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Show , . 0 n : President E. B Field of tho Moun-tain Moun-tain States Telephone & Telegraph company reached Ogden from Salt Lako City in the private car "Iolan-tho" "Iolan-tho" yesterday afternoon and remained re-mained In tho city until early this morning, when tho car was taken north. Today will be passed at Logan and Pocatello. Mr. Field is making a tour of the western division of the company and the trip will Include Utah, Idaho, Montana, Mon-tana, Wyoming and parts of Colorado, "My trip is one of inspection," says Mr. Field. "I want to meet tho employes em-ployes of tho formor Rockj Mountain Bell Telephone company and to familiarize fa-miliarize myself Tilth the physical plant, so that 1 may pass intelligently upon tho propositions that are putup to me for the telephone development of the four states added to my jurisdiction. juris-diction. It is my policy so to develop our telephone system that It shall bo a necessary adjunct to every business and social enterprise To do this will require the investment of a great deal of capita.!, and to interest new capital we must pay a reasonable return for its use. And slnco tho service we furnish fur-nish Is so much a part of the everyday every-day lift of our patrons, I havo found that we secure a more intelligent understanding un-derstanding of our corporate management manage-ment by interesting with us financially our custoraors and patrous rather than outside investors. "I attribute the success of tho Colo rado Telephone company in the past (of which company T have been tho active head for many years) to the fact that wo had over 2,000 local stockholders. stock-holders. These stockholders aro now Interested In the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company in tho same way, and they are Interested iunv no iiimij iii oca umu uuuiiiiuiu m cllitics aro provided and good service rendered as they arc that fair dividends divi-dends be paid. "As a matter of fact, dlvidon-ls and service go hand in hand So long as an individual or a firm or a corporation corpora-tion find difficulty In paying reasonable reason-able Interest upon their investment, just so Is the natural tendency to skimp the service so as to produce, reasonable interest, but when tho individual in-dividual or firm or corporation feels assured of a fair profit, this tendoucv to skimp vanishes and we find in Its place a pardonable pride in furnishing a high class product And so I feel very much encouraged for the telephone tele-phone future of this great mountain states district We havo a magnificent territory to serve and we havo a strong nucleus of home Invostors anj a management composed of western men who understand western needs As In tho past, the policy will not bo to build up or servo any one city or community at the expense of othors, but to connect them adequately, to maltc them ono great community, tho union that is strength It will be our aim not merely to meet tho needs of this region but to anticipate them and to provide In advanco for the growth and prosperity that aro surely coming." Mr. Field has been prominently Identified with American Telephone & Telegraph interests for many years, and was ono of tho early pioneers in the telephone business In rocont years he has dovoted his energies chiefly to tho financial end of tho business Tho Field party Includes, besides Mr. Field, Mrs. Field and their daughter; daugh-ter; Philip Hamlin, assistant to tho president; E. M. Burgess, general manager, and Mrs. Burgess; A. T. Wright, J. E. Mac-donald, Mac-donald, secretary of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company, com-pany, all of Denver, and C. G Seelye. division general manager of the company com-pany at Salt Lake. -Local officers of the company met the party hero and escorted them about the city In automobiles The Ogden offices and other points were visited in the afternoon and fn the evening the members of the party and Judge A. R. Hcywood were guests of John Pingree at dinner at the Weber club. Mr. Fipld lias visited here before as he was a director of tho Rocky Mountain BcllTelephone company for several years prior to tho organization of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company The trip, however, how-ever, will be (he first time he has visited the territory as a whole He and all the members of tho partv ox press themsolvos as much pleased and Impressed by the attractiveness and resources of Ogden and tho surrounding surround-ing country. oo- Harsh physics react, weaken the bowels, cause chronic constipation. Doan's Regulcts operate easily, tone the stomach, cure constipation. 25c. Ask your druggist for them. on |