. Bell telephone magazine . d routing of pole shipmentsto railheads of the various construc-tion sections. To accomplish thisemergency cutting out and switching,the freight cars had to be locatedwhile still east of Salt Lake City. A steady flow of supplies was main-tained with minimum waste of timeand motion. The supervising con-struction foremen kept the projectoffices in close touch with supply re-quirements in the field, so that nocritical shortages could develop inany of the sections. In fact, the fore-men walked every inch of their sec-tions in taking inventory of the mate-rial already in
. Bell telephone magazine . d routing of pole shipmentsto railheads of the various construc-tion sections. To accomplish thisemergency cutting out and switching,the freight cars had to be locatedwhile still east of Salt Lake City. A steady flow of supplies was main-tained with minimum waste of timeand motion. The supervising con-struction foremen kept the projectoffices in close touch with supply re-quirements in the field, so that nocritical shortages could develop inany of the sections. In fact, the fore-men walked every inch of their sec-tions in taking inventory of the mate-rial already in plant. How well thiswork was carried out is shown by thefact that all sections completed theirshare at the same time. Construction Starts The survey for the line was startedon April 25, 1942, and the last stake : driven on August 20. The first pole was set on June 15. The first stepwere coordinated through constant of construction work, which was toteletype communication with the tele- set poles equipped with crossarms and. Digging pole holes by hand in lava-boulder country phone company supplies superinten-dent at Emeryville. Getting poles on the constructionscene was in itself a tremendous task,and the suppliers teamed up with rail-roads and others concerned to do a hardware, string wire for the top armof the main lead, and build two sideleads, was completed on August second step, of installing a sec-ond arm and wire and building a dif-ficult branch pole line to Bishop, Cal., 1944-45 Building the Wesf s New Telephone Route 247 was completed on October 15. Finalclean-up work was out of the way byNovember 20, and the project officewas closed on December i. Fromnorth to south, the job came outeven : the engineering and construc-tion outfits met their schedules; all ofthe many repeater stations were built,equipped, and ready; the circuits wereopened for service at the timeplanned! Pioneers in the Wilderness In the country traversed by thepole line, all of the mountain ran
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