| Show III P CITY GITY AND PHONE HONE t COMPANIES AT WAR YAR c Dispute Arises lis Over vcr Payment of License for Operating Systems t IT MEANS ABOUT Bell Should Pay andi and i Independent at Least I The Tho city a administration Is 15 g about to tobe tobe tos s be plunged c Into warfare with tho the two t telephone ne companies now HOW doing business bustIn bust busi ness in Sa Salt Sail Lake e over O tile the pa payment bURl I of ofa ofa a license for the Ue operation of ot their systems Tho The In Independent eJ en Telephone company com corn pany has made no open pro lost al althou although ml- ml thou though h the assessment levied led hy by the tile ca city license department has not yet ct I been met The Tile Rocky Mountain Bell Dell DellI I Telephone company compan is setting setting- up a light fight a against the tiie payment of or the J license o. The rhe or ordinance provides plo that thal tho telephone tel tel- S ephone companies t hall JO pay par 5 CO GO cents a 1 year for Cor telephones upon which a 1 If minimum rate of ot rental is hi char charged cd and SI 8 a year car for fOl telephones upon upon f which the maximum I lit Is charged r fut Mut Ia Pay FU FHI Tees Fcc This would mean that the Bell Dell Telf Tel f company compan must muil pay at J lea Ica an I 1 GOO to the city dU and from the Inder Indo Inde- k r t pendent Jen it Is thought that nt at lens least i. i 4 I would ha e to be pal paid The i license In both hoth cases la Jg levied under the same pru l provision pro ion of the tile law as the mei merchants merchants' chants chants' license licence j 1 0 The Independent ent Telephone com com- I v pan pany has lias a v w ith the tile eft city and J l. l j t pays Jays 1 per cent to the elt city upon Its ls ft I gro gross earnings each cach year The Doll Boll company has has- has no no franchise and pays no nos s such bonus to the eft city Hence the tile i Dell Bell company compan operates hero at practically I no financial benefit b to the tile city The If license of the elt ens eo co city J council has Jn instructed Samuel I. I Go God God- V man maii deputy license Assessor to collect I tho the money from rom tho the telephone companies compa compa- T nies It develops along that line hue that the tIle companies In us the tue vast past past have paid nothing General Manager Murray of or orthe the Bell company was as ached ed to appear before the tile committee con an and he lie promised prom prom- to do so so but later he did not show up an and his company an and the In Independent Inde cp c- c p pendent nt hare havo left tho matter in abeyance abeyance abey abey- ance until the present time when it appears that action will be taken |
