Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-09-21 | Page 6 | Great Electrical Combine

GREAT ELECTRICAL COMBINE Telephone and Telegraph Companies Aro to Amalgamate New York Sept 20In Its forthcoming forthcom-ing issue the Electrical Review will editorially publish this There have been numerous rumors of late concernIng concern-Ing the probable amalgamation of all the telephone and telegraph companion of lhc United States The Electrical Review was recently Informed that rapid progress was being made in this direction by the financial interests in the leading companies These are the American Telephone and Telegraph company which now Includes the American Bell Telephone company the Western Union Telegraph company and tile Postal Telegraph Cable company com-pany It Is predicted by those In position posi-tion to know that those Interests will be consolidated into one big company lo be known as the National Telephone and Telegraph company and that such 1 consolidation will be consummated before be-fore the end of the present year I