The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-14
SOUTHWESTERN TEL EGRAPH
 AND TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Additional Facilities Constantly Beinq Provided; New Territory Be-
 ing Developed.

''S N~hCi~PCds
 The intelligent and legitimate de- velopment of the telephone business is a matter that involves the expendi- ture of-large sums of money. the ex- ercise of good Judgment and a keen insight into the needs of various com munities.
 1t Is quite easy to fail in any or all of these requirements, as can be at tested by the wrecks that mark the path of such enterprises as have been launched with poor judgment and prosecuted with badly matured ideas. 4
 The hard fact remains that to build up great telephone system like a great railIoad system, requires or ganization. capital, persistence of purpose and determination to furnish a public service that shall prove sat isfactory and rendered at a price that is just and fair to the user and will prove a revenue that will warrant the money saver and the capitalist in in- yesting their surplus funds. These considerations have been the constant study of pWdently organized and con. .servatiyely conducted telephone com panies and it is the boast of the Southwestern Telegraph and Tele- graph and Telephone Company that it originally adopted such ideals and has undertaken to develop a territory 3l4,4SS square miles in extent, and. with the assistance of connecting line owners, this has so far been accom-. plished in a manner to win the ap- proval of it's patrons.
 Within the two states above men, toned the Southwestern Company is giving service over more than 10000 miles os wire circuits, mostly copper, an increase of 34 ,600 miles in ten years, rendering is possible for pa- irons to talk almost to any point therein and, in conjunction with the lines with which this company con- meets, to all the important places within from 1000 to 1,20o miles.
 More than 172,G00 stations within iis own territory are reached by the line of the Southwestern Company and it's connections. The number of stations on independent lines connect ed with the lines of the Southwestern Company is 5S,s60, an increase of more than 30,000 in ten years.
 Additional facilities to the existing plant are not only constantly beine made, but the lines are being extend ed into new territory not heretofore reached.
 More than 3.600 miles of new wire. mostly copper, will have been strnug within short time. which will not only provide much needed talluing fa- cilities over present routes, but will give long distance service into Amar- lilo and Stamford over first class lines owned by the Southwestern Company, as well as into other places in that territory not before connected or which have not been adequitely serv- ed. It is the purpose of the company to shortly begin the construction of copper circuits into the Brownsville territory where, it is recognized, there is being promoted a wonderful busi- ness growth almost certain to bring about in that region great prosperity and a large influx of population.
 To make provision for the constant ly increasing telephone requirements of that pant of the southwest compris- ing the states of Texas and Arkansas, the southwestern company is benling every effort and endeavoring to furfill it's obligations to the public in fur nishing a universal and comprehen- sive telephone system adequate to all needs.