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<br />.' ,. I <br />....,.Ujl" t~: .~.J. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Townships 10 and 11 N" R, 84 W" 6th P.M, in Colorado <br />to a point where Continental Divide crosses line <br />between Sections 14 and 15, T, 13 N" R, 85 W" 6th <br />P,M, in Wyoming, Thus was settled timber trespass <br />number 1 on the Routt and so also was built the famous <br />Fireline Driveway over which millions of Wyoming <br />sheep have travelled from the deserts to the high <br />summer ranges of the Routt (Routt National Forest 1965: <br />39-40, see also 211), <br /> <br />Ruins of the small log cabins occupied by "tie hacks" still <br />survive along the edges of Hog Park and elsewhere in the Encampment <br />River Basin of Colorado, <br /> <br />The Hog Park Guard Station was built in 1910, The guard station <br />is still used by Routt National Forest, The footbridge across the <br />Encampment River and the original buck-and-pole horse pasture fence <br />also survive, <br /> <br />Conclusions <br /> <br />Based on present evidence, the Encampment River Basin is not <br />"outstandingly significant" in terms of prehistoric archaeological <br />resources, The Encampment Basin is, however, "outstandingly <br />significant" historically, Three historical resources of considerable <br />value are associated with the Encampment River: (1) the Ellis <br />Freight Trail to Hahns Peak, (2) the Hog Park Guard Station, and (3) <br />the "tie hack" cabins associated with the Carbon Timber Company Trespass <br />incident, <br /> <br />The Ellis Freight Trail was constructed in 1877 to supply Hahns <br />Peak, It also served as the major horseback, ski, snowshoe, and <br />walking route from the railhead at Laramie to the Hahns Peak gold <br />fields, and as the supply route to the Encampment River Commissary, <br />from the Elk River ranches to feed the "tie hacks" living in the Hog <br />Park area (Colorado Inventory of Historic Sites), <br /> <br />Hog Park Guard Station is a single story building of about 15 by <br />30 feet that has a rock-and-cement foundation and log walls, Built in <br />1910, it survives as the (second?) oldest remaining guard station on <br />Routt National Forest, Associated bridge foundations and a buck and <br />pole fence also remain, <br /> <br />The "tie hack" cabin ruins, which dot the flanks of Hog Park, are <br />also of historic value as they relate to (1) the regionally important <br />tie-cutting industry stimulated by the Union pacific, as well as other <br />roads, and (2) the "infamous" Carbon Timber Company Trespass case, <br />