A site marker device and marker are provided. The glass rod and the glass particle synthesizing burners are reciprocated in parallel and relatively to deposit glass particles synthesized by the burners on the surface of the glass rod, thereby producing a soot body. A buried high resistivity region and at least an insulating structure is provided insulating the first well from the second well. The sponsoring organization offers to the customer to activate the line of credit while the customer is at the predetermined location, and the line of credit is activated as part of a chargeable event at the predetermined location. In one embodiment, the method includes: reading data on a command token, reading data on a token; encrypting the token data with a key; encrypting an authentication data with a clear text token data; and transmitting the encrypted authentication data with the encrypted token data to a remote device. A current suppressing circuit connected to the article detectors and to the current detector causes limited currents to be supplied only to motors including the motors in the zones where the first and second in order ones of articles being conveyed are present.