Bisbee daily review., 1905-04-28
CHA VALLEY LINE IS TAKEN OVER INTO CONSOLE
 DAYTON.
BIGTERRITORAL SYSTEM
Beginning of System That Will Give eisbee Connection Over Long Dis tance Telephone With Phoenix and Prescott
CArizona Bulletin.)


 In another column of The Bulletin will be found a notice of mee.:ng of the stockholders of the Gila Valley Telephone Co. to be held April 27th for the purpose of considering the proposition of the Consolidated Tele- phone, Telegraph and Electric Com pany to purchase the property and franchises of the Gila Valley Tele- phone Company.
 Although this is the way the legal notice reads, in fact the purchase has already been made and the meeting next Thursday will merely be to car " out the legal letter of the transac- tion.
 Since last fall Mir. Chas. Solomon has been working on the proposition with Col. Epes Randolph of the pur- chasing company. The local line has grown from a few miles of wire and a few dozen posts reaching from Solomonville to Stafford until it now covers the two counties of Graham and Gila, with about 300 miles of wire. Business has grown sa rapid ly that it has become too big propo' sition for the local men to handle, hence the sale to the larger ana heavier financed corporation.
 The stockholders Of the Gila Val ley Telephone Company will become stockholders in the Consolidated Tele- phone, Telegraph and Electric Com pany to the value of their stock. This company virtually has the entire field in Arizona at present and IS conun- ually building and extending it's lines in all directions, and absorbing other independent companies.
 In Arizona the Sunset people have but a small foothold in the northwest ern portion of the Territory, while practically the entire south and cen tral sections are covered by the inde- pendents.
 This telephone deal will mean a great deal to Graham County. for it will place us on long distance line now connecting nearly every large city in the Territory, and which at no far distant date will extend to Los Angeles on the West and Denver on the East In fact it is reported that Q Denver company is building west at this writing to meet with an east ern extension of the Consolidated While on the west an independent company of Redlands, California; 2 capitalists. is building east to connect with the Consolidated at Yuma.
 Last February the line was com pleted from Globe to within about four miles of Phoenix. Since that date the line has been completed into the city, but floods have kept the line out of repair between this place and Globe. As soon as, repairs are completed this side of Globe, our peo- ple will be able to talk with the capital.
 It will not be many months until SoIomonville merchants will be able to phone their orders direct 70 the wholesale houses of Los Angeles.
 The announcement was made Tn the Review several weeks ago that the consolidation of the telephone lines of the Territory was among the early possibilities. The transfer of the Giia Valley line is the first step m this direction. The Hams line from Tomb stone to Benson is to be connected with Tucson in the very near future and Bisbee will then have through tejephone connection with the princl- nal towns of the Territory and later with Los Angeles and San Francisco