Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-07

Dr.. Norvin Green made the sub
Joined statement TO q reporter last
week ~ regard to the underground
wife law:
| am not lawyer, but the bill seems
To be defective III not having "a repeal
ing clause. Unrepealei, the statutes
giving Us power 10 build telegraph
lines age stiil ~ good ia law as the one
Just signed compelling us to nut the
wires underground. No, / cau-
not say that this company VIII.
or VIII not oppose the law. We have
not contested lt in committee or any o.
where else. There are other comma
nies which have greater reasous tc
oppose it, for we only own - 600 "a
2b,OjO miles OF wires ON poles IN The
city, while the telephone companies
nave probably 60 900 NILES. The West
ern Union haS already placed under
ground It's truck lines from the general
Office south and west. 10 the exchanges
Aud on the north the wires are ready
TO he placed IN underground tubes IS
far rs pweuty-lhird street w,
nave decided 10 extend his line to
furty'second street aEd the Grand
Cen'rAi depot. Long before the end Of
Ine period named IN the bill All our
trunk lines ia this city will PROBABLY,
oe underground. IL is hardly pYob.-
Die, however that the city would en-
l1iee Inc law. No penalty for disre-
sAfiing II has been provided Paris
ana London have large underground
systems, oGt IN addition perfect net
works OF overhead wires | do not
think that New York will remove an
us pole wires The people will insist
upon having conveaiences which
thry now enjoy. This cons
pany, for instance, hns II7
branch offices in the city, but
II this law should be enforced. more
IMAM hail of them would be closed All
once. Should we run wires under
ground To a remote office which now
~ Kept open merely for public conyen.
ience? But the effect of lac law " ould
be still greater on telephone and dIy-
trict messenger companies. The service
would be restricted so that it would lie
almost useless. H. the business narts
81 the city, where the receipts are iare.
ana the distances short, the
companies might put their wires
underground, but they could
not possibly afford TO do SO in other
sections OF the city. IL would not take
long 10 convince the people of The In.
convenience caused by The law. / am
quite sure that the opposition comma.
hes would snfier much more than We
should IL the law should be enforced
III would not cost us much more IN
carry all our trunk lines out of the
city under ground, but our opponents
wou have 10 begin at the BEGINNING
mat reminds me that some persons SAY
that We are not making money. Do
you realize that when we have Maid th..
dividend fcrthls quarter we shall have
paid nut -iiice January |, 1881. exactly
slS,000,000 in dividends? In The sam.
three and a half years we have added
TO the plant s.. 900. which makes a
total OF SeS, 200 600, We have sold in
that time 81 600. 0O0bonds, for which VS.
received about 81 100. 600, and a few
other things amounting perhans To
$4,000. All the rest of these nav
iaents have been from earnings for
we have no floating debt of any kind
Aud still there are persons who saw
we are not earning money. Where do
We get il?
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