ia a lead pine which
Is about "a! inches in diameter.
New Gables to h. Isri
From the end OF this large cable.
smaller size cables will he extended
aerialy on new pole lines west ans
north. In all other sections Of the
city new cable will boz placed. either
to replace cables, the capacity Of
which has been outgrown by the city.
making larger cables necessary. oi
new cables will be extended into addl.
ilons which have recently been bunt
mp in the city. The new underground
conduit extension ON this Job covers
$500 feet
There will be 1900 feet of cable
containing 2l24 wires, which is the
largest telephone cable now being
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