The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-14
Long Fight for Telephone Con nections
in the County Seems to be
Nearly Over.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE HAS SIGNED.
Officials of the Pleasant Prairie Company
Sign Contract to Connect with the
Wisconsin Telephone Company.

The Pleasant Prairie Telephone COM
pany has broken the long standing
deadlock in the fight between the tele-
phone companies of the city for the
rural connections, and this morning
the President and Sect'y Of the Pleas
ant Prairie company signed contract
with the Wisconsin company by which
the lines OF the two companies will be
connected for the next five years. The
break OF the Pleasant Prairie company
to the Bell system will probably have
the effect of drawing all companies in
the county under the protecting wing
of the Wisconsin Telephone company.
The Wisconsin company is seeking
simply the toll business of the compan-
les and the company by its contracts
will not enter the field in the county to
compete for local business.
The contract given the Pleasant
Prairie Company by the Wisconsin
company is one that was entirely salts
factory to all the officers of the Pleas
ant Prairie company. The terms have
not been made public and it is under.
stood that they are being held
back pending the arrangements with
| the other companies. One of the offic-
ials of the Pleasant Prairie Company,
IN speaking of the contract, this morn
ing stated "The contract gives the
Pleasant Prairie Company all that Il
has asked for. The Wisconsin Com
pany will change the Instruments in
the houses free of charge, every man
on the Pleasant Prairie line and the
lines connected with.it will have free
toll to the City of Kenosha. Users of
Wisconsin Telephone Company phones
in Kenosha will have the right to tele.
phone to Pleasant Prairie for toll of
ten cents. The life of the contract has
been placed at five years and it can be
renewed If it is found that the associa-
ton of the two lines is mutually agree
| able. Added to these benefits our COM
pany will also have the right to place
our wires on the poles set up by the
Wisconsin Company without charge
and this will make it possible for us to
rebuild our lines from Pleasant Prairie
10 kenosha almost without cost. The
contract which the Wisconsin Com.
pany offered us was just what we
wanted and we decided to join with
them regardless to the action of the
other rural companies of the county.
Of course we hope that the Bristol
Company and the Kenosha Company
will see fit to follow the lead we have
taken, and believe that the Wisconsin
Company will make these companies
just as favorable an offer as they have
| made to u.s.
There will be no delay on the part of
the Wisconsin Company in carrying
out their victory over their rivals and
the new instruments for the Pleasant
Prairie line will be shipped at once
and it is possible that they will be in
stalled within a fortnight. The COM
pany is planning to put the best posi-
BILE instruments into service in Pleas.
ant Pr irie and the country people
will be given the very same service
that is now being furnished the people
OF the city who are on the Wisconsin
lines.
The managers of the Wisconsin COM
pany have now made break into the
rural lines and they are planning to
follow up their advantage by forcing
the fight in Bristol. The FIVE year
contract is new wrinkle in the fight
and i is thought that the long time
mentioned in the contract will go a
long way toward bringing about
union.
By the terms of the contract with.
the Wisconsin Company the Pleasant
Prairie company has practically al
ready brought the other two compatl-
les under the sway of the Wisconsin,.
| BY the terms the Pleasant Prairie
Company has the right to demand free
toll for all the lines connected with
that company and both the Bristol
and Kenosha lines are already con-
uected.