This geocache is located off Highway 92 about seven miles south of the town of Crawford. There is room to get off the highway near the cache site and there isn’t too much traffic normally. However, use caution, as always, when near the highway. From the cache site, you will have a beautiful view of the Gould (pronounce ghoo-ld) Reservoir. Here is a brief history of how the reservoir came to be:
The Gould Reservoir was a dream of the Gould Family. They wanted a way to store the water from the spring runoff in order to use it to irrigate their dream orchard on Fruitland Mesa throughout the summer months. A local resident touted the location of the dam as ideal because “it has no watershed, has a fine clay bottom and the contemplated dam of sixty feet will back the water about a mile.” In 1901, four Gould brothers started a ditch company to facilitate this dream. Preliminary work on the project began in the early spring of 1900. It took one whole summer just to survey the area for such a large project. In 1907, the former company was organized into the Fruitland Irrigation Company. The dam took years to complete but once finished served as an excellent place to hold the spring runoff.
I also have a personal connection to the dam. My great-grandfather on my mother’s side, Howard George and his brother Hooks George worked on the dam project. I’m not familiar the particulars of their involvement, I just know they helped build the dam.
Today, the reservoir still fills every spring and empties every summer. The water stored here is still used to irrigate land on Fruitland Mesa to the West of the reservoir.
There is no need to cross the fence to find the cache. Happy H
Happy hunting!
Congrats to BG2015 on the FTF!
The Gould
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