Hwy17/A3 Monto Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/2/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

We have stopped at this park many times on our travels and thought it's about time it had a cache.

Monto is a country town which is the gateway to the Cania Gorge national park and Cania dam. The park where the cache is located is a good highway stop, with toilets, picnic tables and Driver Reviver centre during holiday periods.

The area consisted mostly of large pastoral holdings until the 1870s. Gold was discovered in 1871 causing a rush to the Cania field. The population quickly rose to 252 but by 1876 it was back to four people. Mining continued throughout the 1880s, with one reef yielding 2 395 ounces, and finally ended in the early 1900s.

Around the 1870s the area was infested with speargrass which resulted in sheep being replaced by cattle. Today the cattle industry is so successful that the Monto Branch of the Port Curtis Co-op Association is a major producer of butter, casein and dried buttermilk. In 1983-84 it processed 16 million litres of milk.

The real change in the area came after 1919 when a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the possibility of closer settlement in the northern Burnett River region.

Subsequently 1.4 million acres of the large properties were resumed by the Queensland government and the town of Monto was established in 1924. Monto was the first town in Queensland to be designed under town planning techniques and it was gazetted in 1924. The experiment was a dramatic success. By October 1923 the Government had received 1773 applications for land in the Monto area.

More about Monto on the shire council website (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

haqre pbapergr haqre gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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