N&W in 1912--Wires

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Apparently the original lines were strung with galvanized iron wire.  See the Mailing List Archives, Week Of Monday 8 February 2010, Subject: N&W in 1910--Telephone.

Gordon Hamilton
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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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