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Leigh Creek Hotel in Copley

Charles Todd had put Edward Bagot in charge of the southern section, the contract price being £ 41 a mile for planting poles and stringing the wire on them north from Port Augusta for 500 miles. All the wire, insulators and insulator pins were provided by the government, while the contractors had to supply the poles, twenty to the mile, made of hardwood or iron. They were to be twenty feet long and planted four feet into the ground.

The only extensive stretch of country where there was little or no trees was between Leigh Creek and Beltana, a distance of about 30 miles. So poles had to be brought in for this section from Port Augusta by bullock wagon.