Organ Traditional Cache

This is a series of geocaches to commemorate our Great State of New Mexico.  All of the geocaches are named for settlements that once thrived in Dona Ana county but some of them are now nothing more than footnotes in our history.  They have all played an important role in the settling and growth of our county and some of them are still active communities, rich with culture, architecture, and historic buildings.
 

Mining community on US 70, 14 miles NE of Las Cruces, in foothills of Organ Mtns, for which it was named. In 1908 famed sheriff Pat Garrett was shot to death on the road leading from this old mining camp to Las Cruces. Millions in lead, copper, and silver have been earned here, but very little in gold. The mines are now half-filled with water, but the US Bureau of Reclamation officials say it would be too large a job to lower the water table sufficiently to drain or pump out all the water. Post Office 1881, intermittently to present.