Previous Kootenai Canvas: Setters grain elevators

Tom Lewis of Post Falls wrote the winning essay correctly identifying the most recent Kootenai Canvas, which was Setters grain elevators near Worley. Read his essay below.

When I saw the latest picture in the Kootenai Canvas, I realized right away that this was a view of the big towers at the spot in the road named Setters on Highway 95.

I first saw the structure from this angle when I was measuring the signal strength of radio station KGA in 1999. Several radio engineers were hired to make careful measurements of the power that the station puts into the air. On the day I first saw Setters I was following a map that had a straight line radiating from the KGA tower site (some 20 miles away). It took me over farm fields and back roads for many days. This particular hot, July afternoon my line crossed over the Idaho state border just west of Setters, I thought, “What are those big things here in the middle of nowhere?” I drove down the narrow road you see at the left of the picture and joined up with Highway 95. My spot to take the measurement was about a quarter mile south of Setters just off the highway. When we took our measurements we put up a small surveyor’s flag at the spot so we could return later and confirm the location. That flag stood there for more than five years as I would look for it when going to Worley.