Waterloo Gasoline Engine
Company to John Deere.
The cache is not at posted
Coords.
The Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company, with John Froelich
as the driving force. The original intent was to sell Froelich's
gasoline tractor. Only four were produced in the first three years,
and all were returned by their buyers. The company reorganized as
the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company, and focused on selling
stationary engines. The company re-entered the tractor market with
its Waterloo Boy
tractor.
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here comes the fun part: to find where the cache is hidden,
you
need to look for the years that are answers to the following
questions.
AA. What year did
Froelich and a group of investors from Waterloo, Iowa formed the
Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company
BB. What
year did the company reorganized as the Waterloo Gasoline Engine
Company and focused on building gasoline
engines for stationary applications, like powering grain
elevators. John Froelich left the company the same year.
CCC. What
year did Deere & Company purchased Waterloo Gasoline Engine
Company for $2.34 million
DD. What
year did John Deere fashions a polished-steel plow that lets
pioneer farmers cut clean
furrows through sticky Midwest prairie soil.
EE. What
year did John Deere die in Moline at 82.
FFF. What
year did Deere's first diesel-powered unit, the model "R" Tractor,
enter production.
Each answer that you get will,
part of the Coordinates.
Mention the name John Deere and the first image in most people's
minds will be a green-and-yellow tractor.
That's not surprising; Deere & Company is the world's
largest manufacturer of agricultural
equipment and one of the world's best-known brands.
However, it might surprise you to learn that all those green
tractors trace their lineage back not to John Deere,
who died years before the company first put its name on a
self-propelled machine, but to an inventor from Iowa
who developed the first successful gasoline-powered farm
tractor.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.