Journal of electricity, power, and gas . was fif-teen miles to sagebrush. For this reason it was nec-essary to move sections of the line away from thewagon road and the practical route and remove thetemptation of taking this necessity from where itcould be gotten most conveniently. The line wouldbe moved to a new location but the pioneers headed gutta-percha bushing screwed in the tapped hole. Notie wire was used but the cramping of the wire by thetwo prongs of the hook was supposed to hold it fromsliding. The blocks were fastened to the pole bythree 5 in. cut nails. About the year 1885 the in
Journal of electricity, power, and gas . was fif-teen miles to sagebrush. For this reason it was nec-essary to move sections of the line away from thewagon road and the practical route and remove thetemptation of taking this necessity from where itcould be gotten most conveniently. The line wouldbe moved to a new location but the pioneers headed gutta-percha bushing screwed in the tapped hole. Notie wire was used but the cramping of the wire by thetwo prongs of the hook was supposed to hold it fromsliding. The blocks were fastened to the pole bythree 5 in. cut nails. About the year 1885 the insulator blocks were su-perseded by the glass insulator and bracket bracket is similar to the standard side bracketin use at the present time except that they were notthreaded, putty being used instead and the insulatordriven on the taper. It was sometimes necessary towrap the bracket with a piece of rag in order to makea tight fit. The telephone connection between the Churchillcounty telephone system (owned and operated by the. Details, Installation and Use of Block TypeInsulators. west with their families would invariably followand start a new road, at times going miles out of theirway. Considering that this was an unmapped coun-try and the constant risk of an Indian uprising theywould naturally stay as close as possible to the onlysign of civilization—the telegraph line. Running parallel to a section of this old line isa U. S. Reclamation Service telephone line with thewire strung on sawed redwood poles set in to the depth that it was originally 1913, fifteen of these poles scattered over a 7 milestretch, but with no two consecutive poles, rotted offat the ground surface were kept from falling by thetelephone wires attached and until replaced or resetstood vertical swaying with the wind. Northern cedar poles that have been in the groundfour years show a decided decay at the ground sur-face and it is estimated that it would take twentyyears for
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