GC1MJZA Where's the Beef?! (Multi-cache) in Missouri, United States created by Woodland Clan

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Woodland Clan: Off to the slaughterhouse with ya'!

GC1MJZA ▼

A cache by Woodland Clan Message this owner

Hidden : 2/10/2009

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A nearby cache, "A Whole Lotta Bull" by cottingham (GC5C62), mentions what happened to the cut-outs at the site of his virtual cache. Not wanting to waste the proverbial scraps, we cooked up this simple, two-stage multi-cache that highlights one of the historic places in Kansas City history.

Stage One will have you looking for coordinates to the second/final stage. Stage Two will be a magnetic key case, discreetly hidden in a metallic "container."

At Stage One, you will be near a very busy intersection with a lot of traffic. Please be very careful in your parking and searching. We strongly recommend keeping the kids away from Stage One.

Stage Two will be much more friendly. In fact, on a good day, you can make it a park-n-grab. When retrieving and replacing the keycase, please be careful as to not force it in. It will go in and out at specific angles. Please leave enough of the keycase exposed so that the next cacher can retrieve and sign as well.

The Kansas City Stock Yards, after 120 years in business, closed October 1991. Although no longer existing, the stockyards and all its concomitant industries should never be forgotten.

They contributed greatly to the foundation of Kansas City's development and economy. Established in 1871, the Kansas City Stock Yards flourished. Early on it expanded its original 13 acres to 55, added loading docks on both the Kansas and Missouri Pacific tracks and new sheds for hogs and sheep, and developed one of the largest horse and mule markets in the country.

Purchase of land on the Missouri side in 1878 made the Yards a bi-state operation. In 1899, the Hereford breeders in conjunction with the stockyards began what is known today as the American Royal Livestock and Horse Show. The only counterpart in the world at that time was the annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, known as the English Royal. This show furnished the pattern (and name) for the American Royal. The stockyards may be gone, but the American Royal is alive and well, serving as a reminder of the importance of the livestock industry to Kansas City.

By the turn of the nineteenth century, the Kansas City Stock Yards was the second busiest in the nation next to Chicago. The 1903 flood and 1917 fire damaged but did not diminish the bustling activity at the Yards. Activity peaked in the '40s when the dollar volume ran $350 million a year. The 1951 flood, however, sounded its death knell. The nearby packing plants suffered severely, and many, instead of rebuilding, closed. Additionally, farmers increasingly began negotiating directly with packers or marketing through smaller regional auction houses.

Today the nine-story Livestock Exchange Building, 1600 Genessee Street, built in 1910 has been renovated and leased to over 70 businesses. The legendary Golden Ox Restaurant and Lounge, "where the steak was born," still operates.