N&W in 1912--Wires

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What metal was used in the older wires? 





Kim 

Huntsville 





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Bluefield Daily Telegraph 
Tue., March 26, 1912 
  
THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS 
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Putting in Copper Wires 
    The Norfolk and Western has had a force of men here for several days making some changes in its telegraph and telephone lines. The former wires where the lines cross the rail road are being replaced with copper wire and this work will be carried out from Graham to Columbus. It is claimed the gases from the engines soon destroy the ordinary telegraph and telephone wires, which is not the case with the copper ones, hence the changes. 
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Gordon Hamilton 
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