At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, there is a two position switchboard in service with 127 telephones requiring four operators to give service. This camp is a city in itself and the telephone system has been built and is being operated as in any city for commercial use. It had to be built and installed quickly. Lots of material and labor were required. In the work at Camp Cody they used about 1,800,000 feet of copper wire in lead cables, about 46 miles of iron wire and five miles of pole line. While Camp Cody is operated under the Mountain States system, it is handled from El Paso. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Saturday, January 26, 1918
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