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Show PHONE USERS HEAR PROPOSAL Plans for Independent Company Detailed at Mass Meeting SALT LAKE. Aug. G Telephone, subscribers of Murray. Mldvale and Holllday. who met in mass meeting Friday night to protest the advanced rates fixed by the Utah stnte public' utilities commisslnn, were presented with plans for the establishment of ;i n Independent telephone company W D Livingstone who spoke on tho feasibility of the plan .cited the Instance In-stance of the exchange established at Mantl .Mr. Livingstone said that the telephone tele-phone service at Mantl was organlz d as an independent company and aft'-r! three yea-8 paid from 12 to 16 per! cent on the capital Invested with usual rates for subscribers The tele-phone tele-phone company comprised about .'so subscribers and covered an area of about four square mllei IT.- did hoi t,-i ' the rates charged for service. J W. Meilenry presided at the meeting and spoke of tne necessity 1 for tho rcsldentu of Salt Lake county a if AC ted by the now rates to "o-hrr. i y. Moffat spoke on the recent decision of tho utilities j commission. He advocated either in I creasing the power of the utilities I commission or dispensing with Its I r . Icei .'iltogeth r O. J. Hyde, commercial manripfr, of the telephone company spoke on the necessity for the new rates oo |