CenturyTel of the Gem State CenturyTel of the Gem State CenturyTel of the Gem State, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Idaho and northern Nevada owned by CenturyLink. The company was established in 1901 as the Gem State Utilities Corporation. The company was acquired by Telephone Utilities in 1966 as the first company TU would acquire to expand its footprint. The state of Nevada approved the company's request to provide telephone service in the state in 1973. The company became CenturyTel of the Gem State, Inc. in 1998. The company was part of Pacific Telecom until 1997, when it was
State highways deleted by the Utah State Legislature in 1969 which was subsequently renumbered to SR-26 as part of the 1977 Utah state route renumbering in order to avoid confusion with US-50. State Route 53 connected SR-8 (now US-6/US-191) at Wellington with SR-6 (now US-40) west of Myton via Nine Mile Canyon Road. The road was taken over on January 10, 1916, and immediately reused to replace part of SR-37 in Ogden after its 1969 deletion. State Route 54 was created as a renumbering of a branch of SR-12 to Tropic. That same year, a new State Route 120 was created, continuing the road from Tropic to Henrieville, and in