Oswego Pipe Works Traditional Cache
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Find the correct path to the treasure. Slippery in wetter times. Please replace cammo so container remains completely hidden. There may be a lot of GPS signal bounce but you should be able to get the correct area just follow the hint and you shall get your prize.
Water Pipe for the West Coast
The Oswego Pipe Works, built by the Oregon Iron & Steel Company in 1888, was the first pipe foundry west of Saint Louis. Located on the south bank of Tryon Creek beside the Willamette River, the foundry was a separate operation from the company’s nearby smelting furnace. The foundry operated intermittently for 40 years producing water and gas pipe for Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco.The pipe works closed in 1928. Portland’s First water mains were three-inch wooden pipes, bored out by hand. Until 1895 Portland’s water came from the Willamette River and local creeks. Repeated disease outbreaks from dirty water caused a public outcry.
In 1885 the Portland Water Committee was formed to search for a cleaner source of drinking water. In 1864 the Portland Water Company installed the city’s First cast iron water mains. To keep up with Portland’s expanding water needs, the water company had to ship tons of pipe around the Horn every year. Not surprisingly, the water company owners, who were also stockholders in the Oregon Iron Company, began thinking about manufacturing pipe in Oregon. The opportunity to build a pipe foundry came in 1888 when the Oregon Iron & Steel Company built a new iron works half a mile north of the old furnace. After considering options that included Oswego Lake and the Clackamas River, the committee chose Mount Hood’s Bull Run River as Portland’s water source. Oregon Iron & Steel was awarded a contract to manufacture pipe for the 24-mile
pipeline. On January 2, 1895, the first Bull Run water flowed to Portland and within two years there was a phenomenal decrease in the number of cases of typhoid fever. Portland achieved the lowest death rate on record at the time.
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