Colorado was a leader in the Western telephone industry, with the first telephone company, Denver Telephone Dispatch Company, opening for business in 1879.   This Denver telephone exchange was only the seventeenth such phone exchange to establish itself in the country.  This company was short-lived as its founder and other business men created the Colorado Telephone Company in 1881, while dissolving the old Denver Telephone Dispatch Company.  Other exchanges in the state were not far behind, including H.A.W. Tabors' Leadville Telephone Company, which was purchased by the Colorado Telephone Company in 1888.  By 1913, Colorado had 34 Telephone companies paying their taxes to the state.   Colorado has a rich history of telecommunications technology which brought the state, and the country, closer together. 

Below is a sample of telephone and telegraph stock and bond certificates from around Colorado.

We hope you enjoy them....

This space reserved for your Colorado Telephone stock or bond certificate!	Aspen and Glenwood Springs Telephone Company Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado - 1886
Big Bend Rural Telephone Company - 1912	Burlington Telephone Company - 1905
Colorado Telephone Company - 1883	Colorado Telephone Company - 1893
Colorado Telephone Company - 1910	Crested Butte Telephone Company Crested Butte, Colorado - 1907
Denver Telephone Company - 1897	Denver Telephone Company - 1898
	Elk Mountain Mutual Telephone Company Steamboat Springs, Colorado - 1905
El Paso Telephone Company Colorado City, Colorado - 1904	Extension Telephone Company Conejos, Colorado - 1900

 

 

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