Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-06 | Page 6 | Young Edisons and Phone Company Are at Swords' Points

Young and Phone Company Are AreAt AreAt AreAt At Swords' Swords Points ti s tho Mountain States Tele- Tele D and Telegraph company fear ronI competition from two budding in Waterloo Saturday morning workmen of oC the company destroyed a a. private line lino connecting the residences of or He Heber er S. S Nelson elson 1583 S. S Fourth East Cast street and Sidney Sperry 1375 S. S Third East street This despite de- de I spite that tho the Sperry Nelson line was wa an nn amateur affair built with lith the tho permission of or prop property rt owners and made of oC scrap cra pieces pick picked cd up everywhere e Although tho the lino line has been in uso use several nl years ears It was wag not molested till last spring when I se er several company compan linemen destroyed d it ft I The line was rebuilt with scraps taken from the old Independent company compan The Tue youths who had been using their own poles claim th they obtained permission to hanS hang their small wire on the Mountain States company poles The telephone company com coni- pan pany now claims that tho the scraps Althou although h discarded by the old compan company com corn pan pany still sun belon belong to I it t and tho the youths had no right to use uso them The youths are ore considering bringing suit stilt against as the company compan lor be destruction of or a a. private line