Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-10-31
E. A. SHERWIN RESIGNS
Popular Commercial Manager of Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph
Co. in Ashland Will Rest.

Mr.. Z. A. Sherwin, commercial
manager of the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph Company at Ashland,
has rendered the company his Tesig-
nation as manager of the Ashland
exchange, effective December 81,
1912. This is on account of i'll
health, which will in all probability
necessitate his going away for two
or three months to a lower altitude,
and his own personal business inter
ests, which require his immediate
attention.
Mr.. Sherwin states that the COM
pany's business is growing so fast
that he considers, in view of the
above named facts, that the public
will be better served by the appoint
ment of at younger man who can
devote his entire time to the COM
pany's affairs in this territory
w. K. Merrill, special agent of the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, who is here to check up the
office and install the new manager,
says that it is with great regret that
the Pacific company accepts Mr..
Sherwin's resignation and sincerely
wishes that he may be as successful
in the conduct of his own personal
business affairs as he has been in
the past conduct of the Pacific COM
pany's business, and that his health
may. be entirely restored to him.
Mr.. Sherwin has had charge of the
Pacifics Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany's affairs at Ashland continu-
ously for the past fourteen years and
through his untiring efforts he has
developed the telephone business
from plant consisting of about one |
mile of pole line and wire and twen-
ty subscribers, connected with a
small switchboard located in the |
back part of the drug store Mr.. Sher-
win owned at that time, to its pres |
ent plant with modern nine-posi |
ton switchboard requiring nine OPP |
orators to make connections for the !
500 subscribers that are connected
with it. The outside plant necessary
for conducting the successful opera
ton of the Ashland exchange has |
grown from one mile to 105 miles
of pole line, carrying 1876 miles of
open wire and five miles of cable,
$50 miles of wire, and
one-half mile of underground con-
duit, which comprise the Pacific
plant now.
Mr.. Sherwin is to be complimented
for his successful development of the
business in the Ashland
territory. Mr. Sherwin asks the pub
lie to give the new manager, Mr.. w.
w. USHER, the same hearty co-opera-
ton in the conduct of the companys
business in the future that they have
given him in the past Mr.. USHER
will take up the duties of CONNER
cial manager November /, 1912.
Mr. usher is known personally to
many Ashland people and Mr.. Sher-
win believes that he will be untiring
in his efforts to give the public the
best service possible, and as Mr..
USHER has been connected with the |
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany and the Home Telephone Com
pany at Medford for several years,
thereby gaining the necessary exper-
ience in the conducting of the tele-
phone business, there is no doubt as
to his ability to serve the public sat
isfactorily.
Mr.. Sherwin desires at this time
to thank his many friends and &C
quaintances for their past co-opera-
tion with him in the telephone busi-
ness.