Nothing like getting a big crowd to watch you unearth a time capsule at
the statehouse, a capsule thought to have been one of Ezra Meeker's
during his 1906 retracing of the Oregon Trail, only to find nothing
there:

http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060510/NEWS01/605100363

Moral of the story - leave a map!

Dylan McDonald, CA
Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center
551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd
Sacramento, CA  95814-0229
PH  (916) 264-7074
FAX (916) 264-7582
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