The Alberta Provincial Government's telephone lines have been completed in most
parts of inhabited Alberta.  Work continues at a brisk pace in many unfinished
areas.  The Calgary-Hudson's Bay Line is now complete and instruments will be
installed shortly.  The line from Mcleod to Blairmore and Franklin is partially
complete and will be operational shortly; the same applies to the line from 
Wetaskiwin to Hardisty and the one from Lacombe to Stettler.  The section from 
Edmonton to Lloydminster is completed as far as Vegreville and will be operational
before the first snow falls. Instruments have been distributed northward from 
Edmonton for about thirty miles along the line to Athabasca Landing and the rest 
of the apparatus will be distributed and the wires strung on the government 
telegraph lines this fall.  If it is not completed, the system will be in such shape
that it will finished by early spring.  When completed this line will have the 
distinction of being the most northerly telephone line in the world, except the
system in operation at Dawson City, Yukon.  When the Alberta Government promised
to have 500 miles of government line in operation before the end of 1907 there 
were a number of scoffers, but from the progress made by the various gangs, it is
evident that some 600 miles will in operational use this year.