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her is available on Sherry Fletcher’s presentation (link to video and on the Interviews and Presentations Page of the Black Range website, www.blackrange.org). Little remains of the homesite except some foundations and some walls of outbuildings (photo below). I have named this spring in honor of her.
Access to the spring is an easy walk up the wash which runs parallel to North Percha Road. When a major fork in the wash is encountered, follow the left course. The walk is only 1300’ and the grade is easy, since this is a wash walk the footing is uneven and the typical dangers associated with walks of this type should be considered.
The spring is located on the left side of the wash, not far above the fork mentioned above. Although the spring water is clear there is a young tree growing in the spring, making the spring’s future uncertain. Some fencing was at the site, but it is down and provides no protection for the spring. Water tanks are down slope from the spring, they are rusted out and not used.
(Later visits to the site found all fencing around the spring gone and the spring smashed to bits by cattle. Its future is uncertain.)
