Show all company takes over property of utah ii independent the property of the utah dent telephone company was so u d at auction C tion in salt bahe I 1 on monday and the purchaser was 11 vance I 1 ane who the bell telephone company it is understood that the sale means the consolidation of the two concerns it is difficult to say bow long it will take to consolidate the two plants but there is no ques tion but what it will be better for the public to have but one telephone that is unless the bell company gets greedy and tries to laise the ates which seems quite probable at this time the lations of the system should resist in every way possible any effort to increase the rates godava J vance and A S peters general plant superintendent and chief eng neer respectively f the bell telephone company and NA r ramsey chief of construction for the independent company are in eureka itis it is generally geier ge levally ally understood that their visit here is the nary step toward fouard the cons li dation of the t two 0 exchanges in this city cit and there are reasons to believe that n na 6 time will be lost in doing a a mith ith one of the phones it ti itie ahe in dependent domce conta ng ampler eq ulment for the entire tintic gintic ast dst D st net riet and as the plant is tf ti ij 13 in dern the bell phones will no doubt be cut over to this exchange |