Pedzisa mutsara unotevera:
kudengenyeka kukuru kwenyika kwa1906, Home Telephone Company yakapa $75,000 kumari yorubatsiro yeguta racho, asi yakakumbira kuti iitwe kusvikira kodzero yavo yokubvumirana ichibvumidzwa. Zvakazoziviswa gare gare kuti vatariri veguta vakanga vagamuchira mibairo kuburikidza naRuef kubva kuHome Telephone Company nePacific States Telephone Co. Home Telephone yakabhadhara vatariri gumi $3,500 mumwe nomumwe uye vatariri vanomwe $6,000 mumwe nomumwe (anenge $4 kusvika ku $50). Pacific States Telephone Co. yakabhadhara vakuru vakuru gumi $5.000 mumwe nomumwe ($ nhasi). Mushure mokupomerwa mhosva, E.F. Pillsbury, General Counsel wekambani yerunhare, akazivisa kuti akanga asina kumbonzwa nezvokushandiswa kwaRuef, uye angadai akaramba kuti Ruef agamuchire mubhadharo mukuru kudarika $1,000 yake pamwedzi.