Show FACTS concerning THE TELEPHONE recently city councilman joseph V F alansen made a visit to various parts of the state on matters of oc business pertaining to this cites interests as well as ae to his own and he sought particularly ticul arly to find out the sentiment ot of the people with respect to a municipal telephone system as well as other municipal utilities his investigations resulted in some startling discoveries and the facts gained are the strongest kind of proof in favor of a municipal telephone system one plant that is operating within a city of this state and which Is not owned by the municipality but was financed by citizens residing within the city was ins tall edl nc luding added improvements during the seven years of its life for which is the total cost of the investment to date it has phone connections which are charged for at the rate ot of per month for business phones and per month for residence phones this plant pays 25 per month for one oe young lady operator 20 per mouth month for another and 15 per month for a boy the trouble man has to give but half his time to keeping the line in repair and his salary is per month in addition to these expenses the corporation pays 7 per month for getting its batteries charged 58 per year tor for license to operate a year to its directors per year rear for taxes and per year for extensions tensions ix and repairs to the instruments a total annual expense of 2 and the system is declared to be in better con letlon to today day thit than ii it 4 was shen heri first Es installed during the seven years which the plant lant has been in operation it has made the investors which has been returned to them in the shape of handsome dividends despite the fact that the rental is low and the system is controlled and operated by private local individuals all the patrons are well satisfied with the service and are loyal boosters boasters bo tor for the home telephone company in addition to the regular revenues from the file phones the company has received a certain per cent of all long distance calls and Is having no trouble whatever in getting hitched onto the trans state line of the st states telephone telegraph co in order to accommodate it out ot of town business in the matter of telephone connection the government tor for the past year show that in the united states there are telephone stations of which are owned by private parties or municipalities all of which have long distance connection with the big corporation lines these facts being true who is there that v vill ill say a municipal telephone system would not be a good investment tor for brigham city the big item la in the expense of installing a telephone system Is the poles and wire brigham city already has the poles and the electrical current with which to operate the lines in many other particulars where a private company would be put to expense that would all be eliminated in this cites case because of the facilities already possessed and which can so nicely be utilized for the purpose of op a telephone plant in conjunction with the electric light plant |