The BC Hydro crew was at the coffee shop this AM and I asked if any more trouble was coming from an incident of a horse eating on one of their new power poles. Early in the winter this year they had a call about one doing that in the Mamette Lake area.

The worker said no and another worker said  who was not familiar replied copper and arsenic solution would probably kill it.   The new hydro poles are pressure treated  with those in a solution;and the poles look green , something probably inviting to a horse in the winter.

They said without qualification that none had been a problem since.

There are wild horses in this area as well and lots up at the highland valley copper mine , the mine feeds them sometimes in the winter. Old timers talk about three distinct herds and a star weekly magazine article about 45 years ago featured the wild horses of the Canford area west of Merritt about 22 kilometers.

There is no indication that the pole eating horse was wild.

Today in History, March 20,1916

Albert Einstein has his general theory of relativity published.