Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-03-23

was tnen consluereu OF Incorporating
the Appleeate Valley Telephone Com.
pany. A vote being taken it was de-
cided TO incorporate and Il. Badger,
E. N. Provolt and @. O. Biglow were
chosen as incorporators and Charles
Meserve was authorized to arrange
with an attorney to prepare the
papers and to forward them to the
secretary of state at Salem. 70 show
the interest that the citizens of Grants
Pass have in these rural telephone
companies four of the prominent bust
ness men Of that city accompanied
Mr.. Mese've and Manager Oium to
Provolt These gentlemen were Geo.
r. Riddle, of Hair-Riddle Hardware
Company, Lee Calvert of the Grants
Pass Hardware Company. Roy Will
son of P. H. Harth q Company, and
1T. b. Cornell, lately in the grocery
business. On being called on by
Chairman Badger, each Of them gave
short addresses in which they COM
mended the movement for rural tele.
phones and the especially advantageous
features Of free switching for these
country lines with Grants Pass. On
a motion to that effect Chairman
Badger appointed the following per-
sons committee to secure members.
Henry Kubli. Upper Arplegate; John
Pernoll, Applegste; r. F. Lewman,
E. N. Provolt, Provolt; @. o. Biglow
and Mortord John, Williams; Bert
Sargent and Louis Sturgeon, Upper
Williams; W. S. Bailey and William
York, Missouri Flat; Fred Knox,
Laurel Grove; J. ". Gilmore and ii.
L. Reed. Murphy; G. @. English,
New Hope; Mr.. Clements, Centennial |
district and South Grants Pass; w. l.
Sweetland and Chas. Meserve, Grants
Pass.
The next meeting of the Applegate
Valley Telephone Company will be
held at Provolt on Saturday, March
81 at 2:30 p. IN sharp. 1t will be
necessary for all who wish TO join the
company to be there to sign the stock
book and place their order for tele-
phoue and for wire and insulators.
The wire and insulators will cost
about $S per mile. Porcelain insula.
tors will be used and the wire can be
strung to trees and give az good SER
vice as to poles. No telephones will
be allowed to he connected with the
main line between Grants Pass and
the various central stations, all tele-
phones being connected to the latter
by branch lines The object of this
is to keep the main line clear, other
wise it would be loaded up with 40
to 90 telephones and then no one
could talk over it, A central will be
established at Provolt and branch
lines will be run mp Williams Valley,
up Applegate and Thompson Valleys
and across to Missouri Flat and down
to Laurel Grove district. A central
will be put in at Murphy to accom-
modate the four or five branch lines
that will cover the adjoining territory
aud central will be put in at South
Grants Pass for the residents of that
section and of the Centennial district.
The shares Of stock will be s. each,
but If 100 members are secured, as is
expected, it will not require an assess.
ment of more than 81 a share to pay
for installing the centrals and to meet
the other expenses Of putting the tele.
phone system in working order. The
persons keeping the central stations
will be given free telephones and
those handling a large nu mber OF
lines will be paid a salary. Mr..
Badger has offered to keep the Pro-
volt Office for S15 per month for this
year while the company is getting a
start. No arrangements have yet
been made at Murphy and South
Grants Pass for operators. The cost
of maintaining the central offices and
such other expenses as will be in.
Cured will be met by a telephone
rental charge of probably 25 cents per
month, which with the rent Of 80
cents paid the Pacific States Company
will make the telephones cost 70
cents per month. The rent in Grants
Pass is 3l.25 per month for residence
telephones and $l.50 for office tele-
phones.
The articles of incorporation are
being prepared by Hon. Geo. H.
Durham aud expects to have them
signed up this Saturday when be will
file them with the secretary OF state.
The filing fee and the corporation
tax will be $40 each that being the
charges against interpretations having
a capital Of less than $4,000. Mr..
Durham makes no charges for his legal
services, he contributing his fee,
which would have been not less than
$25, to assist by that much the