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Show CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS f Mountain .States Company Aihuralet t (.'oiiiiiillous , l i :m) i:mpi,ovi:s Denver, Colo., Feb. 10. Gieat Inter- I est wuh manifested today In (ho announcement an-nouncement by President Field of the Mountain States Tclephono & Telegraph Tele-graph company that hu Is In hearty accord with thu plan for thu control ot Cho company ho represents! by state utilities commissions elected by thu people, Tho company, which operalcs 1 in tho seven mouiKalu Btates, Is one of (ho biggest public serving corpora-1 (ions in (hu country, and (his announcement, an-nouncement, coming as It does, In tho midst of public distrust of all corpora-dons, corpora-dons, shows a broad, far-sighted policy ilijWlHilolii; uuicli toward bringing about irHplrlt of confidence In tho company com-pany and its operations. Tho annual report to tho (lreo (liou-ciind (liou-ciind stockholders gives tho company's balance uhect and shows tho growth uf the telephone business In the territory. terri-tory. It contains much of public Interest In-terest and shows (hu healthy condition of tho company and its affairs. Tho report in part cays: "On Do-cembor Do-cembor 31, 1913, wo had In our territory terri-tory 370 exchanges, furnishing service to 200,010 exchange stations; thero aro 22,550 stations connected with our system sys-tem on tho lines of coiineclliur companies, com-panies, making a total of 222,572 subscribers' sub-scribers' stations In sorvlco on December Decem-ber 31, 1913, an lucreaso or 19,511 during dur-ing tho year. Tho to(al miles of exchange ex-change and loll lines, as of December 31, 1913, wito 538,000.09, an increase of 32,017.10 miles for (ho year, 'louil miles ot exchange and toll wire underground under-ground on December 31, 1913, were 11)0,778.23, Total miles of toll lino on Hie saino dato were 70,98 l.GC. Our company furnished us well to minor companies toll service over 8,019 miles of connecting loll line. Thero aro In Hie lerrKory of tho mountain states system 551 Joint telephone and telegraph tele-graph olllcos, affording facilities to die public much better than those loimerly enjoyed, Two thousand three hundred ulxty-llvo inaio ami ,ius fcnialo employes made possible tho handling or 1,085,113 exchange messages mes-sages per day and 18,307 outgoing toll messages per day, and weio paid for their sen Ices the sum of J,9Jl,i8 during tho year. "Two slates In our territory during tho year 1913 havo uienlcd public utilities utili-ties commissions, viz.: Idaho and Montana. Proloii to this time Arizona and New Mexico had iilrcud) established such commissions, und, by virtue of our previous experience, we have every reason to believe that a bettor and broader understanding between be-tween (lie public and our company Is taking place In consequence. Wo llud that regulation by publlo service com-inlbslons com-inlbslons may be considered an assur-iiiici assur-iiiici of better feeling and an Insurance Insur-ance against unwarranted prejudice. "Our system of accounting Inaugurated Inaug-urated January 1, 1013, upon the order of dm Interstate Commerce CoiiiiiiIb-alon, CoiiiiiiIb-alon, uffonlH a ready scrutiny and an easy analysis of our operations, and him additional value hi that it Is dulj lecalUed by (ho highest authority, thereby lelleviug our company from iuliorso criticism when subject to In- vestlgaduu. I "To close this report without reference ref-erence to tho loyally und hearty cooperation co-operation of our 5,009 employes would ho unfair, both to them and to tho stockholders, whoso Interest they have so thoroughly ut heart. The benefit plan referred to In thu report of last year has proven emlnontly satisfactory, satisfac-tory, and has, I am posldve, cemented I the liarmonioiiB relationship between I the operating force and thu Investor. I "It would also hu Improper (o close I (his report without some reference to die great va'uo of our relationship with the parent company, Tho American Amer-ican Telephone & Telegraph company Tho past year, in particular, has emphasized em-phasized (he valuo of our association with that company and our co-ordinate corporations which go to niako up thu Uell system. Tho advantages which wo receive In the mutter of engineering and accounting advice, and dio oxchango of Information covering cov-ering operating experiences, am Invaluable In-valuable alike to subscribers, employes em-ployes and stockholders." For somu months tho Mountain Stales company has been telling thu 1 story of Its operations, in advertisements advertise-ments and in tetters, to its subscrlb- ers, and thu continuation of these sta(enien(s by (Ills report is doing much to create coulldonco. |