Arizona republican., 1913-12-01

1 prosperity depends largely upon the utilities that bring them in contact 1 with each other. and that the more nearly perfect in efficiency and suf- 1 ficiency the utilities serving the pub lie are, the more prosperity, com i forts and conVeniences the public l will enjoy.
 1 We believe our story is an inter esting one, and We hope that exery- one will read it.
 i Note.-As an instance of the kind l of startling news which newspapers 1 sometimes publish. we want to call attention to recent articles in the newspapers headed, United States 1 Government Calls Upon Two Girl Stenographers to Tell Where They i Got Two Million Dollars to Form the | Corporation Securities and Invest ment Company" Then the article went on to say that this Corporation Securities and Investment Company was a scheme of the Telephone Com ! pany to further its purpose of mon ! EOpOliZing telephone companies, etc. The truth is that our company has i been met with strong feeling in the 1 State of MOntana-WelI-nig unVer- 1 sal-that something should be done i to relieve the citizens of that state, i of two telephone systems. Public , taken. that the telephones of one or
 the other of the systems should be 1 thrown out Resolutions and letters l have been submitted to us, and We i have started out to see what we [ could do to relieve the citizens of | that state of this burden.
 1 We found that the Independent in- ] terests operating there also operated lin Spokane, in the State Of Washlns- ton. and in northern Idaho, and that lthe Independent interests doing busi- l ness in Montana could not be bought. or sold. so as to alone cover the prop ertv- in Montana, but that the pur- Ichase must include their property in ! the states of Idiaho and Washington. ] The Mountain States Telephone ana i Telegraph Company does not operate ] in either of these sections, ano' ] Therefore. is not responsible for tele- phone conditions there, nor does It wish to operate there, but we 1eIt we must meet the situation in Mon | tana and so. in order to be in a po- isitfon to either buy or sell, from or ito the Independent interests in Mon +ana there was formed this Corpora Ition Securities and Investment Com many as a corporate company to enter into negotiations with the m
 | i,7a1,ardaut interests in Montana, Whlch
 negotiations are now in progress and if possible to buy these lnde-
 Inendent interests in Montana, north
 Tern Idaho and Washington, ana then J in the end. if that purpose was ac-
 i icompIished. the Corporation Iitias and Investment Company shoulu ieeU to the Mountain States Telephone land Telegraph Company the portion
 of the Independent plants located III Montana. and sell to others the DOT tion of these Independent plants eX- tstino, in northern Idaho and Wash Iington. ,.,.o r,.v .1,,+ in the q aboVe FOreWord,
 Where we say there is no company within q company. or wheels within wheels" we are speaking absolutelY I+ruIv. and also that this Corporation ! Securities and Investment Company which was so freely advertised by the
 articles in the newspaper referred to- 1 is absolutely a legitimate and proper
 icomnanv and organized for the
 specific purposes stated.