Show 1 Sale of equipment is Considered by utilities During the early part of the week a survey was conducted of all dial telephone customers of Mountain States Telephone In the Myton area to get their attitudes relating to a proposed sale of lines and equipment by the present owners Seeking to purchase the holdings from Mountain States is the Uintah Basin Telephone Co of According to Axel manager in Roosevelt and Tal Wardle a questionnaire had been prepared jointly by the two companies and was circulated to customers of Mountain States asking them to help make a decision whether to sell or At present Mountain States owns all the dial central office equipment and lines to service 01 customers in the city limits of Myton and The Uintah Basin leases dial central office equipment and owns lines to furnish service to 55 customers in the rural areas surrounding All customers of both companies have toll-free service privileges from Myton to Roosevelt and Fort believes it would be advantageous for them to own and operate the entire Myton telephone We approached the regarding the purchase of all Myton telephone facilities has agreed to consider the sale of these facilities if this transaction meets the approval of its Wardle said The proposal of the included four points as 1 Toll-free calling to Roosevelt and Ft Duchesne would be continued 2 Toll-free calling to the Arcadie-Bridgeland areas IB proposed Existing rates would not be increased at this time as a result of this Present customers would not be required to pay membership An announcement regarding the proposal will probably be made following the survey and the two company officials have had another chance to |