Show AT l FREE PHONES i ir r 1 What Telephone ll Compan lY Must Pay for Franchise Fra chis 0 DEMANDS DE IAN S OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THINK LEGES WORTH wORm SO 4 The county 5 commissioners made lt very plain yesterday afternoon n to a representative of the Rocky Mountain Bell ihl e l Telephone company what whet Is In Intended i tended by the resolution adopted ad Wed Wednesday Wednesday n d y granting the th company ompa y the privilege privilege of constructing and maintaining rii x a a new pole line on State street from Tenth to Twelfth South on condition that the telephone company allow the county such compensation for the privilege privilege liege from time to time as the com corn commissioners commissioners missioners may fix Superintendent Jackson of the telephone made a concession that was fey far away from the Ideas of the commissioners as asto asto a ato to what the company ought to allow and all that he lie could do was to com corn communicate communIcate to his superior officers what the county will wll demand before the privilege is granted I To begin with Avith Chairman Anderson told Superintendent Jackson that tb t the telephone company never had obtained a general franchise from the county count for the occupancy of the highways with poles and wires but at t Various arious times the company had bad been granted I numerous privileges from the county without securing any concessions in return such as the city enjoys Super Superintendent SuperIntendent Superintendent Jackson saw san the point and offered to give the county a rate of 10 60 a year on its telephones except the theone theone theone one at The infirmary providing the county would rent three more instruments instruments ments The refused to bite at this bait b it for they figured that nine telephones at 60 a year amounted to 60 GW yearly more than the rental r on six at the present rate of SO 80 on each The counter proposition of the com corn commissioners missioners was that the telephone com corn company company pany should furnish the use of the four instruments in the county offices and the ones at the infirmary and the free Having In mind that the occupancy oc pancy of the public roads by pole lines is worthy worth of compensation compensation to the public treasury ry that eighty telephones are ar in use In various parts of the coun county county ty outside of the city which fact with the mileage rate and tolls taken Into consideration make the revenues to the as much as three times from that number of instruments rented by city subscribers and nd that the city gets free service for eight tel telephones telephones telephones the commissioners decided to hold out for the concession desired It Is now up to the telephone com corn I pany to say whether it will do as well relatively with the county count as it treats the city Until the company compan yields it will not have hae permission to erect any anymore anymore more pole lines along or across the highways in the county o CIR 0 |