TEETER ROCK Traditional Cache
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THIS CACHE IS PLACED ALONG THE ONEIDA AND WESTERN ROAD NEAR A NATURAL ROCK FORMATION THAT I FOUND VERY INTERESTING. YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SMALL CAMO TAPED ROUND PLASTIC CONTAINER.
The construction of this short rail line was grueling for the men who labored day after day to blaze a railroad through some hard rock. Construction started on the O&W Railroad in November, 1913 at Oneida and was completed to Bridge No. 6 near the Big South Fork River (10.2 miles) in June, 1915. Five more miles extended the line to Gernt in 1916. Another 3 miles was completed that year to Christian. It took 2 years to complete the 6.8 miles to Stockton. And, in 1921, the line reached 5 more miles into East Jamestown. A total of 30 miles. Eagle Construction Company built part of the railroad, but most of it was constructed by O&W workers.
In 1921, the normal work day was 10 hours. Waterboys earned 15 cents an hour and section hands earned 25 cents an hour. The railroad created jobs for railroad workers, in addition to the jobs in the log woods, sawmills, and mines. The railroad opened one of the most prosperous booms ever in Scott County. It is easy to see why it took 8 years to build the railroad through this rugged terrain. The "Big Cut’ between the Big South Fork River and Buck Ford was 90 feet high. A steam shovel was used for grading right of way, horse and mule teams did the hauling and pulled the "pan scrapers", hand cars on the completed rails brought in rail sections and tools, and a "rail dog" lifted the rails onto the hand-hewn cross-ties. Manual laborers included crews of colored men and even an Italian camp. Historian H. Clay Smith recorded that "Reason Marcum, a law man of some 34 years in all, was one of the foremen who worked for A. M. Cook, the contractor in charge of building the railroad. Then there were the other foremen: J. H. Flynn and a Mr. HYDE, who were a bit rough and whom the blacks hated. These two went into the tent where several black men were gambling and opened fire on them. The latter fired back at the foremen and killed Hyde. The black man who killed Hyde escaped with his wounds as far as Oakdale, where he was shot and killed by the town police. His body was returned to Oneida and is buried on the Carl COLEMAN’s farm in West Oneida.
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SEBAG YRSG SEBZ PRAGRE BS EBPX