Show IT IS NOW ONE COMPANY following admission by its officers several freeks ago of 0 its insolvency the property of the utah independent Tele telephone company was sold at ati public auction in salt city monday the purchaser being the rocky mountain bell corporation the price was there was practically no competition in the bidding A representative of eastern bondholders bond holders liia va present and ran the price up to the final figure to protect his clients but was not serious in his apparent effort to buy the property in H vance of denver president of the bell company represented that corpor at ion subsequent to the sale mr vance announced the ultimate consolidation soli dation of the two systems and intimated a raise ta in rates when this is accomplished will e ven even dually be done la Is to be inferred Inter redl from the le fact 11 that IL H C valley bailor ma manager of the park city office of the bell company has baa boon boom instructed to make no contracts fork a longer period than thirty days pop for the present the two companies will maintain their separate operating t ng system mr vance announced but the length of the double service con ti nuance he be said ofia impossible impassible to forecast when asked ached in salt lake it if the interstate commerce corn Com mission might not cot intervene to prevent the consolidation on oa grounds that it would bo be in restraint ol of tr trade de mr vance laughed at t the suggestion and pointed out that all of the insolvent corporations property Is in utah and Is quite safe from interstate jurisdiction park city telephone subscribers who have been compelled to adopt the double service in order to ta transact business will welcome the single service and it Is ia not bel belleek bellei leed cd here that tbt the increase in tariffs will not I abu bl near as much as the total of the two bills they have heretofore paid monthly |