Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
COMMUNICATION ON
TELEPHONE MATTER
ADVERTISEMENT
WISCONSIN TELEPHONE co.
DISTRICT OFFICE
MADISON
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MADISON
April 10, 1923.
To the Editor of the Grant County
Herald, Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Dear Sir:
On February II, 1923, an article ap-
peared in the Grant County Herald
concerning negotiations of the Farm
ers' Telephone Company at Lancas-
ter and the Wisconsin Telephone
Company in connection with the local
plants of both companies at Lancas
ter
We have, for a long time, appreciat-
ed the desirability of one local tele-
phone exchange in the city of Lam
caster. The Wisconsin Telephone
Company has heretofore expressed a
willingness to sell its property in
Lancaster to the Farmers Telephone
Company. If the Farmers Telephone
Company do not care to purchase the
property of the Wisconsin Company
we will entertain a proposition of
making a division of the territory in
and in the vicinity of Lancaster
whereby the Farmers Telephone
Company will operate part of the
territory and the Wisconsin Tele
of the territory.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company
has no other business than the opera
ton of the telephone business. It's
employees and officers have but one
thought and one business before them
and that is the operation Of the tele-
phone business and to render salts
factory service to the public. The
Wisconsin Telephone Company has
an organization trained to do this
kind of work.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company
does not expect nor plan to operate
all the telephones in the State of Wis
consin. Out of more than 635 tele
phone exchanges in the State of Wis
consin, the Wisconsin Telephone
Company operates less than so. The
Wisconsin Telephone Company has SO
arranged the connection of it's toll
lines with all Of the telephone ex-
changes in the state that is possible
for the telephone subscribers of all
telephone companies to have access
and use the Wisconsin Company's toll
lines.
Lancaster is the only exchange
which the Wisconsin Telephone Com
pany operates in Grant County. The
Farmers Telephone Company oper-
ates at Glen Haven, Cassville, Potosi,
Bloomington and Beetown. The Wis
consin Telephone Company has long
distance lines throughout Grant
County and the southwestern part of
the state and it is desirable that the
Wisconsin Telephone Company Oper-
ate an office in Lancaster for the OPP
Grafton Of it's toll lines. 1t would
seem practical that if the Wisconsin
Telephone Company operates its toll
lines throughout Grant County from
Lancaster that it might at the same
time operate the local exchange in the
City of Lancaster, purchasing the To-
cal lines Of the Farmers Company in
Lancaster, the Farmers Company to
continue to own all rural lines, as
we'll as it's other exchanges at Glen
Haven, Cassville, Potosi, Blooming
ton and Beetown. The corrective
measures resulting from such pro-
cedure would be a division of the ter
ritory, leaving five exchanges to be
operated by the Farmers Company
in Grant County and the city eX-
change of Lancaster to be operated by
the Wisconsin Telephone Company.
the rural lines in the vicinity of Ian
caster to be operated by the Farmers
Company with unlimited service with
Lancaster.
This certainly would leave the
Farmers Company the majority Of
the local business in Grant County
and neither Company would with
draw from the territory, but there
would be a division of the territory in
a manner that should work out salts
factorAy to both companies and to the
public.
The Wisconsin Company has offer
ed to sell it's property or it will agree
to a division of territory and will take
over and pay for any property which,
in the division territory, might come
within the territory to be served by
the Wisconsin Telephone Company.
In fact, we are willing to do anything
that is reasonable, because we ap-
preciate the desirability of one tele-
phone exchange in the City of Ian
caster
We hope that your newspaper may
see the wisdom of such a course and
that the people of Grant County will
encourage the Farmers Company to
adopt such a plan in their own inter-
ests as we'll as the interests of the
telephone using public OF Grant
County.
Yours truly,
T. N. MOORE,
District Manager.
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