The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-12-05
An Open LettertO the
Telephone Using Public

the utilities that bring them in contact
with each other, and that the more
nearly perfect in efficiency and suf-
hciency the utilities serving the public
are, the more prosperity, comforts and
convenlences the public will enjoy.
We believe our story is an interest
ing one, and we hope that everyone
will read it.
Note.-As an instance of the kind
Of startling news which newspapers
sometimes publish, we want to call
attention to recent articles in the
newspapers headed, United States
Government Calls Upon Two Girl Ste
nographers to Tell Where They Got
Two Million Dollars to Form the Cor
poration Securities and Investment
Company" Then the articles went on
to say that this Corporation Securities
and Investment Company was a
scheme of the Telephone Company to
further its purpose of monopolizing
telephone companies, etc.
The truth is that our company has
been met with a strong feeling in the
State of Montana-well-nigh univer-
sal-that something should be done to
relieve the citizens of that state, of
4 two telephone systems. Public meet
ings have been held, and votes taken,
that the telephones of one or the other
of the systems should be thrown out
Resolutions and letters have been sub
mitted to us, and we have started out
to see what we could do to relieve the
citizens OF that state of this burden.
We found that the Independent in
terests operating there also operated
-, ~ &c -,
ton, and in northern Idaho, and that
ness in Montana could be bought,
) or sold, SO as to alone cover the prop
erty in Montana, but that the purchase
: must include their property in the
states Of Idaho and Washington. The
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
t graph Company does not operate in
: either one of these sections, and there
= fore, is not responsible for telephone
= conditions there, nor does it wish to
operate there, but we felt we must
meet the situation in Montana, and
| so, in order to be in a position to
/ either buy or sell, from or to, the
: Independent interests in M o n t ana
J, there was formed this Corporation Sc
h curities and Investment Company, as
I a corporate company, to enter into ne
c gotations with the Independent inter.
:. ests in Montana, which negotiations
e are now in progress, and, if possible
d to buy these Independent interests il
Montana, northern Idaho and Wash
d ington, and then in the end, if tina
d purpose was accomplished, the Corpo
v ration Securities and Investment Com
! pany should sell to The Mountain
|. States Telephone and Telegraph Com
n pany the portion OF the Indep enden
o plants located in Montana, and sci
n to others the portion of these Indie
e pendent plants existing in northern
v Idaho and Washington.
J. We explain this SO the public ma,
h. know that in the above Foreword
1t where we say there is no compan,
e within company, or wheels within
A wheels" we are speaking absolutel
'e truly, and also that this Corporation
D. Securities and Investment Compan>
r which was so freely advertised by Ri
E. articles in the newspapers referred y
e is absolutely legitimate and T ops
at company and organized for the spee'h
IN PURPOSES stated.