GC5CAKJ CofM #10
Type: Multi | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: kekj @ | Hide Date: 09/04/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 44.599 W108° 04.259 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                   

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City of Murals: Delta, CO # 10

Discover and enjoy a portion of the Delta story in its murals

The wealth of murals in Delta, Colorado, created by local artists celebrates the heritage of this community.  Most are located along Main Street. This series is numbered in the order in which the murals were painted.

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It all started in 1986 when the city was awarded funds for an urban renewal project.  A portion of these funds were set aside to begin the “mural project”.  The success of this project has led to the expansion of the Delta Public Art Committee which is currently continuing the mural project and initiating a new program for sculpture and other 3 dimensional media art in public places.

In this series of multi-caches, the coordinates given are a virtual (the mural) from which you will gather information to find the second stage which will contain the log to be signed.  The second stage has a connection to the first, perhaps only in the owners’ minds, but can you read our minds?

This mural is by W. R. Doherty and is a tribute to the historic F.P. Hunt Hardware Store, as it appeared at the turn of the 20th Century. The 'sign' about the mural reads:

Original storefront approximately 25’ wide

Owners through the years:

1894-1910            F.P. Hunt

1911-1924            Stockham Brothers

1925-1978            L. Schmidt & Sons

1978-1988            Mathews True Value

1989-1994            Graham True Value

Tip your head back so you won’t miss some of the fine points of the mural at the top… check out what F.P. Hunt had to offer. Not just a retail store, but services as well.  How about some of the items in the store?  How has the definition of hardware changed through the years?  Do you know what it referred to when F.P. Hunt greeted his customers over a hundred years ago?  How about Queensware, or tinware, or stoves and ranges? 

Although the second floor of the building was used as an assembly area and opera house during the first 20+ years, it became a storage area where the hardware store kept farm implements and tractor parts during L. Schmidt & Sons tenure as proprietor.  At one time, they even sold early automobiles from the second story.  But all that came to an end when the building burned in the early morning hours of December 27, 1939.  The structure was rebuilt reusing some of the original Delta Brick and went on to serve Delta as a hardware store until the building was remodeled in 1995.

To find the second stage of this cache:

N=38^o 44.603 if the north (right) display window in the mural shows rakes and shovels; 38^o 44.941 if builders tools can be seen displayed on the north wall; 38 44.890 if dapper clerks are not wearing cuff protectors.

W=108^o 04.280 if west (back) wall of store pictures tinware; 108^o 04.330 if west end displays cultivators; 108^o 04.296 if Queensware can be seen through left display window.

Definitions:

Hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware

Queensware http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/learning/discovery_packs/pack/lives-of-the-wedgwoods/chapter/queens-ware

Tinware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinware

Steamfitting https://www.google.com/search?q=steamfitting&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

First To Find congratulations to Silverheels! 

Additional Waypoints

03/09/2019 By MsHendrix
So...I came online to log this cache and said to myself, "Wait...where's my ranting DNF?" Turns out I left a ranting DNF on #11 when it was actually this one I went to find on that cold, cold day, when I knew exactly where it was and found it frozen. WHOOOPS, sorry about sending you to check on a cache that I didn't even look for, kekj! I deleted the other DNF. I was right about this one. Now that springtime is on the way and the area has thawed, the biggest problem is the muggles. I signed the log and then drove to the park and walked out to the confluence. TFTC!

10/09/2018 By ARK GOOSE
Caching with Hives and picking up counties in Colorado SL - TFTC

10/09/2018 By Hives
This morning's mission was to do all of the mural caches in Delta (plus any others we encountered along the way). We had a great time and really enjoyed the murals even though we had a couple of DNFs. Nice hide. SL. TFTC

09/29/2018 By kekj
Fresh in from California with a whole passel of new Trackables (21) that we found in a TB hotel out there. ALL had been cooped up for a minimum of 62 days, some for 83, and a half dozen for more than 110 days! A number of them are of international origin! We promised the cache CO and the TB owners that we would travel them around a bit before dropping them in local caches - showing them the sites in the surrounding area of the Rocky Mountains and also to give them a taste of the history/geology and local geocaching. This is one of those Historical caches that we are way-pointing them too.

07/03/2018 By kekj
Just arrived back at home GZ with passel of new TBugs graciously bestowed on as at a challenge event in Grand Junction. Now logging them into home GZ before they start going their separate ways. Picking up some hardware at the new location of the hardware store that occupied the site for so many years as noted in cache description - which also happens to be very close by the end point cache of this multi. For more interesting reading of the local history check out our complete mural series of multi spread up and down Main St of Delta

TFTC - visited Tbugs - team kekj.

05/20/2018 By LolosDream
Found a string of multi caches today, based out in Delta, Colorado. Wonderful multi's based on the murals in town. After work we popped up to Delta to log all the finals. Fun tour of town. SL. TFTC! Found with Pathfinder33.

05/20/2018 By Pathfinder33
This one took longer than it should have, we were to concentrated on the area where GZ said we should be. A good extended search to the south got this one in hand. Though the cache is there, and there is rite in the rain paper in the cache, this log is saturated. We got ink on it, but the top of the log tore easily as I was rolling it back up. This one could use some time in the sun to dry out.

05/02/2018 By kekj
doing a bit of shopping for "hardware" nearby so stopped and checked finial stage to make sure it was still in its hiding place. Did not check the log due to nearby muggles but am sure it is OK as is of waterproof paper. It does turn brown with water stains and sometimes the ink will run but usually still readable and certainly still writable as is call "Rite in the rain" paper! Have fun doing your hardware shopping! visited bugs.

04/01/2018 By CacheKings007
We came to Delta last year and decoded all of the COM series but had to come back to get to all the final spots. This is a great and creative series! This one took a bit of effort to get to the cache but we made the find. We agree with previous logs, this one is a bit wet and fading.