. Bell telephone magazine . f the origi-nal route was unchanged. The first use made of the aerialphotographs was to study the routefor rough spots, such as hills, moun-tain passes, canyons, and sinks, forthey pictured a condensed Nevada 1944-45 Building the Wests New Telephone Route 243 desert in detail never before avail-able. The next survey step was to stakethe line, following the path of theaerial survey. Operating from basesat four towns in which living accom-modations were obtainable, a force of55 men footed it over their sectionsof the route. These men were im-mediately faced with the p
. Bell telephone magazine . f the origi-nal route was unchanged. The first use made of the aerialphotographs was to study the routefor rough spots, such as hills, moun-tain passes, canyons, and sinks, forthey pictured a condensed Nevada 1944-45 Building the Wests New Telephone Route 243 desert in detail never before avail-able. The next survey step was to stakethe line, following the path of theaerial survey. Operating from basesat four towns in which living accom-modations were obtainable, a force of55 men footed it over their sectionsof the route. These men were im-mediately faced with the problem im-posed by vast distances which are phone construction outfits which werefollowing them. So close, in fact,that one chain man complained thathe hardly had time to get his handout of the way before a mechanicaldigger would be there to put a holein. There was much good-naturedbanter between surveyors and con-struction men on this score; the latterclaiming that the stakes were drivenwherever there was sand—regardless.
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