Sugar Beets Baby, Sugar Beets

My cache is hidden well. In a very natural setting. It might look as though it has been there for a long time, but if you lift it and look under, you will find it.

Bring your own pin for the log, because this is small.

5/25/2015-Once again, I re-hid this cache.

     The Fountain Valley met the unique requirements for growing sugar beets, which were produced in great quantities. When harvested, the large white tubers were shipped to the sugar beet factories in the Arkansas Valley farther south.
     Horses pulled wagon loads of sugar beets from surrounding farms up a ramp located near the Santa Fe depot in Fountain. Wagon beds were made with collapsible sides for loading and hauling sugar beets. In the beet field, one side was lowered to allow beets to be tossed into the wagon and then secured back in place for the trip to the beet dump.
     At the top of the ramp, the side of the wagon bed was lowered and the entire bed was lifted by pulley to dump the beets into a railcar below. With the bed lowered back to the wagon, the horses then pulled it down the ramp on the other side. Farmers stopped growing sugar beets when transporting them became too costly.

Other crops in the area included alfalfa and blue stem, small grains, corn, beans and all vegetables. Hundreds of cherries and apples were grown in great quantities. Livestock included dairies and stock cattle, chickens and turkeys. One rancher had 5000 sheep.

This cache is going to be a bit tricky to find. There have been two other caches hidden in this location but they were found and destroyed by muggles. This is on a real nice path that goes many miles and you can collect caches along the way or park your car at certain areas to pick up the trail if you don’t want to walk that much.

Thank You Hawkthrone and Sons for Archiving Father/Son Adventure and letting me have this spot! I am going to hide several caches in this area with descriptions of not only of the caches themselves but of Fountain Colorado history. This will be my 4th in a series. I hope not only that you enjoy the sport of geocaching but love history as I do. Thank You. This is not on the school property but along a trail that you can pick up that runs along the back side of the school. I am amazed at how my geocaches seem to move about. It seems that people feel the need to move my caches because they think they know best even though I scouted the area and watched it long before they ever were around. Sorry if it isn't in the same place that I put it but hopefully it is near by.