Identifier : belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich ( find matches )
Title : Bell telephone magazine
Year : 1922 ( 1920s )
Authors : American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects : Telephone
Publisher : (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library : Prelinger Library
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telephone exchanges. Construction of this line, connect-ing Denver, Central City, IdahoSprings, and Georgetown with thebooming Western Slope camp of Lead-ville was a staggering job for bothman and beast. When the high alti-tudes were reached, a base camp wasestablished at timberline, with a largecrew working toward the top. All materials had to be maneuvered to thesummit by men and horses. Simplygetting to and from work each dayoften meant an arduous climb of sev-eral thousand feet in the thin andbrittle air of this altitude. It had been planned to lay sub-marine cable in a shallow trench overthe top section as a protection to theservice against the vicious storms thatswirled over the crest. But the snowscame early in 1899, and the cable hadnot arrived, so a crew under MurrayMacNeill, present plant extensions en-gineer of the Mountain States Tele-phone and Telegraph Company, laidinsulated wire over the snow for useduring that first winter. The wire 28 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY
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