| Show x MORE THAN UTAH urAH CASH CASHIS' CASHIS IS INVESTED People co e of o This is State Interested to 10 o Extent of o Half a a l Million illion in Rocky oc Mt 1 Bell e Telephone Co o Th of or the report of or the Rock flock ocl Mountain Bell Telephone phone company iti W under de way and will be completed ted before t the tho 10 1st of oC the year car With a view to ascertaining lJ something of or the Increase In the company's business for the thc year car as J as tf the p work of construction cost etc ete a i Telegram rep reporter called upon D D. DS g. g Murray at t the Telephone building and 0 although g h t the he full tull statement ment Is la not t r fr lr I shape for publication It was learned that luring the p past st year ear the company t c had And expended 00 ii In constructing lIn lines extending old ohl ones doubling the lie company's building In this city a and d Installing Its Us new nc central ne rg s switchboard the gre greater part of or such expenditure h. h having b n made In the Utah division l n. n t Every mile of or the company's 1100 1 miles of or toll lines and all of Its six severity e eJ exchanges cs are arc now connected directly v with Sat n. n Lake The number of ot subscribers ers era h has s Increased 40 per cent centi with i h a l increase In the volume of ot toll loll traffic truffle r During Durin the past year the company has mn made t tr traffic ante arrangements with with twenty local companies through the four States thereby b increasing its toll mileage by about 10 1000 miles tl Perhaps th the n mOt most est interesting nS' nS p piece ece of ot information gained was r fully tully half haIr a million dollars of at Utah is 1 that mon mon y at present invested In In the company's company's com corn pany's stock l. l I Incorporated under the laws of at c Utah by Utah men and Its policy i dictated e by Utah citizens it is one of or the l not et t representative local or organizations In the West Starting nineteen years cars ago o th a few scattering toll taU lines JInes and Isolated isolated Iso iso- lilted exchanges s in Idaho and Montana x hav have been built and connections connections connections I supplied d until the tremendous toll mentioned above has brought to the door of oC the Salt Lake merchant ev eny V y ml mining camp and farming community community community in the four our States State of ot Utah Idaho W Warning and Montana For 1903 extensive Improvements are touching all parts of or the system requiring an outlay y considerably in execs of at that shown for 1902 |
