A Reminder of Broken Promises Traditional Cache
DairyMedic: Getting ready to move. Pulled this one yesterday afternoon.
A Reminder of Broken Promises
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When you drive thru Hamilton, Montana, you will see very clearly a 150 foot tall smoke stack
The stack was erected in 1917 with the hopes and dreams of becoming part of the Montana-Utah Sugar Company sugar beet processing plant. This processing plant would have included a main building 340 feet by 62 feet with a height of 4 stories. There was also planned a Machine Shop which dimensions were to be 254 feet by 39 feet, a beet shed measuring 500 feet by 250 feet with a silo 300 feet by 200 feet. This site would have been on 80 acres which was donated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Company also bought 40 tons of Russian seed to start the crop.
It seems the company misjudged the cost of the production of the plant and had to spend $200,000 more than they had planned due to the cost of steel at a time of war. There was also trouble in the fields and the company and asked that the school children could help in the fields. These children were paid $1.50 per day. By July of 1917, the crops were considerably ahead of the production of the plant. At the same time, the financial brokers were enthused and determined to place the company in a first-class position. The were also looking at an October completion date. By August there were questions of the disposal of the crop and the directors decided that in the event the company had not shown its ability to care for the crop this season that action must be taken by the Chamber of Commerce to safeguard the interests of the farmers accordingly. Debtors wanted returns on their crop. In October of the same year, The Montana-Utah Sugar Company was taken to court. On December 21, 1917, The Montana-Utah Sugar Company reported the failure of the company and stated that the stack be a monument to what might have been.
Today this is a monument of a new era…Geocaching!!!
The cache you are looking for is a large prescription bottle… you will not need to enter the garden inside the fenced area. You will not need a tall ladder to enter into the stack either!!! Sorry…to easy for hints given the above!!! Please use extreeme stealth when retrieving this cache...this is a very high muggle area. Thanks and Cache On!!
**Note 6/21/2011
We will be moving out of the Bitterroot valley in August and if we can't find any local cachers to adopt this cache we will be looking to archive and pull it sometime around July 15th. So if you would like to find it please let us know and we will wait to put it.
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