Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-23
BELL TELEPHONE
COMPANY SELLS
NEVADA CONSOLIDATED PUIs-
CHASES RIGHTS, PLANT
AND EQUIPMENT.

Yesterday the Nevada CONSOLIDATE
ed Telephone and Telegraph com
pany purchased all the rights, plant
and equipment of the Pacific Tele-
phone company in this city and i'm
mediately assumed possession. The
basis of the transaction was not an
nounced, but it is reported it runs
into nice figures.
The e deal means that Carson
City will be rid effectualIy Of thel
Bell telephone system and that here
after it will be served by a company
composed of local men and Nevad-
ans. The Nevada Consolidated Sc.
cured a franchise several months ago
from the city trustees to erect and
install a system in Carson City and
the Bell people, realizing the result
if they entered into competition,
promptly opened negotiations for o
sale of their plant and the deal yes
terday was the result.
One of the first announcements
made by the company when it first
secured possession of the Bell plant
and also the franchise it held, was to
the effect that it would not avail it,
sci of the lax franchise held by the
Bell but would proceed under the
franchise granted to the C~onsolidat-
ed. This means that within q short
time the party lines will be reduced
from eight and ten on a line to four
on each line and also that the city
will receive 2 per cent of the gross
receipts of the company at this point.
President j. f. Adams of the COM
pany, Judge Sweeney, one of the dl.
rectors, and the heaviest stockhold-
ers verified the report last evening
and both appeared considerably elat-
ed over the deal. The transaction
not only mean the elimination OF
competition to the new company but
it means the acquiring of an estab-
lished business and a line which with
money and labor can be developed
into a good one The present mana
ger of the company, Mr.. Heidenreich
will be retained for the present.
When interviewed by a News re.
porter Judge Sweeney said: Yes
our company assumed control of the
old plant of the Pacific company to
day, having purchased the entire
plant outright. Immediately after
the granting of the franchise recently
TO M company by the city trustees
we began negotiating for the install
lation of an entire new telephone
plant to compete with the Pacifi,
States, when we were approached bl
the company with a proposition L
buy them out, which we did, believ
e ing il to be the best interest of Gu.
Q company as well as to the citizens o
( Carson City.
The system will be made a prae
tically new Il and we believe tn,
. people Of Carson City will shortl.
/ note wonderful improvement in TIL,
e earvice We will give them.
The rates viii not be raised, bu
a Carson City will have an up-to-dat
q telephone service.
Since we secured the franehis
e for Carson City II company has ais
bought outright the Alpine Tele
IS phone company with lines extendin
through Douglas, Alpine and Mon
counties, and many important deal
J. are nov pending which when consu
mated will make the Nevada Cor
= solidated Telephone company one G
the strongest companies on the coas'
THE installation of new appai
atus, improvements and changes wi
be under the personal supervision {
Mr.. Adams, who is one of the be.
informed and competent ~telephon
+ men on the coast