AZ/NM State Line Route 60 Cache Traditional Geocache
AZ/NM State Line Route 60 Cache
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Cache located next to Route 60 at boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico.
From a 1956 issue of Arizona Highways magazine devoted to Route 60: “For a thousand years before the arrival of the first freight wagon, the path of the future ‘Route 60’ had known the soft pad of primitive feet. Over this Route have since come perhaps as varied a passenger list as anywhere on earth: mountain men, prospectors, pioneers, missionaries, freighters, Indian Scouts, army troops, bandits, cattle thieves.…” (From A Route 60 Tour of New Mexico and Arizona at http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/a-route-sixty-tour-of-new-mexico-and-arizona) In 1873 Chandler Robbins (1844-1921) came to New Mexico to work under Surveyor General James K. Proudfit. A year later Chandler Robbins, a Deputy Surveyor of the U. S. General Land Office, received a contract to locate and monument Four Corners and to survey and monument the state line to its intersection with the Mexican boundary, for which he was to be paid $70 per mile. Chandler Robbins wrote a letter to the editor of the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican, where it was published on November 1, 1875. In it, Robbins explained: “For the benefit of your many readers whom I suppose will be interested therein, I herewith send you a brief description of the most prominent points on or near the boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico. (From Robbins and the Arizona Line at http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/6057) History: U.S. 60 terminated east of New Mexico until 1932. In that year, it replaced the original route of U.S. 70, which took it westward through Fort Sumner, Vaughn, Willard, Socorro, and Datil. In Arizona, U.S. 60 took a new southwestward route toward Globe rather than the northwestward route originally taken by U.S. 70 toward Holbrook along what is now U.S. 180. (From U.S. Highways in New Mexico at http://www.steve-riner.com/nmhighways/us-interstates.htm) Original cache contains Log book, Arizona copper post card, New Mexico deck of cards, "I Love Geocaching" pin, Coors Light bottle opener, Tundra koozy, mini cowboy bear, Calf. State Grange Sparks, NV 132nd Convention Pin, Navy Reserve coin, Gone Fishin' travel bug, and camera- please take a picture of yourself!
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