Payette-Gem County ID Archives News.....Telephone to Payette April 26, 1894 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patty Theurer seymour784@yahoo.com February 10, 2006, 2:06 am Payette Independent April 26, 1894 Payette Independent Payette, Idaho April 26, 1894 TELEPHONE TO PAYETTE. The Entire Payette Valley Connected by Telephone. Emmett Index. On last Saturday Mr. Ross of the Payette Irrigation company, came up to Emmett to superintend the putting in of a phone at this place on the company’s line. The phone that has been in the head-gate house was taken out and put in E. K. Hayes & Co’s store, which places Payette and Emmett with in talking distance of each other. There are some eight or ten offices along the line between here and Payette and it will prove a great convenience to the entire valley. Owing to an arrangement with the Bell Telephone people the company are not permitted to use the line for profit. It was intended for their exclusive use but the Index is informed that while they will not for the present make a business of allowing the public to use the line, that as an accommodation any one having occasion to use it will not be denied the privilege. As soon as the Caldwell and Emmett line is in arrangements can perhaps be made to handle public patronage. Such little things as a telephone may not amount to much in big cities like Caldwell, but so far as little places like Emmett are concerned we feel like having a regular Fourth of July celebration over the advent of such improvements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/newspapers/telephon186gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb