| Show FARMERS TELEPHONES In many parts of ot the country linen lilies run between the hou of It farmers Fringing the principal tam fun tile bias of ot the community oom mu nit In with each other and have become very ery popular There la ts tm tatter factor actor for tor eliminating the IsolatIon anti and Lonesome Lonesomeness noun ness ne of faini tum life lite The telephone Is not audi uch an all old OlIn con concern cern It IL III IB only about bouL 23 13 years the telephone was WILB and tho th ho peculiar thing about It Is hi that Its Us wen Were never of or for tor a n alent lent lonu lon time after It was 18 discovered a Some Seine H tc yours years ago busine i 8 men besan using it OB RII a It convenience anti tush It 11 got Eol to 10 tobe tobe be Je a t 1 necessity and the last la t two or three years yearn It that nt the tele tete telephone telephone phone l t adapted d to the tue trio Mill that the farmer amoUr needs It worle corse vor e than anybody else l e and antI that the tho farmer can g get t a telephone cheaper than anybody y el eIs e eHe lie He can build fil his hili tn sn line lint and maim tain tl tam 10 It cheaper than can the business man In the city for tor the sImple reason that lines line In the country colin try cost tar far ar than lines linen In the thi city elt The Time following U Is taken from an n ad 91 address dross dress delivered before the Wisconsin T Institute by eOrge e Wight of ot Will Vis and an shows I how cailly cally a farmer telephone el com I I piny Itally can call be b e utta 1110 now nol al ly Iy the system can curi b bl Installed and op nt operated Mr Ir Wylie says lays saysA laysA A at farmers farmer line hue li is largely a n question ol of organization Personally Per I 1 would not farmers farmer to turin form large com cant Ian In and amid KO go Into tIle the 11 of ot if coy cov CO ring an on county because It takes too much time to run the company after It la lii I hut but circumstances niter otter i and conditions are lire different in indifferent Indifferent I different localities In lit our oiti locality lucidity we go about It In about till way Aay a A few tew farmer K Rt get t together mid a n Hue hire Our Oum company was waH by lIy five of or u together tOl lher anti and talking the Ito mutter atter over We or organized to build JO 10 mIles of ot line and otter estimating the cost coat eo l we estimated estimate nat WK w could afford to let lei anyone elSe elg comp com In to for tor Whoa Whet wo we coma came to buIld the lit linn litie wo VO fount found that thal neatly every everybody hotly body wanted to 0 get set onto auto It It We Vt l rom rOil in the country and built In toward the station We were exercised as to 10 whom we could coul R get fIt t to attend to the tile business In the We Ve came Illmo cameto to hit conclusion that bitt we w would have ha hato has hasI to I buy huy a n there anti and put somo one erie on hero U ru to attend to tt that end of or tile the MEK m WANT CO EC TION Wit Wrt found when we got ot to the station that nearly every business man In that statIon notwIthstanding the taut fait t thin t ot or them thum hud hind phones on a toll loll lint 11 II t wanted to be with lIh the Tarot en era line Thin was wan a surprise IU c at nt first but It was easy ray to 10 toe see why It was isas us TOO lne were there re for the lie purpose e of or doing business with the farmers f and th farmers telephone hellM thuir trade First tho the stockmen wanted wanlo the tile connection tion then tire time unto man sunning the thc he lumber I yaw yard alO then the man the tile doctor I and the lie merchant The Till result was tas that the line was wils a U greater H than we ste anticipated I You will III find nilI In every community In the state of Wisconsin today People Wanting to 10 get Iret onto a ft JIll If you have more than titan ten who want wont to get together er ci and form a n would advise nd forming two to companies com lIles It II takes lIkes less Unlit tints t Lu attend to the this bu inc 8 s Make Mahe the utica lines A company consisting of or sIx nix Ix or eight or 10 du r not hot give Mie ive any moru trouble titan than attend attending lug ing to tile the business Of ot an annual meeting and none nant of ot the get cel uny misty COST Ol OF A LINK LINKAs As 11 to the cost I Hn timid lid J thai the farmers are nrc very ery much at itt tea fea ea as U to 10 the lie cost COil It of It ft line und and they have an Ide too that It II takes some aunts technical practical liCal I al o In Iii order to build a n tele telephone tel em phone lint line This Is a The fact Is s that any man maim that run ran dig tIlff a n post posthole hole anti and net lIet et a II post and draw a L wire can call put tut up a 11 telephone line Any Ani i man lilun that thai ever ver saw a n telephone wet flit et together and set lei up u ran can set sut ct up tele tote telephones phones phIllie himself It Is IR tIle the simplest prop proposition Imaginable but hut 10 most loam mai send out JUt their phones all nil allet allet lIet et up uI Some farmers are h Ii littia afraid to go 10 gonto into nto a n company with willi anybody else elte Thy They lire are re afraid of ot tilts this word sord cooper They set get theIr Plea Idea from coop creameries or cooperative fcc fac factories tories ot of some gome kind thoy they have II e been on om n with und anti lost money mane A 10 0 o telephone line hue at of this kind Is II in tin entirely different proposition from front a n cooperative creamery or a cooperative anything ol ohio o und ond for tor tile thin reason You a IlL cooperative creamery and an as ann Alla asa a n rule MIle unless It IB Is run right trouble Ic e Kin gIns You build a 1 telephone line anti and It III la built buill that Is all nil there Is III to w wIt It It Itself It must maE only be kept In repair There li is I always money enough In III the treasury to 10 employ a 1 aman aman man to RO go 0 out and amI repair the line AND ANt COST We V find too that there them t are certain toll line men that are opposed to farm farmen I en tOS line The rite idea Is II tIlls this The toll line people ure are not In l business fur for health and aims their Idea Is 18 that Ihal It the tho tanners wilt will orlly otly wall wait long longI I enough I ounh they the will get Wt around sumo dAy to 10 built build a 1 line for them Tho rho tanner farmer can build cheaper than anybody else I e can do doIt doit It for him I have hn here hero some name figures showing shoving this the cost COM approximately of 01 a II telephone line per pr mile They may not nol be exactly correct but are based baaed 11 upon prices lIned quoted within the last MX six months White hU or burr o OB osk k poles e each 33 I to 10 tIme the th mime mIlt 8 SOO holes holu and ann setting roles poles at nt litOf tOe Of each ach eh 2 to pounds oun No o 10 0 wire at 8 11 per lot pounds fl XI at lOre Insulators at le each i and nd fastening wires to pole polen OO Total fetal co Cost COlt t one mile 2131 It If tho the work smock Is II I dorie Ilone by b the formers aa as It lual Is I 1511 for digging bolts bol setting poles polen anti and I anti fastening wire Ire heaving the actual cash outlay for tor on om mile or art If It the fanner can furnish 1101 vol suitable deduct JS S 1 M mug Int the tho actual cash outlay tar for one mile 1412 If It cedar ar poles are Aft r add Ki Kii i nta P pr r pole making the 1111 thet t lital ml cost of ot one mile mill With cedar und No o 10 wire J 2932 The rho above figures are for tor a n Single wire sire or ground line lint Far lor a metallic dr druit ull uit double the out cost of ot wire an the ex cx exi x i l ense nj e of ot anti and tying I 1111 the th wire to it poles or a neighborhood nl line IIII cov COl covering ering say My 40 10 o or o 0 t miles a 9 ground dr cit cult Nill Mill be found to 10 give equally as 81 service If It not better thin than a mt ml circuit A ground circuit can oon n easily as ily Ii hI be lie changed t I tu a Ii metallic at any ony tune after att r the line It Is built |
