The Glenwood post., 1907-03-23
JUST A LITTLE
TELEPHONE TALK
Representative of Colorado Com
pdRY Discusses Situation

The Post has heretofore referred to
the cutting of the wires of the Gar,
field County Telephone company and
we know there is some feeling to the
effect that this cutting might have
been instigated by the Colorado Tele-
phone company but this, we are
pleased to say is not the case.
The town council, after very ex
haustive investigation of mutual sys
tens, about three years ago decided
that Glenwood was not large enough
for the operation of two systems and
denied this application of the Garfield
County company to a franchise. This
action, we believe, was due to an
honest conviction On the part of the
town authorities that two telephone
systems would prove a nuisance to
Glenwood people and therefore detr-
mental to the town.
More recently the matter came up
again, and the trustees made careful
VI tIt lDtb anu uluel
users of phones and were informed,
almost without exception. that the
people considered two telephones a
great annoyance with no compensat
ing benefits. Apparently accentu
ating this belief was the fact that if
the people comprising the Garfield
company really wanted to reach Glen
wood by phone they could easily do
so and that too without expense by
connecting their trunk line from New
Castle with the Glenwood switch
board of the Colorado Telephone com.
pany, this company having agreed to
do the switching for the local com
pany, without any charge whatever.
This arrangement would obviate the
use Ct two phones by our residents
and all thought 1t would meet every
need.
Early this week Walter f Brown
of Denver, assistant general manager
of the Colorado Telephone company,
visited Glenwood Springs and other
portions of Garfield county and while
here " i'll endeavor to make plain the
attitude of his company in the mat
ter.
When asked about the matter by
the Post man. Mr.. Brown SAID a great
many people had the erroneous i'm
preston that his company was fight
ing all local or mutual Telephone en-
terprises. He says they are not only
not doing so, but in some instances
they are selling out their local county
lines to organizations of farmers,
while in other sections they are max
ing the mutual lines doubly valuable
to their subscribers by giving free
connections with the Colorado lines,
thus giving the mutual subscli ibers
the benefit of increased local talks but
the advantage also of the Colorado's
long distance system.
Mr. Brown says at Lamar practic-
ally the same conditions have existed
for some time but he has succeeded in
etfecting amicable relations with the
mutual company which will in the
future guarantee its subscri bers an in
creased and better service and with
much less expense and annoyance than
would result from the use of two
phones.
He hopes such an arrangement may
be made here as under the present
system the subscribers of both systems
aIe deprived of the full benefits which
would result from an amicable con-
nection such as his company stands
ready to ratity,
Mr.. Brown says if such fair and
equitable arrangement cannot be made
whereby the subscribers of one system
may have all of the advantages of
both systems with no extra cost and
with only one telephone to bother
with he does not want the blame for
the failure pla .ed upon his company
where he knows it does not belong.
The Post is not advised as to what
success Mr.. Brown may have met
with up to this time but if the plan
to get together should fail we think it
can hardly he charged to lack of en-
thusiasm OIL dispositi IN of fairness on
Mr.. Browns part.