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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (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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gedmountains of south-central Colorado,and by Christmas of 1951 it hadreached an actual measured depth of12 feet on the level—only therewasnt any level. It was all up anddown, and violent winds had createdmountainous drifts. The Denver-Durango toll line ofThe Mountain States Telephone andTelegraph Company, that connectsDurango, Colo., with larger centerson the eastern slope of the RockyMountains, had gone out of service late in December. Of course therewere other ways to get in to Durangotelephonically: down from GrandJunction on the north or up from xA.1-buquerque, N. M., on the south. Inaddition to through carrier circuitsthat were quickly rerouted over around-about path, this line carriedtwo physical circuits and one phantomcircuit, and the loss of these facilitieswould be felt—what with toll usageon the up grade. The trouble lay in a 17-mile sec-tion of line between Pagosa Springsand Alamosa that follows an oldwagon road over Elwood Pass. The 244 Bell Telephone Magazuie WINTER
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This is FJwood Pass a mile East of the top. The telephone pole line^ extending from the bottojn center of the picture to the upper right., passes the Elwood shelter cabin in a clump of trees at the left just before the line enters the heavy timber modern automobile highway, con-structed since the telephone line wasbuilt, follows a different route in thissection. The result was that foryears the winter maintenance on thissection of line had to be carried out bymen on snowshoes. Relief cabinsstocked with provisions were locatedon the route, because going in therein winter involved a trip of severaldays fraught with danger from snow-slides, extreme weather, and exhaus-tion. These hardships are not new toMountain States men, for they havefaced them over the years in manycrossings of the main range of theRockies. They were first faced wayback in the 80s when a line was builtover Mosquito Pass to reach thebooming mining camp of Leadvilleand connect it with Denver. Theyoccurred again on Imog

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