Welcome to the City of Sparks and the Silver State Traditional Cache
Welcome to the City of Sparks and the Silver State
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Located off of Vista Street in East Sparks near a old Sparks landmark. Parents beware of loose rocks in the area and in the summer potential snakes. Please be discreet and keep the cache well hidden. Lots of individuals use this area for hiking and 4 wheel driving
Sparks, Nv Population: 63,000 (est 1997) Elevation: 4400 Feet Cache Elevation: 4814 Feet. Current Price of Silver $5.56 per oz I will try to keep this current. Sparks was an afterthought of the railroad's created to the east of Reno in 1904 to replace Wadsworth as the big switching yard on this section of the southern Pacific Railroad. Like the history of many cities in northern Nevada, the history of the City of Sparks is closely related to the development of the railroad transportation. The City had been called East Reno, New Wadsworth and Harriman for a while, but that did not suit the independent spirit of the new citizenry, and in 1904 was officially named the City of Sparks. In 1905 Sparks became an incorporated city and Governor Sparks hosted a barbecue for the citizens of Sparks at his Alamo Stock Farm in celebration of the honor. Family oriented and hard-working, Sparks was so solid and dull that it sometimes became the butt of local jokes. Early example: "Reno is so close to Hell you can see Sparks." In the 1950s Sparks changed. Acre upon acre of brown composition roofs blossomed up out of the brown dirt as one subdivison after another appeared in the grazing lands on the northeast. This rapid growth continues even today and Sparks has become a wonderful family oriented residential community in which the railroad plays a much diminished role. We love Sparks and we enjoy living in this great City. We also enjoy collecting coins--Coins have a great history behind them---The State of Nevada with its silver and gold mines plays an important role in the history of US coins. This is a theme cache--located in an ammo box--Please try to keep all the items You trade silver in color or with a silver theme to them since Nevada is the Silver State. Items in the cache upon placement of the cache are as follows: a) Morgan Silver Dollar For the first to find group b) Peace Silver Dollar For the second to find group c) Silver girls fashion jewelry Age 3+ d) Silver handle infant spoon e) Silver covered compact mirror f) Silver magnetic power clips g) Silver duct tape h) Silver handle utility tool i) Silver nut cracker j) Silver bell 9 ft garland k) Silver/red super hog bike ages 4+ Parents beware has small parts l) Silver 50 pieces metallic chenille stems m) Silver nail trimmer n) Silver set of measuring spoons o) Silver Mercury Dimes (1916 to 1945)----I have prepaid for at least 25 Mercury Dimes. If You desire a dime you must take one of the green tags out of the plastic bag and take it to a coin store (store is in Sparks) to claim your dimes. Please only one or two dimes per caching group. Note: Any money left in cache box as a trade item I will use to help prepaid for more Mercury dimes to keep the supply going. If you desire Your coins to stay as a trade item please let me know when You log Your cache notes to me. Thank You Arch Buddy
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