Double Wells - 40 Mile Desert Traditional Cache
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Double Wells - 40 Mile Desert
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This is another cache to along the infamous 40 miles desert .
The Cache is not far from Hwy 95 The drop down to the trail is a little steep. The trail to this cache is fairly easy and for most of the year you can get there in any vehicle with good ground clearance 4x4 is not needed unless we have had a wet winter the watch out for mud and wash outs
This is one of several caches The Traveling Naugahyde Hunters placed along the California Emigrant Trail Carson River Route.
This section of the historic California Trail was opened from the Sink of the Humboldt River to the Carson River at Ragtown in the fall of 1848 by a wagon train of emigrants captained by Joseph B. Chiles. From Ragtown, the trail followed the Carson River westward to a junction with the Carson Pass Trail.
The Caches are near one of the several Trail Markers placed to mark the route. When you visit one of these caches you will be following the foot steps of the pioneers hope ya’ll enjoy the hunt.
Double Wells - They dug one and it was bad water so they dug another right next to it and it was bad
"About ten miles out the dead teams of [18]49 and [18]50 were seen scattered here and there on the road very soon, however, they became more frequent and in a little while filled the entire roadside; mostly oxen with here and there a horse and once in a while a mule. Wagons, wagon irons, ox chains, harness, rifles, and indeed all the paraphernalia of an emigrant’s "outfit" lay scattered along this notorious route, reminding one of the defeat of some great army."
1. —John Hawkins Clark (1852)
"I had associated with the name "wells" a vision of an oasis—verdure, trees, and cooling water. The whole environment as far as the eye could reach was simply an abomination of desolation...as heaps of hills into which slowly percolated filthy-looking, brackish water. More than half the wells were unavailable as they were filled with the carcasses of cattle which had perished in trying to get water. To add to the natural horrors of the scene, about the wells were scattered the bodies of cattle, horses, and mules which had died here from overwork, hunger, and thirst; broken and abandoned wagons, boxes, bundles of clothing, guns, harness or yokes, anything and everything that the emigrant had outfitted with.
Two of these springs were about four feet apart. In one was a dead ox, swelled up so as to fill the hole closely, his hind legs and tail only above ground. Not far from this was another spring similarly filled. There was scarcely space for the wagons to reach the holes because of the ox carcasses...Here and there around the other springs in an area of one tenth of a mile...eighty-two dead oxen, two dead horses, and one mule. Of course, the [smell] was anything but agreeable."
1. —Quoted in The World Rushed In
The Trail Marker Is Located South Of The Cache on the trail. Take Time to Read it.
The cache is in a white plastic container and contains the usual treasures to find and trade as well as a log book with a couple of writing tools to record your visit
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