Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-05-21
MANY CHANGES IN
LONG DISTANCE
TOLL RATES
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM BELL co, OFFICIAL
President Field in Lengthy
Communication Explains Re-
cent REIMBURSEMENT of the
Tariffs.

The new method Of figuring tol
rates by the Colorado Telephone com
pany which has been the subject of
great many queries by the genera
public has brought forth a letter o
explanation, ana also an exhaustive
treatise on the whole rate matter from
r. - Field. president Of the Colo
! RADIO company at Denver, which viii
be OF considerable interest TO the pub
lie. Tho letter follows in fun.
Executive Office, Denver, Colo May
20, 1909.
To our patrons.
From time 10 time IT becomes ne
essary to make certain important
hangcs In the methods Of conducting
the long distance telephone business
V this company. The many RAPIDLY
developing communities which here
'ofore have pech without telephone
communication with the surrounding
'ountry. aud the numerous steadily
growing villages and towns, frequent
ly require extensions to our system,
and often additional facilities ON al
ready existing routes.
Il has been the comprehensive poi
Icy of this company to extend It's long
distance lines t. ali parts of the state
whore tho people needed telephone
service and to add now lines where
the amount OF business done made
slch lines necessary In order to fur
nish efficient and prompt service.
You know the wonderful and steady
advance made in our state in agri'
culture. horticulture, mining, stock
raising and the many other enterpris.
es in which our people are engaged.
We have had to meet this growth by
providing adequate telephone facili-
Ties everywhere. our system ha
crown piece by piece following the
settling up and development of the
Of Colorado and the territory OF
New Mexico
what has been accomplished 81
partly shown by the following data
1893. 1898
40. of telephones IN Col
orado and Now Mex
leo ........,,. 6,J94 1O,54t
No 90 miles Of long dis
lance lines ip Colorado
ANA NEW AitAlAB Af Hs t-f~NN >
OF recent date we have connected
our Colorado and New Mexico sys-
with all Of the important points
in the east ana south We are thus
able TO reach through our comprc-
hensiYe Ben system. over ~thirty-hve
1000, 000 telephones and S5,-
100000 people
10 cover a mountainous state like
ours. which is very sparsely settled,
with "a long distance telephone sys-
tenn. has been n very serious financial
problem, and still continues to be so
provide for all such extensions by
he sale OF our treasury stock TO our
people, and in order that such in
sestment mas be encouraged GU
problem has been, first, TO reach every
,art OF the territory and furnish
lrst class service. and second, TO 50
That the long distance systeia
IS a whole viii yield a fair profit.
We are now facing the situation OF
covered our territory with a
ong distance system constructed
piccc BY piece, connecting together
only an parts of the state II ter
itorS. but with the population Of the
asst. which conditions have Obliged
Is 10 make a new exhaustive study of
.ur long distance rates as a whole.
This study was undertaken:
First. TO enable us TO conform 70
nd maintain q uniform method
throughout the system, and
Second. because the business IN our
company has SO developed. and
lethods of handling and routing 1t
nve So changed, particularly with the
rejection OF new lines, that q
rough study of the toll rates IL
eneral has seemed to me imperative
For a year or more, experts from
ne east, assisted by our engineers,
ave made a complete study Of the
ate problem. The purpose OF this
Is 10 make known to you then
onclusions upon this subject.
These are. In part. that an entire
"a siustmont of toll tariffs Is ahso-
rtely necessary in this territory in or
or 10 eliminate all discrimination IN
ties TO the public. 9
II IL obvious that n town 10 miles
stan, in one direction. and another !
the same distance away IN an !
oposite direction. each taking an en- !
RELY different rate to the sumo point !
question. Is discriminatory and un- !
,asonablc. T,
| shall give some little detail of the q
scheme of quoting rates, AMI :