Show MILLIONS IN TELEPHONES President F P Fish of the Bell Telephone Company Says Telephone Tele-phone Service Will Be Improved but Not Cheapened Between two and three hundred nill lions of dollars arc lnvcscd in tele hone property In the United States I Plus Is the estimate of Pixaldont F P Fish of the Bell Telephone company who Is here from Boston on a picas uic trip with members of his family III do not think the cost o telephone ervlcu will he materially ruduced In I aid but the improvements will como In the perfection of apparatus and the extensIon of the service The aim of the company now Is 10 get the lob > ihone In the homo o every citizen I There Is no profit In the heapcr phones that is 1 dl reel but ijiiijh phones make the service more valuable to the largo consume Unlike any other business In the world the more telephones that ime put In the greater the cost oC ope atlon Wi < in there Ire but 100 tele > honcs n slile subscriber can receive but flli calls lrcvcase the number to 000 and tho possible number of collections coll-ections with that one Instrument Is no which plainly h Increases the I work for each Individual telephone In tho soniC ratio We establish rates on the same prln iple as the Government in carrying letters Theta Is I n los on the man who writes only one letter n year but It Is the possibility 0 reaching him directly or Indirectly that makes the postal system valuable to the man who malls thousands of letters a year and does pay a profit to the ttovernmcnl The most just and equitable system and Lime one that comes the t nearest t to solving solv-ing hJ problem J have stated IK the measured services That Is almost n parallel with the mcthotl of the Government Gov-ernment In charilii for each letter The Hell company owns some stock in local companies such as the Rocky Mountain here and also supplier instruments in-struments and material The local exchange ex-change Is admirably managed and wo have the greatest conlldencc In timework time-work of Mr Wallace Opposition companies com-panies are learning what we knew years ago that the cost of maintenance Is so great that an allowance of from cent of the receipts 70 lo 80 per ctnt o gross must be made for the one Item Besides President Fish the other members of the party are E F Fish Mls Fish Miss Livermore Lester HI Livermore and Gladys 71 Livermore They have been to Yellowstone Park and Springs will leave tomorrow for Glcnwood |