Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-16 | Page 4 | No Increase in Telephone Rates

H NO INCREASE IN TELEPHONE RATES. MM The Herald-Rcpuhlican of Salt Lake, with becoming modesty, H takes all credit for the new conditions in the telephone service in W Utah. MM Telephony, a Chjcago paper, quoted extensively from the Stand- MM ard, on the telephone situation in this state, at a time when the Salt H Lake paper was as silent on the subject as the dead. 1 A banker of Salt Lake, recalling the Standard's articles, gave MW credit only yesterday to this paper for the coming elimination of MM the double tax on telephones. MM This paper was the first to protest against the double charge MW i and to resist the proposed increase of rates which has been recalled MM in the following announcement by H, Vance Lane, president of the H Rocky Mountain Bell company. H ''Notwithstanding the many rumors and speculation as to the H readjustment of telephone rates due to the recent purchase of the Hli ', property of the Utah Independent Telephone company by the Rocky 1 Mountain Bell Telephone company, the latter's rate schedule will MM f not be increased. M "Necessarily some little time wiU be required to arrive at a m basis which will be fair alike to both the public and the telephone m company, but tho engineers have proceeded sufficiently to warrant m a definite statement that no raise in the rate schedule will be re- M quired. Further particulars will be given at the earliest possible w date. ' H i . .