Show STATEMENT FROM THE TIlE BELL Interesting Report of the Big Dig Cos Gos Operations A A representative of at the Deseret News called on nn un of the tho Rocky Moun Mountain Mountain tain tam lieU Hell Telephone company with a ci for tor somo same Information regarding the stand on rates and of at Its operations during the yeAr In answer nn er erlo to lo Inquiries the officIal said sold When a II business man maim quest questions Ions the Iho rate charged by a n successful telephone company he forgets targets that the great reat I bulk of ot the money which Is collected from subscribers subscriber in III the course cour e of Ot a I II ayour your year Is turned back to tr t to o community I In tim payment of ot tho the labor account Dur During DurIng ing lag pot 1904 the Rocky Rook Mountain Dell Bell Tole Tele Telephone phone company hoa hIlS raid patti out for tor labor which means that thit nearly three fourths of ot Its Ia total revenue Is II distributed ed toll d among Its III employee amid eventually lInda Its lis way n back to the people who pay the bills for tor telephone service This chief item lIem of nt expense e Is 18 In Increased increased creased when the tho business Increases to so that any nn when It pays J I s Its Us telephone bill bills I u simply taking money from ono one pocket to put flut It In the other In III tact fact all the money which the Dell Bell company takes taken In Is b put back Into Inlo local loal circulation except 6 G per cent on a II conservative valuation of at Its III In Investment vestment and amid such a 0 j Portion of Its 18 material and supplies as ne cannot be bought In the local markets Even the 0 G tr er cent Interest the he com corn pays on Its It capital Is II not a loss I to 10 the community since nearly halt half of the tho total amount is paid p d to local stock stockholder stockholders holders holder and stay at homo home The taxes tues i which In the tho case CAte of the thi Rocky Heck Moun I tam Hell Telephone company amount to about a rn year are of ot coune course raid paId directly Into Inlo the public treasury for tor the public advantage and Ind the tho money paid for tor real and a II great creat variety I of ot supplies continues continue to I I Ute late among tho the people I In Salt gAit Lake City for tor example there i t are 0 who aro are paid iw M ag aggregate aggregate of at mo a year yr while the In account for tor or this exchange Is only about a year tar Tho The telephone business requires require a n large lar original Investment as liS Is ts shown by the tact fact that the tho Rocky p Uell company COI 1 hm lists hll over Inv simply limplY in toll loll tributary to lake uke City CIl The Thea telo phone bu a liberal ap appropriation apI pro for and Ind ro re I construction Ill lb spite of ot all aJl lions a 1 alt electric current will trill now and then rind hInd Its way IY Into an n exchange and work damage to the tho delicate rd n apparatus Pole 1 lines are t tc tl tt this the devastating ef ot i I of ot sleet l et anti and An J heavy wind end must nUlt bo be frequently replaced even eoll event i IV Ii t they escape devastation There U is no part rt of ot lh tho ma machinery by b which speech I Ih Is II transmuted n a busy bUM which U is not p liable to accident or ovary day II 11 nd mid t tear ar Yel tIme till telephone company lI must Inuit incur Interest charges charge ch to 10 pro provide vide an adequate nt ltd must make II ke A 1 t large I appropriAtion for tor main macmu 1111 in to 10 he be always ready rOAd to i erve 10 Its It customer It Is I above all til allan an Ah employer employ r ot of labor and amid w am such uchi hands hand over ui an overwhelming portion of ef lie Its to 10 men inert women who the lorn local I merchants merchant III arid nd nIl who are ar n a part put of ot IH tJI local community |