Show BOTH COMPANIES SEEK NEW NE W PATRONS Struggle Is NoW On for Tele Telephone Telephone phone Supremacy in Da Davis Davis vis County BUSINESS MEN NEUTRAL INTERESTING BATTLE BETWEEN RIVALS CLOSELY WATCHED V Special eSpecial to The I Kaysville Jan thE recent cut In monthly telephone rentals from 3 2 to made by the Rocky Moun tam Bell Belf Telephone company to meet the rates of the Davis County Independent Telephone company the campaign for new patrons Is being waged by both corn com companies panics with considerable vigor The struggle for telephone supremacy in inthe Inthe the county dates practically from the time of at tile the organization of the local company compan Soon after the Rocky Mountain Bell Tele Telephone phone company entered the Utah field It extended Its lines through the various towns ot of Davis county In about 1900 1600 it established an exchange at Kaysville and shortly afterward exchanges In Bountiful ful and Farmington In October 1900 1006 considerable damage was done to the lines of the Bell company by Ii a heavy wind windstorm windstorm storm necessitating the expenditure of a great deal of money in repairs During that year following the repair of damages the company raised r In Davis county as the reason that it had beer been operating previously at ata ata a loss Wit Increase in rates steps were taken by a number of at Davis county business men toward the organization of ofa ofa a local company to supply the people of the county with telephone service The promoters of the new company claimed that good service could be given at the rate of 1 a month Li In May just before the tho new company was organized the Bell people Invited anyone any one In the county to Inspect the company books and ascertain for themselves the financial condition of the Davis county plant Several persons from froni Davis count county went to the Salt Lake office of tile Bell company and examined the tho books Unable to Agree Shorty Shortly after this the Davis County Independent Telephone com company pan was or organized with Sumner Gleason ot of Kas KayS vie yule a as president The Bell company then offered to sll sell It its Davis county plant to the nev com company pan but the two companies could not agree on the purchase price and negotiations were called ol off Tile The local company then proceeded with the erection of Its lines throughout the county and have at the present time reached a as far north as Lyton Layton The Bel Bell people maintained their prices at the 3 mark When hen some of the men of were asked to sign an agre e ment not to use Bel Bell telephones they re refused refused fused on the ground that they did not want to take any part in the controversy between the two companies I It WaS then that the Bel Bell company compan reduced the pric price for month party telephones V from 3 2 to 15 pr per The following report made November 3 30 19 1909 shows the status of the Davis County Independent Telephone company Cost of plant and Labor Total Receipts for Apri April quarter Receipts for July quarter 1360 Receipts for October quarter 2165 Power sold 1070 Total Operators wages rents etc Repairs and maintenance Total s Cost of construction Total revenues Total Indebtedness |