1904-01-28-sr-p4-farmers-operate-telephone-company
January 28, 1904 Spokesman-Review Page 4:
IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON
OPERATE RURAL PHONES
FARMERS AROUND REARDAN ORGANIZE A COMPANY,
Substantial Lines Will Replace the Barbed Wire System—Will Have City Connections.
REARDAN, Wash., Jan. 27.—The farmers of Spring creek and West Crescent are organizing a company to erect and operate rural telephone lines in this vicinity. The company will be incorporated under the name of the Farmers’ West Crescent Telephone company. The trustees and officers for the first six months are: Oscar Carstens, David Emley and W. H. Childs, trustees; G. Garber, president; J. W. Mann, vice president; Henry Carstens, treasurer; A. J. Cone, secretary.
The company’s principal office will be in Reardan. Arrangements have been made with the Pacific States Telephone company to connect with the long distance line here.
The barbed wire system which has been in use here for the past couple of years, while it educated the community up to the advantages of the rural telephone, has not been altogether satisfactory.
The new company will put up its line in a substantial manner on good cedar poles. This will make the second rural system from this point, the other being owned by John Hansen of Davenport.
