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Show ii L " I . J Vw II..,....'. v . It .... - . -,-o.;. . - y . . i w. A i j.n, i .: - .- . 1 la t ' .. t..i.v. .ra. ob-t' ob-t' : 1 n l-.i'TT!' v w'.'.h (..-ciu'.a v the I :" I.' .i:r, '. n r.oil T :; ! i n ronn-any, anj fie ' ' ul..n vi.i '.i ho obtained his teen ' ' In the f'ilowli K statPiTifnt. :.s c4t of C-: g bm ii. ss Id lt, LaVa will IiTTease stcaii:y with the growth of the city. T! 're Is no djtibt ahviit .that:, ana merchants r,. 1 irnfi-sslonal mm know that rents, -taxes! wafis and all burinefs cxpenaea will be hisher f:T r. year to -enr. While the greater eppor-t eppor-t Jtil .l.'s' for profit should ofTsot the lnerwuse In exoc rises, atlll Unneccegary expenses Will always al-ways bf a burden. The buslne!s men of 'fealt'Lake are now In a rosition to find out for themiaelvea whether the. expense of two telephone systems la necessary ne-cessary to the Increase of their business or a burden which they have voluntarily assumed. Anv buninem man will concede ht one good telephone eystem Is not only a necessity but an economy. In moat Instance! tlie aavlng In pisttre ecj stationary, the savins In car' tare, or 'the saving in horse flesh, would alone ' ' more than pay the telephone coirt. while In ail cases the aavlng In time Is beyond computation. compu-tation. It haa been ewtlmateU that the average aver-age business man could bettor afford to pay ten "times what his telephone service costs him lather than do without It. The more he ti-es it, the most rrolit he makes from It, : Whether the pront la doubled if he haa two telphones on his desk, is the Question which t-ait Lake has undertaken to work out for - itself. , , .' j- t-UoulJ this city, like others, find from Its exierlence that two telephones are an nne-ceary nne-ceary "burden, and that competition cannot " reduce rates without reducing the value of the sertlee, the added expense" must atlll be carried, tir the two plants have been Installed In-stalled and there is no reason to believe that 1 either company will cease doing business. While the Introduction of the several telephone tele-phone systems la Irrevocable, there la a great ' mistake which the business men may make If - ' " - i ; i ;r.y f.r reralr'.j g en I rei.iac'rc t,em. The eioromy wouij iw r x- ti:ct h,:, tamed b Wtruna of a towel auj.j.ly rom- any. If nu h a con i':in,7 were e'.ro cor.Ht u t y lnven;in new tr.l better tjwe.s to rv.ace those omy half worn out. i Put the i-i l-f tri-k" of. t,!ie . Arnerlean ,Ti--Tnur.e enj Tel. itnii.h ci'mpanV la to finance the Improvements and ext. naionis, which are nw;eesury Jn ord. r to keep j a e with the public pub-lic demand for telephone .fu.i.uties,- The new rroney which the Beil companies require for this purpose each yer aKcreirntea between '), OfKJ.i") and l0.MO.t.). That euch surhs are obtainable year after yeer at the lowest market mar-ket ratee is In ltafclf a'luiarantee that the capital of the Bell companies represents ac-, ac-, tual property value. The. parent company has 1'ftt'l dolitr for dvl'ar on every shaja cf the Itocky Mountain Bell Telephone company's etock thet ft hojd. Abr.ut 1.3k.n,00e has been furnished j the Long DUtance company toward to-ward the building of the plant of the cky llountaln Bell, and only the interest on "his amount at 6 per cent Is sent bark to Bostrfh. The American people want the beat telephone tele-phone eervlce. Just as they want the best of other things, and yet they forget that the best in this cane la not merely a matter of trans-Jmlftsion. trans-Jmlftsion. .and atraratiia, but the best, and thnt la the .widest possible field -of telephone talk. - - - , : The Rell management appreciates this, -end with data from iH.Oo.) cities, towns and: Milages Mi-lages where. Bell facilities are . rrovided, the nitwt capable telephone men obtainable are 2!unning to make the telephone of the frreat-est frreat-est poedible use to the people, and therefore of the greatest profit to those wbo have put their, money, and will put" their money Into the business. The record of other cities shows that ousi-nees ousi-nees mn are HI advised when they try to override the scientific principles ef he business, busi-ness, and that the' burden of competition Is not lesvne by arbitrary efforts to limit the scope of the telephone's usefulness at large, for 1t Is only .by. providing all classes of people with rvtf-c nt " , roivirtionate to their us" . ' . -,tl the tele phone's usefulness la attaineeV JmLLl 4 they do not eonstder the question fairly and broadly. When they begin to feel the burden , of two telephones it is natural for telephone-. telephone-. users