Sanger Depot Traditional Cache
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The Sanger Depot was constructed in 1888 and is the oldest building in Sanger. The building was moved to this site and made into a museum in 1977.
The city of Sanger is named after Joseph Sanger, Jr., a Southern Pacific Railroad executive. In 1888 the railroad was completed and went through Sanger primarily for the lumber industry. In 1890 the 54 mile long Millwood Flume was completed, from high in the Sierra Mountains down to Sanger. The flume operated for nearly 40 years and brought billions of board feet of lumber down to the valley.
After several different businessmen went broke trying to make the lumber business profitable, the flume stopped operations. The lumberjacks destroyed many beautiful giant sequoias in their attempts to harvest the massive amounts of lumber in each tree. Many of the giants shattered upon impact with the ground and were useless as lumber. Sanger has since mended its ways, including having proposed to congress to protect the giant trees and to name the General Grant tree as the official Nation's Christmas Tree. Each year the City of Sanger now leads a "Trek to the Trees" to honor these trees before Christmas. Sanger was honored by congress as the Nation's Christmas Tree City.
The museum contains a model replica of the Millwood Flume, as well as one of the worlds largest collections of Yokut Indian baskets. These baskets were traded by the native indians to the merchants in Sanger for goods. The museum is open Fridays from 9:30-12:30 and Sundays from 1-4. (cost is $1 adults $.25 children)
The cache is a 1x4x8 container.
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(Decrypt)
4 bs gurfr va sebag, 5 va onpx, svaq gur bar pybfrfg gb gur pbbeqvangrf naq wnpxcbg!
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