Bead-Jot 'em Down Brown Stone Rectangle TB

This travel bug has the modest goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers.  That is a rate of five drops per year for five years.  As of 14-Dec-19 it had survived for 4.5 years and had been moved by 13 cachers.

Please drop it in rural OR Premium Member Only caches.  Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish.  No permission is needed to leave the U.S.

Travel bug photos are appreciated and will be re-posted here.

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.

Jot 'Em Down, also known as Mohegan, Muddig Prairie, and Bagley, is in extreme western Delta County. The area was part of the James H. Larabee survey and was occupied by 1885, when the Bagley School opened.  In 1905 the school enrolled forty-six students and employed one teacher.  The location was shown on the 1936 county highway map as an unidentified settlement of one business and scattered dwellings.   That year Dion McDonald built a new store  and named it for Lum and Abner's fictional radio store, the Jot 'Em Down Gin Corporation.  The normally humorless state highway department later used Jot 'Em Down as the community name for maps and the name stuck.  In the 1940s, the community started a decline with the loss of its school.  Jot 'Em Down, in 1990, reported a population of ten and it  remained the same in 2000.