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Show BELL COMPANY'S NEW RATES The Management Sends a Circular to Letter to Salt Lake Business Men In accordance with the proposition made to the citizens' committee on Christmas eve. the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company Is sending out a circular letter to the business men of Salt Lake City, giving notice of a readjustment re-adjustment of business rates which goes into effect from January 1. The text of the circular Is as follows: "As a good pubMc servant, the Kocky Mountain Bell Telephone company has undertaken to place the telephone within with-in reach of all the people of Salt Luke City and the intermountaln region. An unusually .large number of new telephones tele-phones have been Installed durln? 1904, particularly In Salt Lake City, where there are now between 70tW and S000 telephones actually connected. We have added recently 3000 new residence subscribers to our Salt Lake exchange, a large proportion of Ihem at the low rate of $1 a month, and each new subscriber sub-scriber has increased the value of the business man's telephone, and the number num-ber of calls dally made through it. Kvery business man will appreciate that it would be Impossible to get a It-velopment of over 7000 telephones In a city of 70,000 people without offering a low minimum rate which is really less than the cost of the service, and every business man will also appreciate liiat a service that offers the business man over 7000 connections costs more and is worth more than one that supplies sup-plies lens than that number. "We have demonstrated that our system of rates, which charges the biggest big-gest user the maximum price and the "littlest user the minimum price, although al-though it gives a bare profit, means the development of a great telephone busl- nefs, which Is equally desired by the community and the company. More extorsive ex-torsive telephone facilities are needed by business men In order to keep pace w'ith the residence development, and v hile the present rates are below the average, cost and value being considered, consid-ered, we are prepared to offer further discounts for the sake of developing our business facilities as we have developed devel-oped our residence telephones. "I'nder a five-year contract, which thall be for the mutual protection of the subscriber and the company, we of-U of-U r a discount of $1S a year, and under a one year's contract a discount of $1"! a year, for Individual line unlimited business service. We also offer a discount dis-count of $12 a year on Individual line unlimited residence service. If ?aid at the office on or before the 10th day of the first month of the quarter. The party line rate will remain unchani?i, but from January 1. 1903. Individual line rates will be as follows: "Business Five-year contract. J. per year: one-year contract. $78 p year: twelve hundred calls per year, $1 per year. "Rsldence Paid at the office before the 10th day of the first month of each quarter. $36 per year. "The company will gladly furnish information in-formation showing to what extent business bus-iness telephones are overloaded, so that subscribers may contract for such ad- V s ditional equipment as their business demands. "ROCKY-MOUNTAIN BELL TEXA-M PHONE CO." . TJ 4 . . ! - ' J |