Cañon City record., 1907-12-19
NEW SYSTEM OF BOOKKEEPING
TO BE INSTALLED

Manager Campbell of the local tele-
phone exchange, who is always alert
to the interests of both the Company
and its patrons, is arranging to make
a number of changes and improve
nents in the administration of the
business here the first of the year that
will be appreciated by the public. Per-
haps the most important of these ino-
vations Will be the installation of
new system of bookkeeping, the adop-
ton of which will carry with it several
matters of concern to the companys
subscribers.
The-card system of keeping accounts
will be abandoned as not suited to the
pecularities of the telephone business
and the open leaf ledger plan substi-
tuted. The proposed system was in
augerated in Denver the first of July
and has been found to work admirably.
meeting all of the exigencies of the
situation, in some of which the old
plan failed.
Under the new system of bookkeep-
ing bills will be rendered for toll SER
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of on the following day as has been
heretofore been the case. The co-opera-
ton of subscribers is solicited in max
ing the trasfer from the old to the new
systems, particularly in the payment
OF accounts, as such help will enable
Mr.. Campbell to start out under less
complex conditions than would other
wise be the case.
A new rule in relation to the use of
the toll lines will also be adopted, the
object of which it to simplify the mat
ter of collections and to avoid the
trouble the company has previously
had upon the question of responsible
ity. Hereafter the telephone subscrib-
er who permits an outsider to use his
instrument for long distance talking
will be required to guarantee the pay
ment for such conversation In the past
a far less drastic regulation has exist
ed and has been but indifferently lived
up to.
The business of the local exchange
has increased to such an extent of late
that it has been necessary to give en-
ployment to another girl in the oper-
ating room, making a total of nine
there now, against six year ago.
At present there is an average of be-
tween seven and eight thousand calls
a day at the local exchange ana the
number is growing every month. The
amount of business done over the toll
lines is also expanding and there are
now something like ninety outgoing,
long distance. messages every twenty
four hours The incoming messages
are slightly in excess Of a hundred
day Fifty per cent of the long dist
ance telephone business of Canon City
is done with Pueblo. the major part OF
the rest going to Denver and Colorado
Springs.
Recently the local exchange had a
couple of patrons who desired the use
of the wire for a conversation with
Salt Lake City, the tariff on which
was something like five dollars for
three minutes. AS Salt Lake City can
only be reached from here via Denver
and Cheyenne the distance to the Nor
mon metropolis is approximately sew
en- hundred miles. which is nearly the
limit of present day telephoning. Mr..
Campbell remarked to the writer this
morning that great advances are being
made in every field of electrical sci
ence and he gave as his opinion that
within the next eighteen months or
two years at most the user of the tel
ephone in Canon City could talk to
New York City or San Francisco as
easily as he now does to Colorado
Springs or Denver.