Orting's Tar Pot Traditional Cache
goingup: It is served it's time. Time to say Bye
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Cache was placed by the DuHawks February 2008 and adopted by Goingup January 2013
Small container, with log book & BYOP.
"There is no need to open the top cover in the front - Cache is not there but there are live Bees there".
Please put cache back the way you found it so it does not get muggled or fill up with water.
F.T.F...February 10,2008 - by tomison (1022 found)
From sometime during the 1940's to the 1970's, city maintenance worker Ora Wood patched the city streets of Orting with tar from the tar pot.
Ora would first build a wood fire in the bottom section to melt the tar and keep it hot.
He towed the tar pot with a city Jeep.
Ora was occasionally heard to complain about the constant bellow of hot black smoke from the smoke stack.
Patching city streets was not the tar pot's first use, but the wagon earlier history is unclear. Some say it was a World War II soup wagon used to feed troops. A few claim it was used in a nearby logging camp to feed loggers. More than likely, one section of the soup pot held soup and the other coffee, with each section originally covered with lids.
"FOOTHILL RAILS TO TRAILS - Orting Trail Head"
You can also visit this waymark which is at this location.
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Abg va gur ebpxrel. Abg gur Sebag (ORR'F gurer), VA gur Onpx.
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