Sixteen-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphist" id="mwjg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Telegraphist">telegraphist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Stewart_Udall" id="mwjw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ella Stewart Udall">Ella Stewart</a> keys and sends the first telegraphed message from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Territory" id="mwkA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Arizona Territory">Arizona Territory</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_Telegraph_Company" id="mwkQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Deseret Telegraph Company">Deseret Telegraph Company</a> office in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Spring_National_Monument" id="mwkg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pipe Spring National Monument">Pipe Spring</a>.<sup about="#mwt67" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_15#cite_note-11" id="mwkw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwlA">[11]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt71" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":":6"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-:6-12"}}' id="cite_ref-:6_12-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_15#cite_note-:6-12" id="mwlQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwlg">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt64" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMcKoy2000">McKoy, Kathleen L. (2000). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JsD9o6SQQ6UC&amp;q=%22The%20first%20message%20was%20sent%20from%20there%20on%20December%2015,%201871.%22" id="mwBrc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBrg">Cultures at a Crossroads: An Administrative History of Pipe Spring National Monument</i></a>. <a href="./United_States_Department_of_the_Interior" id="mwBrk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Department of the Interior">U. S. Department of the Interior</a>, <a href="./National_Park_Service" id="mwBro" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a>, Intermountain Region. p.<span id="mwBrs" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>35.</cite><span about="#mwt64" class="Z3988" id="mwBrw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Cultures+at+a+Crossroads%3A+An+Administrative+History+of+Pipe+Spring+National+Monument&amp;rft.pages=35&amp;rft.pub=U.+S.+Department+of+the+Interior%2C+National+Park+Service%2C+Intermountain+Region&amp;rft.date=2000&amp;rft.aulast=McKoy&amp;rft.aufirst=Kathleen+L.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DJsD9o6SQQ6UC%26q%3D%2522The%2520first%2520message%2520was%2520sent%2520from%2520there%2520on%2520December%252015%2C%25201871.%2522&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+15"></span></span>