Show UTAH UT AU INDEPENDENT IS REPORTED SOLD SOLE Bell Bel Company Said to Have Purchased Local and Rochester Rochester Rochester Roch Roch- ester Plants Boston Boiton Feb 20 The 20 The Bell Bel Tele Telephone I cle phone company compaU has begun absorbing the tho Independent companies which hai-e hai sprung up pp throughout throughput the tho coun couri- ae JP try Only yesterday e te 11 a It It came caine al e out ut that uit the Rochester N. N Y V company had been absorbed and to today ay it I la ls s announced an an- th that t the Utah Independent com company pan has been purchased The he policy poley of absorption is ls to be lie pursued It H Is IN understood wherever hele cI the game Is f woith while I the big biG concerns concern's concerns concern's con con- full to overflow overblow- being cerns cern's heas treasury ry Cul are arc not giren gir- gir given given ing ng Terms of ot purchase o en out and ma may only be learned from the Limo annual report The Tho company compan controls overal hun hundred red miles of lines Jnes In Utahn Utah In n I addition a dlton to to Ha its i lines Ih It in 11 Central C New Ne' e STork ork and western Pennsylvania The he purchase o price is a sid said to be 1000 A dispatch dl patch from flom Allentown Pa says bays tho the International Telephone as association association as- as o of America the rival of the tho 45 1 ho hoBell Bell monopoly Is the lie real purchaser of or the Rochester Coin company pany |