Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
TELEPHONE COMPANIES
CONSOLIDATE

week.
<The American Union Telephone
Company was at that meeting brought
into working existence, the company
having been incorporated at Harris
burg on May 81.
The new company links together by
purchase and lease a. number of in
dependent telephone companies of
Pennsylvania, Southern New York,
Northern Virginia. Maryland and, West
Virginia, and by extensions, connec-
tions and betterments, combining these
companies into one complete system
of local and long distance telephone
transmission, which, with traffic
agreement with the Keystone Tele-
phone Company. of Philadelphia, est
ablishes a system that stretches from
the Atlantic coast across New Jersey,
Delaware and the States above men-
toned.
LONG DISTANCE SERVICE.
Being made up largely of many of
the existing independent telephone
companies in the State, the new COM
pany will early prefect long distance
service extending from this city to
Baltimore, Md. ; Washington, d. c.,
and Wheeling, W. Va, in the South ;
Pittsburg, Cleveland and Erie, in the
West, and Buffalo, Rochester and
lao.
As the subsidiary companies have
long term contracts with the compan-
les operating in these important COM
mercial centers, the Philadelphia,
Pittsburg g. Erie Long Distance Tele-
phone Company, which is subsidiary
| company of the American Union Tele-
phone Company, largely controls the
long distance service as we'll as the in
dependent telephone situation in the
most thickly populated section of the
United States.
THE MERGED COMPANIES.
The companies entering the merged
combination comprise
United Telephone & Telegraph
Company operating from the Phila-
delphia County line northwest to the
city of Williamsport, and west to the
city of Altoona, inclusive, embracing
the counties of Chester, Montgomery,
| Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuyl-
kill, Northumberland, Union, Snyder,
Montour, Columbia, Lycoming, Clin-
ton, Center and Blair.
Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
pany extending from the city of Har-
risburg southwest through the Gum
berland Valley to the State line, and
northwest to the borough of Lewis
town, embracing the counties of Dau-
phin, Perry, Mitflin, Juniata, Cumber-
land, Franklin, Adams and York,
Lykens Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany operating exchange centers at
Elizabethville, Lykens, M;llersburg
and Tower City.
Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
pany, of Baltimore City operating in
the States of Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia, embracing the counties
of Washington, Frederick and Carroll,
in the State of Maryland; Frederick
and Clarke. in the State of Virginia !;
Berkeley and Jefferson, in the State of
West Virginia.
Boyds & Damascus Telephone Com
pany; embracing the county of Mont
gomery, Maryland.
Huntingdon & Clearfield Telephone
Company embracing the counties
Center, Clearfield, Cambria and Jeffer-
son.
Cambria Telephone Company; en-
bracing the county of Cambria.
Indiana Telephone Company; en-
bracing the county of Indiana.
Bradford County Telephone Com
pany embracing the county of Brad
ford, Pa.
Port Allegheny Telephone Com
pany; embracing the counties of Nc
Kean and Potter.
Petroleum Telephone Company; em-
bracing the counties of Crawford and
Venango.
Commercial Union Telephone Com
pany; embracing the counties of Elk
and Jefferson.
Union Telephone Company, of Erie,
embracing the counties of Erie, Craw-
ford, Mercer, Newcastle, Venango,
Beaver, Warren, Mexican and Potter,
in the State of Pennsylvania, extend
ing to the city of Olean, inclusive, in
the State of New York. and to the city
of Youngstown, in the State of Ohio.
York State Telephone Company, EN-
bracing principal exchange centers at
Elmira, Binghamton and Owego, in
the State of New York.
Philadelphia, Pittsburg & Erie Tele
phone Company, embracing present
and prosposed long distance lines in
forty three counties in the State of
Pennsylvania, as follows: Blair, Cam
bria, Beaver, Allegheny, Armstrong,
Chester. Clearfield, Clinton, Bradford,
Erie, Huntingdon, Elk, Indiana,
| Mifflin, Crawford, Mercer, Lawrence,
Warren, Tioga, Westmoreland, Lycom-
. ing, Dauphin, Lehigh, Wyoming York,
! Lebanon, Snyder, Union, Columbia,
Juniata, Perry, Berks, Lancaster
| Adams, Northumberland, Chester,
Delaware, Susquehanna. Luzerne,
Schuylkill, Lackawanna. Montgomery
and Cumberland.
The new company has traffic agree
ments and connections providing for
the interchange of long distance mes
sages throughout New York State, west
through Ohio and Indiana, and by the
Cumberland Telephone Company, con-
nection with all the important south