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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Terms & Conditions: Each cache site can only be used once per year towards each redemption. Gold Country reserves the right to limit or revoke this offer at anytime. Additional terms and conditions may apply.
SITE #010101 GC1TWTM PIONEERS & EARLY SETTLERS The Butte Ranch Site Written & Researched by Kathy Paulos Nearest Community: Location/Parking: Geocache Location: Accuracy: Letterboxing Clues: SITE IDENTIFICATION UTM: Geocache altitude: Overall difficulty: Ashcroft, V0K 1A0 N 50°44.835’ W 121°14.344’ N 50°44.797’ W 121°14.007’ 5 meters Refer to letterboxing clues page East 0624629; North 5623136 10U 302 m./991 ft. 2 1.5 Terrain difficulty: (1=easiest; 5=hardest) Date Established: c 1860 Ownership: Private Property Access: • Public Road • Year-round • Vehicle accessible • Detailed access information on next page. For more information or to report a problem with this site please contact: Gold Country Communities Society P.O. Box 933 Cache Creek, B.C. V0K 1H0 Tel: 1-877-453-9467 email: info@exploregoldcountry.com For more site pages go to: www.goldtrail.com or www.GeoTourismCanada.com Apply Sticker Here Just 3 km from Ashcroft up the Evans Road you will come to a desolate area, where windswept cliffs provide an incredible backdrop to the winding Thompson River. The local residents call it the “slough”. Avid movie fans may recognize this area from the opening scene of the 2007 Mark Wahlberg movie, ‘Shooter’. Several of Ashcroft’s early settlers homesteaded in this area, including one of the founding fathers, William Brink. Born in the United States, and like so many others, the discovery of gold brought him and partner J.C. Barnes into Yale in 1858. Here they packed freight north to the gold fields. Not enjoying the hardships and cold weather of the north, Brink and Barnes decided to homestead in Ashcroft. By the mid 1860s, the partners were farming large tracts of land, including the mile long flat of the present Ashcroft town site. William Brink chose the “slough area” to farm and called it “The Butte Ranch”. Although Barnes and Brink are listed in the 1878 directory, according to early Cariboo historian J.B. Leighton, Brink refused to have his name listed on the 1874 voters list and his early life remains a bit of a mystery. Unfortunately, Brink passed away on July 11, 1879, five years before the coming of the rail and the emergence of a bustling supply town, and was buried on his homestead. When the Canadian National Railway tracks were laid, his body was exhumed and moved further up the bank. The gravesite remains to this day, marked with a William Brink’s gravesite Photo: Ashcroft Museum 11
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