Be sure to tightly roll the log and fasten it with the band as you found it. I chose this container because it was a "Ball" glass jar, and you can see the significance of this in the cache description.
Please leave the "laminated" photograph with the cache once you are finished looking.
This cache is ADA accessible.
There is a trackable FTF tag for the first to find this cache.
This is my first geocache hide!
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At the beginning of 1906, construction was underway to build the Schram Glass Plant.
Mr. Alexander Schram became convinced that there was no better place to locate, as here coal was abundant and cheap, and the railroad facilities were of the best, and the people themselves met the promoters with that spirit of progress which characterizes Hillsboro. The Schram Company is known as the largest exclusive fruit jar plant in the world. The plant was built in 1906, employing at first 125 people, gradually increasing it’s capacity till the present the plant has on it’s rolls 300 workmen and workwomen. It runs for about ten months in the year, usually shutting up during the extreme heat of summer, when all needed repairs are made.
The plant consumes about fifty tons of coal, about thirteen tons of soda ash, about forty tons of silica sand, about five tons of sheet zinc per day when running at full capacity. It further takes about fourteen boxes of tin and about 1,000 gross of rubber jar rings per day. From this it will be seen that the plant is no small affair. In some departments quite a number of women are employed, thus making it especially desirable, as we have at Hillsboro a certain percent of worthy and needy women and girls who are glad of this opportunity to aid the family needs and their own comfort.
Taken from “Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Montgomery County” Volume 2 - 1918
The Schram Automatic Fruit Jar Company later became Ball Bros. Glass then later Hillsboro Glass Company manufacturing brown liquor bottles for Hiram Walker.
(The Montgomery County Historical Society)
Congrats to awanderer for being the FTF!