Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-03-16

lOTt tIlt next meeting. The general
opinion of all present that the sup.
plying and settiug OF poles and the
strinsing of the wire would bs con.
tributed work by the members of the
company. Rev. Badger then read a
copy Of constitution that had been
prepared and with few changes it
was adopted. The adoption of by-
laws and regulations was left to q
future time when the plan of business
was more fully completed.
After a. general discussion of the
various phases Of the undertaking the
meeting adjourned to meet on Tues.
day, March 20, at 2 80 p. m. sharp.
During this week Mr.. Oium has re-.
ceived the proposition that Mr..
Thatcher, superintendent Of the
Pacific States Telephone g. Telegraph
Company has authorized him to make
to the Applegste Valley Telephone
Company and he will present them at
the meeting at Provolt next Tuesday
afternoon. This agreement is that
the Pacific States Company will give
free switching to the Applegate
Valley Telephone Co. on the Grants
Pass system and to all other rural
lines on the payment of $2 80 per
month by the Applegate Company,
this to cover the switch charge on all
the telephones coptro led bv the Ap-
plegate Company lease rent free for
one or longer years its line from
Grants Pass to Williams to the Apple
gate Company, the latter to keep the
line in repair and return 1t in ss good
condition as when taken; rent to the
Applegate Company frst-class Bell
telephones at 90 cents per month, pay.
ments to be made in advance for six
month periods and not less than 80
telephones in the first order, the
Pacific States Company to keep the
telephones in order to furnish the
Applegate Company with switch
boards, telephone supplies at cost, and
to allow the Applegate Company all
the territory south of Rogue river
and up the Applegate to its head and
that 1t may make direct connection
with any other independent line.
Mr.. Oium stated his company used
porcelain insulators on its Crescent
City line and GU many other lines and
that they gave good service aud did
not cost one-eightll as much as glass
insu lators and the brackets. The
switch boards would cost 50 80 per
jack. A jack is required for each
branch line and one is required for
the operator Telephone companies
get their smaller central Office cared
for free of cost by giving the operator
use OF the lines without charge, but
small salary would have to be paid at
the larger offices. Extension balls to
allow two families to use the same
telephone would cost SO each
1t Is the plan OF the Courier man.
agement to continue this Telephone
movement until every section OF
Josephine county is connected with
Grants Pass and there is free switch.
ing for every telephone IN the county
between the various local lines aud
also with Grants Pass. SO general is
the interest in this telephone move.
ment that it is quite certain that by
the close of g present year Grants
Pass business man can talk. without
putting up two bits, with his miner
and farmer customers and friends in
every part of the county. The growth !
OF these cooperative lines has been
most remarkable since the Jater t.
expired on the original Bell telephone.
The Review of Reviews, one of the |
most reliable of magazines. in its
Match member states that in the last
10 years since ths field has b, EN- OPT n
to independent telephone manufsc-
turers that they have turned out more
Instruments than has the Bell Com
pany in its % years Of existence. In
the figure given in tie article. up to
last August there wire ., 600, 600 Bell
telephones in use and 3, 400. 600 indie
pendent telephones in use. Over 20
per cent ot the post1iiices and small
towns of TIE Unit. d States are covered
o' the indelend, Mt tel -Ihone lines
'nd now they are invading the cities
md many of the big cities now have
nderendeut systems.
IN this telephone ext n,ion in Jose.
ph'ne countS the Courmr favors
ioint service b tween the indele dent
mes and the Pacific States Com.
'any il motuallv IA factory rms
nj be- had. The LIT e. co rany now
las u comph t. sysrm in rants Pass
ana II fre sw'tcl.iugi can be hsd ovtr
{ ard TIE ind pendent ll.es it will
'dd to the value of thu service to the
ns'rons Of both The city and the rural
ines