. Electrical world. y iron wire used by the telegraphcompanies. The United States Telephone Company, whose officesare in Cleveland. Ohio, has several thousand miles of long-distancetelephone line, over which they are doing a very heavy simultaneoustelegraph and telephone business, having leased lines to a numberof brokers in Cleveland and other cities, such as Pittsburg. Pa.:Youngstown, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio. Their lines also carry thebulk of telegraph work done by the Associated Press in Ohio, andsome business for the Steel Corporation between Cleveland, Ohio:Pittsburg, Pa.; Wheeling, W. V
. Electrical world. y iron wire used by the telegraphcompanies. The United States Telephone Company, whose officesare in Cleveland. Ohio, has several thousand miles of long-distancetelephone line, over which they are doing a very heavy simultaneoustelegraph and telephone business, having leased lines to a numberof brokers in Cleveland and other cities, such as Pittsburg. Pa.:Youngstown, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio. Their lines also carry thebulk of telegraph work done by the Associated Press in Ohio, andsome business for the Steel Corporation between Cleveland, Ohio:Pittsburg, Pa.; Wheeling, W. Va., etc., as Well as for some of thecoal mining companies. They have been successfully carrying onthis line of work, now, for more than two years. The simultaneoustelephone and telegraph equipment was put in operation by thewriter while engineer for the United States Telephone Company. Fig. 14 shows a circuit map of the United States Telephone Com-panys lines in Ohio. This territory is subdivided into districts over. FIG. 24.—TEST PAXEL, SHOWIXG .METHOD OF BUILDING UP SIMUL-TANEOUS TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CIRCUITS. which the superintendent of that district is held responsible for theservice of both telegraph and telephone equipment. Fig. IS is printed merely to indicate the density of toll line serviceoperated by the various independent companies in Ohio, Indiana andMichigan. As a matter of fact, the network lacks many newlines. These lines are tributary to the United States TelephoneCompanys long-distance trunk lines. In the State of Ohio theUnited States Telephone Company now operate more than of copper metallic circuit and is connected with 498 independenttelephone exchanges, which operate more than 140,000 telephonesand through the tributaries, such as various independent toll lines,reach 1,470 cities, villages, towns and hamlets in the State of 16 is a map of the lines radiating from Columbus and illustrates how territories are mapped out for the va
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