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MEEKER | The earliest use of electricity in Meeker was the telegraph lines connecting Rawlins to the Camp on the White River. Service stopped in 1883, when the post was closed. The private company of Rawlins and White River Telegraph company was maintaining telegraph lines in 1885 according the Meeker Herald. The Meeker office opened in June of 1885. L. Learn was listed as the company superintendent in Rawlins. The Rawlins…