This old pole and pole line we found, researched, and have hiked it's five-mile length over the last couple of summers. It has a very interesting history, as it was the very first power line built out of the Georgetown hydro plant, and was constructed in the summer of 1900. It had white porcelain U-925 Fred Locke lug eared type insulators on it, including on the oak side pin. It also utilized barbed wire up on top as lightning protection, and was three phase power running at 10,000 volts. Evidently the system was very trouble prone, because this line was abandoned and replaced by another line with better conductor spacing only two years later in 1902. It's purpose was to supply power to gold mines in the Georgetown/Idaho Springs area. All traces of this old line are long gone except for a very few of these rustic poles which have somehow survived 107 long, hard, cold Colorado winters at an altitude of nearly 11,000 feet.