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A Republic Miner Traditional Cache

Hidden : 7/23/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

As always, this is a cemetery, so please be courteous when crossing and pay homage to all of the war vets, miners, and others laid to rest here.  🇺🇸  Please try to replace cache as best as possible, when you find it you will understand.  Happy caching!

 

Congrats to Manco46er for FTF!

This cache is placed in honor or my grandfather, Emp #5307, who was a miner for the Witherbee-Sherman Mine, which was bought out by the Republic Steel Corporation.  He worked in the 21 drift, Don B shaft at the Harmony hoist site, where the ore was hoisted out of the mine and to the surface to the crushing site.  He eventually became Foreman of the crushing site until the mine closed in 1971.  He was laid to rest in this cemetery in 1995, so I felt it fitting that he should get some recognition, as well as all of the other miners that are resting here.  In the cache you will find an actual piece of magnetite iron ore that he brought out himself, as well as a piece of quartz with iron ore in it which was found nearby and a magnet to show it's polarity. Please be courteous with the ore, as this is a piece of family history.  Also in the cache is a FTF wooden coin, a new travel bug with a skull attached (there was radiation in the mine so I found it fitting) and some other swag. There is a pencil with a sharpener in the cache. He was a big "travel from his chair" fan and would have loved to travel the world.  Please help make this happen with todays technology.

 

 

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