Show MESSAGES OF congratulation KEEP THE wired HOT cache valley metropolis makes the event an occasion of public rejoicing f from thursdays standard general manager D B mackintosh of the utah independent telephone company la in ogden inspecting the local branch and testing the line bif tween here and logan connections were made with the college town late yesterday and for past 24 hours the line has been kept busy carrying massages of congratulation from the citizens of bogan to ogden and salt lake the opening of the exchange at logan was made n public demonstration by and people from the valley settlements the college brass band turned out and the new exchange building was formally opened with music and a public ovation logan is the farther est north the independent line has gone poles wires and men have been sent to carry the line into preston and ithen the idaho town Is wired pocatello will be invaded this is the beginning of a movement by the utah company to extend the line into idaho wyoming and montana the work of stringing wires will go on steadily until the proposed field Is covered the reporter talked the head of construction of the independent company at logan anu found the conversation from logan remarkably clear no hum on the wires was heard this condition Is due to perfect insulation and graded poles manager mackintosh Is very enthusiastic thusia over the future of his company he stated that a company under the name of the united states independent telephone company had been recently organized under the laws oe new jersey with capital the company was formed to absorb the independent telephone companies in the united states of these companies the one in utah Is the largest in territory covered the absorption of the phone companies will mean a huge trust that will aid the independents over the entire country in their fight for existence this will precipitate a sharp competition between he two rival companies for mastery |