CULBERTSON, MONT.—The organization of of a new telephone company, which is to be known as the Montana Star Telephone Company, is being perfected by F. J. Williams. Considerable stock has already been subscribed for in Culbertson and Poplar, and the company's plans include the construction of lines from Redstone and Plentywood to Culbertson, and from the latter city to Glascow. Local stations are to be established at Homestead, Medicine Lake, Plentywood, Redwood and other places. It is probable that Culbertson will soon be the center of a rural telephone system covering in the neighborhood of 200 miles, which will be owned and operated by patrons and business men along the line.

Wanted—Laborers for telephone work. Apply to O. M. Thorstenson at Evans Hotel or G.W. Tanner.

The local telephone exchange building of the Montana Star Co. is being rapidly erected, holes have been dug in the alleys all over town and poles are being set today. Superintendent Thorstenson has a large crew of men at work.

The Stockholders of the Montana Star Tel. Co. met Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in Stephens Hall in pursuance of the special call published in the Searchlight.

Over two-thirds of the stockholders were present, either in person or by proxy. The meeting was held for the special purpose of voting on the resolution to increase the stock of the Mont. Star Telephone Co. from $20,000 to $50,000 and upon being put to a vote was carried unanimously.

The directors of the Company held a meeting in the afternoon and decided to begin the construction of the line from Culbertson to Nashua as soon as the necessary material can be secured.

The sale of the extra shares of the stock will furnish ample capital and it is expected that the poles will be delivered and construction commenced within 30 days.

The line will extend from Culbertson west along the Great Northern Railway right of way to Nashua and will there connect with the Moore Telephone Line with headquarters in Glascow. This will give Culbertson through telephone service with all points west.

The new line will be heavier and stronger than the Culbertson-Redstone line. Larger poles and better wire is to be used. The Culbertson-Redstone line is known to be one of the best in the northwest, so when the two lines are completed and connected the Redstone-Culbertson-Nashua line will be the equal of any system in the eastern states.

O. M. Thorstenson, General Super­intendent of the Company informed the reported that a force of thirty-five men would be put on the construction work as soon as the poles arrive and the work would be pushed to completion by the first of November, or at latest by the fifteenth.

The construction work will be commenced at the Nashua end of the line in order to complete that end of the line for the use of the U.S. Reclamation Service which is working on the reservation. As stations along the Great Northern Railway are reached, toll stations will be installed which will be connected with the Moore system and an income will at once be established.

When the complete line is finished from Redstone to Nashua, with the big local exchange in Culbertson, and all put in operation, there will undoubtedly be sufficient income to place the stock considerably above the present par value.

The stockholders who were present at the meeting on Tuesday and are cognizant of the efficient and economical management of the present board of directors and general superintendent, were much pleased with the prospect of the company as a paying investment, and most of them will take one or more shares of the new stock to be issued.

PLENTYWOOD, MONT.—The Dakota Western Telephone Co. of Williston, N.D., is making extensive improvements in Montana along the Great Northern branch from Bainville to Plentywood, Mont. Exchanges are being constructed at Medicine Lake and at Plentywood and a long distance circuit strung along this branch. The firm of Thorstenson & Thorstenson have the contract to build the exchanges.

O. M. Thorstenson, of the Motor Inn Garage at Plentywood, was in Flaxville Tuesday obtaining supplies for his breaking outfit on the reservation south of here. Mr. Thorstenson has leased 960 acres on the Fort Peck and expects to have the greater part of it under crop before the present planting season closes, says the Flaxville Democrat.