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In 1886-87 a telegraph line was constructed to connect Cooktown with the capital. It left the Cooktown-Palmerville line at Fairview, near the present railway terminus at Laura.
The construction was carried on simultaneously by to parties, one working from Fairview and the other from Cape York. The former included Mr. M. Moreton, and Mr. Surveyor Bradford. The latter included Mr. Frank Jardine, who saw and afterwards took up the cattle station Bertie Haugh on what he named the Ducie River. Detachments of Native Police watched over the safety of the construction parties. The Fairview party arrived at Cape York in a famished and exhausted condition.