to call for an arbitrary reduction of rates, hoping ta get two telephones at the J price of one. . If this could be done It would be the worst possible thing for the business men " of Bait Lake, because tt would mean a llmlt- Ing of the number of telephones connocted , with either system, and consequently a re- k strictlon of the opportunities for profit to the ueer, and evecy connection Is an opportunity for proht. Take the case of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company,-which although It has the .lowest minimum rate, has the highest tnaxl-i- mum rate. Its schedule may be susceptible to some rearrangement In detail, but In the main, its plan of rates la the result of tho-comblned tho-comblned x experience of the Bell companies f durtng the last twenty-five or thirty years. r They have dii)vered that by the fairest possible pos-sible distribution of the cost of telephone service ser-vice in proportion to Its use by the sub-sort sub-sort her, more people will be Induced to put - in telephones, and the value Of the telephone service thereby Increased. The Bell companies have carried telephone faciiltlea within reach of to 000,010 of the - American people and are spending J3.000.0uu of new money a month to reach the rest of the jiopuuitlon, . It would Tie possible for the Rocky Mountain Dell company to charge one flat rate for all subscribers, bat that would mean thatx the . smaller users would pay for their own service and a large share of the service of the big users. The amall users Who could not, or would rot. stand tbls Injustice would drop cut. and Instead of a public utility. Salt Lake ' y would have a limited utility. ' which only the ? stimparatlvely rich could enjoy. The small users having learned the value of the tele-. tele-. phone would not submit to this deprivation, tut wyuld naturally Induce a third telephone company to begin oiwration on a plan that would place telephone facilities within their f reach. This third company would . be. con-'. con-'. 't fronted with the same iroblem either a 11m-" 11m-" ited rate or a limited list of subscribers. This paralyzing condition need not be feared. ", as It Is reasonably certain that the Bell company com-pany will not abandon a plan which has given fialt Lake 7uo0 telephones In actual use. . and has made It possible for one person In ? every ten to become a subscriber. The telephone business is peculiar In two - ' points, namely that an Increased number of ' ; customers means Increased expense for the service given each customer and an Increased value of the service to each custiimer. The business of all the Bell companies Is being developed along those lines with the asalst- ance of the American Telephone and Tele- grai'h comjrtuiy. which la more commonly - known 8s the Bll long distance compaay. This Is the company which has strung noarly a million of miles of copper wire for long distance dis-tance talk, and which is now -building the ' v f.rat telephone line across the plains to connect 4 the Rocky Mountain region with the central . we-t. and .this Krent company, as it Is called, is a' majority owner In the thirty odd , companies which make up the Bell system. This long distance compkiy maintains a force of over 1J0 of the best engineers In this coun-try. coun-try. who are constantly trying to Improve the ,. apparatus., the conatruction and the service of i' the Bell companies. r The RockV Mountain Bell company calls upon the long distance company freely for (Uiv enclnerlng assistance It needs. Just as It calls on it for money needed for Improvements and extensions. Thrf long distance company al has a large force of expert accountants, whose services are available to the local ' comranles without expense. Through the factories of the Western Kleo-c. Kleo-c. trie, a sub company, the long distance torn- - i-8ny is able to provide the local companies'. " Willi standard telephone apparatus -and sup-'' sup-'' 1 li'-s, at the lowest possible price. ' Telephone r. li-.-uamrau. and--switchboard are manufactured manufac-tured i.;r Ahe Bell companies In such quantities quanti-ties ttrjt every practicable economy Is real-lr..il. real-lr..il. Telephone receivers and transmitters of the rut.:' slani'anl design are supplied to the local l'!l companies., by the parent company, - ; v at a fixed annual charge, which is less than It i . w,ul k cost the Individual compiinles If they bought the Instruments outright, and had to A Guaranteed Cure for Files. Itching. BUnd, Bleeding or Protruding Flics. Your druggist will refund monev if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure you la to U daya. 60c |