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By Mike Bliss


Editor’s Note: This is a story about some fabulous insulators found at a place called “Nine Mile Canyon” in Utah. For more information about the canyon, see the article immediately following Mike’s story.


The Cavalry in the mid 1800s formed  the hopes of getting them involved with  Soldiers were all black Americans. More than one source stated that the color of the African Americans skin could be used as a way to bond with the Indians       tribes in the area and attempt to keep them from raiding settlements.


            Territory to a remote outpost called Fort Duchesne in central Utah. (This is the same Benteen who had been with Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn ten years earlier, and who controversially did not join Custer in the attack.) The black soldiers were cheered on their arrival at Fort Duchesne by the 300 white soldiers already there, as the men and their weapons were welcome reinforcements. An equal number of Ute braves had been threatening an attack, and an additional 700 Indians from the Ouray Reservation had appeared just to see what the    American War in 1898. Fort Duchesne was decommissioned in 1911. A good history about the  territory.htm


The line was built out of the crude 3” iron poles identical to those used to tie the fort system together with telegraph lines. These poles have been found all across the west. This particular line traveled from Price south south-east and went through the Nutter Ranch where a relay station was set up in the pre existing stage coach stop. It continued into 9 Mile Canyon, over the pass, and on down to the fort which is west of Vernal.


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