On Monday Tom found ten stakes he thought to be a mining claim. At one location where the stake was partially destroyed he found this green object. After research, it's a Hemingray - 9 insulator. Digging deeper it has a single groove for wrapping telephone wire. After washing it out in the sink tonight, it's grooved on the inside, and guess what the groove fits onto? Made in the 50's and 60's they were used to insulate rural telephone lines. Most likely what Tom mistook for mining claim stakes were actually the stakes for a telephone line to the abandoned oil well not far from where Tom was exploring. http://www.hemingray.info/database/detail.php?cd=107&source=id
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