Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-03-30

party business lines, S4.55; one par
ty. inwards lines, s2.75; two party
business lines, $500; four party bus
mess lines, 1925; one party residence
lines, $3.50; two party residence
lines, $3.50; four party residence
lines, S2.25. Extension sets for busi-
ness lines are scheduled for S1.5O
and for residence lines at $1.25. The
number of subscribers in this group
range from 362 for the smallest ex-
change to 664 for the largest.
Group four, inwhich the subscrib-
ers range from 5s6 to 1,2O7 per ex-
change, includes Darlington, Flor
ence and Orangeburg and has the fol-
lowing rates: One party business
linesS5; one party inwards lines $3;
two party business lines, s4.35; four
party business lines, S3.75; one par
ty residence lines, s3.10; two party
residence lines, $3.50, and four party
residence lines, $2.15. Extensions
for business lines are $1.50 and for
residence lines, S1.25.
The rates authorized for Anderson,
which numbers 1929 subscribers,
are: One party business lines, $5.4O;
one party inwards lines, So; two party
business lines, $3.50; four party bus
mess lines, S4.20; one party residence
lines, $3.50; two party residence
lines, $2.70,and four party residence
lines S2.4O. Extension sets are sched-
uled at $1.50 for business and $1.25
for. residence lines.
The rates for Greenville and Spar
tanburg, which number respectively
3,752and 2,727 subscribers, are: One
party business lines, $6.25; one party
inwards lines, $3.50; one party mes
sage rates business lines, S4.80; two
party business lines, $3.50; four par
ty business lines, S4.35; one party
residence lines, $3.75; two party resi-
dence lines, 'S3.75; two party resi-
dence lines, $50, and four party
residence lines, $3.50. Extension set
rates proposed are 81 for business
lines and $1.25 for residence lines.
Under the terms of the commits
sion's order all other special rates
charges and practices for telephone
equipment and service now in effect
will be continued without increase,
among these being the additional
charge for lines extending beyond the
city limits of AZ cents for each quar-
ter of mile or fraction thereof.
To Retain Jurisdiction.
The commission also retains juris-
diction of the case for the purpose of
making such rate changes as further
investigation may make necessary,
requiring the company to file with
the commission at seini-annual peri
DDS financial statements setting forth
the results of the operation of the
company's contention that improve
ment of telephone service in the state
was being delayed by the lack of
funds, also orders "that general
Improvement in the telephone service
throughout the state shall be expe-
dited with all possible haste and
such changes additions and better
ments shall be made as well, with the
greatest possible dispatch, supply
telephone service to all persons who
wish such service and that the service
shall be brought to the highest pos
sible state of efficiency"
The company IN filing it's petition
for the increase offered in support
of it's prayer that it was not earning
fair return on its property invest
ment in South Carolina. The return
in 1919, the company stated, was on
ly 1.31 per cent. The proposed rate
revision schedule, which was adopted
in part by the commission would, the
company stated, give net return OF
4.s9 per cent on it's South Carolina
property investments. This, company
officials said, was inadequate but
would in some measure enable the
company to obtain the capital neces-
sary to make Improvements. The COM
MISSIONS order, which eliminated two
sections of this schdule, will there
fore hardly enable the company to
make even this estimated return
The State.