Utah Independent Telephone Company
The Utah
Independent Telephone Company is a Utah corporation having an
authorized capital of $1,000,000. The company was organized in
January, 1903, and one year later the business was established
and the company prepared to furnish service. The company has
grown steadily from the beginning, and its Salt Lake Exchange at
the present time is considered to be one of the largest and best
equipped exchanges in the Middle West country.
Utah Independent Telephone
Company
The executive
officers of the company are: H. A. Harvey, president; Fred B.
Jones, general superintendent; D. B. Mackintosh, auditor; and
Benjamin R. Howell, secretary and treasurer. The directors are:
Waldemar Van Cott, managing director; H. A. Harvey, Lawrence
Green, S. F. Fenton, Heber M. Wells, James H. Moyle, Geo. T.
Odell, John D. Spencer, and Heber J. Grant.
The company
owns its buildings and real estate in Salt Lake City, Ogden,
Park City and Eureka. The company's buildings are constructed of
brick, with steel frames, and are all of modern fire-proof
construction. It maintains thirteen exchanges, at the following
points: American Fork, Bingham Canyon, Brigham City, Eureka,
Logan, Murray, Ogden, Park City, Payson, Provo, Salt Lake City,
and Spanish Fork, Utah; and Preston, Idaho, and has established
connection with over sixty-five villages and towns in the States
of Utah and Idaho. It employs approximately two hundred persons
in Salt Lake City alone, and as many more throughout the
territory which is served by the company.
The company
began business with about 1500 telephones actually installed and
at the present time has ten times this number in use. The
company has recently established a system of operating between
Salt Lake City and Ogden which is known as the "two-number
operating," whereby the residents of either city are enabled to
call each other by number instead of by name, and the aid of the
long distance operator is eliminated, thereby giving the most
rapid service between the two municipalities. The rapidly
increasing use of this class of service by the public is an
evidence of the satisfaction with which it has been received.
The company
has made a specialty of private branch exchanges for business
houses, and the rapid growth of this feature of the company's
business is an evidence of its popularity with the company's
subscribers. These exchanges have latterly been rapidly
installed in the business houses in the principal towns and
cities of the State which the company serves, and are giving
most excellent satisfaction. The company furnishes operators for
the exchanges, who are taken from the ranks of the experienced
employees of the company at the time the system is installed.
Business men who have tried this system have never in any case
been otherwise than satisfied with the investment.
The company's
headquarters in Salt Lake City are at 115 South State Street and
a visit to them amply repays the time spent. The entire system
of the company is conducted on the strictest of business
principles, and the result of this policy is shown by the
rapidly growing popularity of the company. The company's
progress to date constitutes a splendid monument to the
efficient management of the company's affairs and the energy and
ability of its executive officers. Strict attention to business,
uniform courtesy and frank dealing with the public is required
of each and every employee of the company through-out the entire
system. This policy has gone far toward the upbuilding of the
institution.
Index
Source: Sketches of the Inter-Mountain
States, Utah, Idaho and Nevada, Published by The Salt Lake
Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1909
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