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Show MERGER OF INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE LINES COMING BUFFALO, N. Y.. Oct. 2S A dispatch was printed horo today stating that the much-rumored merger of Independent telephone tel-ephone lines between Kansas City and New York was about to be consummated. Burt G. Hubbell, president of the Intcr-Occan Intcr-Occan Telephone and Tolegraph company, th leading Independent lino In this vicinity, vi-cinity, said tonight that the project had been submitted to him by men of means and ho thought tho deal much nearer consummation than It ever had been before. be-fore. According- to tho plans outlined, all the Independent companies between here and New York city In the east. Kansas City In the west and Mobile, Ala., In the south are to be merged, said Mr. Hubbell. Twelve companies will go Into the syndicate, syn-dicate, giving a complete and Immediate long-distance service between Buffalo, Rochester. Cleveland. Detroit. Toledo, Philadelphia, Syracuse. St. Louis and Intermediate In-termediate points. The merger association as announced will unite 20.000 miles of poled and a group of companies with a total Invested capital of $200,000,000. |