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We passed many sawhorse looking telegraph wire supports where the copper wire was stolen long ago.

These were protected historic relics. I suspect the design was used to avoid digging holes for poles in the permafrost.

The telegraph was important to Alaska where travel is difficult.

The telegraph was especially imortant for miitary commusincation in Alaska, hence the building of the Washigton - Alaska Cable & Military Telegraph System (WAMCATS). A station for WAMCATS was opened in Nenana in 1905, a few miles from here.

An alternate to the telegraph was frequently dog sled.