CenturyTel of the Gem State acquired by Century Telephone. Following this acquisition, Century Telephone launched its rebranding as "CenturyTel" and changed the name of the holding company Pacific Telecom to CenturyTel of the Northwest. Gem State Utilities then changed its name to CenturyTel of the Gem State, Inc. 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
Secondary state highways as branches of Primary State Highway 7 (Washington) 10/PSH 18 in Moses Lake northeast to PSH 7 west of Odessa. The only part of this route that was ever constructed and signed as SSH 7E was a road through Moses Lake from US 10 (later Interstate 90)/PSH 18 in the southwest to SSR 11G in the northeast. Today, this route is SR 171. The leg from SSR 11G (today's SR 17) to the Odessa area has never been constructed and is not part of the modern state route system. Secondary state highways as branches of Primary State Highway 7 (Washington) Between 1937 and 1964, the highway system in