Oyate Trail Geocache
Series
This is #90 of the Oyate Trail Geocache
series.
Starting just north of Sioux City, the Oyate Trail follows
Highways 50 and 18 along the southern border of South Dakota all
the way to Edgemont. There are 110 geocaches spaced approximately
every 3 miles along the trail. These caches are numbered from east
to west, #1 to #110.
The first 50 geocachers to find and log at least 100 of the 110
caches along the trail are eligible for an Official Oyate Trail
Geocaching Coin. To apply for your coin, email Charlie with the minimum 100+ codes
that you will find on the top portion of the cache log, for
example: OT - "D", on my cache hides.
These codes must be in order, #1 to #110, for example: 1D, 2O, 3N,
4T, etc. Include your name and address, so if the codes are
correct, Charlie can mail your coin.
The terrain here is hillocky and the cache is well hidden. To
the west is the town of Batesland, which had a 2010 census of
108.
The survey of the town site of Batesland was made in the year of
1920 by Paul E. Brown, Deputy State surveyor of South Dakota, at
the instance of A.L. Krause and O.C. Anderson, founders of the
town. The plat of the town and the certificate and dedication was
filed for record in the register of deeds office at Hot Springs on
August 18, 1922. The town was named in honor of Charles H. Bates of
Yankton, who was awarded the government contract to survey Pine
Ridge Reservation by the late Richard Hughes of Rapid City, then
United States Surveyor General. The first lots sold were on Jan. 8,
1923, to E.J. Tellifero, who erected the first building on the town
site that year and opened a store. He was the first postmaster and
conducted the affairs of the office in his store building. The
original town site covered 80 acres. The streets running east and
west were numbered from one to four consecutively beginning at U.S.
Route 18 on the north. The streets running north and south were
named, beginning with the section line, Ash, Beech, Cedar, and
Dakota. In 1929 the first addition to Batesland was surveyed and
platted. This was laid out by William Weaver, and called
Weavers’ Addition to Batesland. The addition joined the
original town site on the east.
Information about Batesland gleaned
from Wikipedia.
There is room to park with a short walk to the cache over uphill
terrain. You are looking for a small Tupperware container. Respect
the area, CITO if needed, and rehide the cache as you find it so
the next person can have the same challenge. Thank you and good
luck.
Congratulations
"pieslicer" : First to Find - October 15, 2011
