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Show ILL TAKES. TIE HOME TELEPHONE Farmlngton. Maroh 9. Receiver Thomas H. Phillips of the Homo Tele-phono Tele-phono & Electric company of the Davis County sold the telephone property prop-erty and franchises' of tho company to A. G. MackenzleLJof Salt Iako today. to-day. Bids for tho property were Invited In-vited in advertisements published re-centlv re-centlv and Mr Mackenzie's bid of $30,0W was accepted, Bubject to confirmation con-firmation by tho district court Mr. Mackenzie represents tho Mountain SLitos Telophono and Telegraph Tele-graph company, to which he will transfer the propertv It Is tho plan of tho Mountain States company to consolidate the plant of the Homo company with tho Bell plant in Davis county In a few weeks The local company will retain tho light and power plant, todaj's deal covorlng only the telephone end of the company's buslnoss. The negotiations nego-tiations resulting in toda's sale havo beon In progress for some time between be-tween a committee headed by Jesse M Smith of Layton and representatives representa-tives of the Bell companj. Tho Homo company was organized about three years ago. It has been financially unprofitable, although It securod a large share of the local business, and it went into a receivership receiver-ship about a year ago. A schedule of rates has been agreed on by tho Boll company and representatives represen-tatives of the Davis county people The rates will bo higher than thoso charged by the Home company and sllghtlv lower than thoBO heretofore charged by the Bell company Almost all the natrons of tho Home company have signed for serv Ice with the Mountain States company. on |