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1 <br />soffit boards and 1" x 4" fascias and I" x 8" frieze boards. This structure is in good <br />condition (see drawing A2). <br />The final building remaining in the original town site area is a six bay garage located <br />east of the mine office and across Old State Highway 133. This structure has an overall <br />measurement of 64'-8" x 17'-6". The foundation is poured concrete, as are the walls and the <br />' floor is graveUdirt. The interior partitions are of 2" x 4" wood with a sheet metal surface. <br />Exterior concrete piers project 20" at the base and taper to 0" projection at the top. The roof <br />is constructed of 2" z 4" rafters with 2" x 4" collar ties and 1" x 6" skip spaced sheathing <br />' with corrugated metal roofing. The hip roof exhibits an 8:12 pitch with 12" eve overhangs, <br />boxed soffits and 1 " x 4" fascias. Each bay contains a pair of hinged wood doors with six <br />' horizontal raised panels and 1' x 4" flat casings. Opposite the double doors, each bay unit <br />contains a single 2'-10" x 1'-4" 3 lite wood sash. This garage is in good condition and is <br />currently used for storage (see drawing A4). <br />' Site 5DT1053 is the King Mine of Bowie. It is located on a terrace on the north side <br />of the North Fork of the Gunnison River about 300 meters east of the original town site of <br />' Bowie. The mine buildings are within an area measuring approximately 500 meters N-S by <br />200 meters E-W. The lower building complex is on a river terrace at elevation 5980 feet, <br />while the mine portal complex is on asouth-facing mountain slope at 6590 feet elevation. <br />Much of the following description of the site and chronological information is extracted <br />from a paper written by Robert F. Bowie and his cousin Alice B. Abseck. <br />' The mine was owned by the Juanita Coal and Coke Company incorporated in 1902 in <br />Pueblo, Colorado. That year the company purchased land six miles east of Paonia because <br />of the proposed extension into the area of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The mine <br />' took its name from A.T. King a corporation director and/or his brother H.B. King, [he <br />second general manager of the mine. In 1906, Alexander Bowie invested in the Juanita Coal <br />and Coke Company, and was hired as the general manager. That same year the railroad was <br />' completed as a broad-gauge line from Delta. In Juiy of 1907, the tramway was completed <br />and the first coal was delivered. The mine produced coal from 1903 until 1974; the highest <br />' production year was 1920 when 103,622 tons were produced and 110 miners were <br />employed. <br />Included within this site are the tipple, sales house, power plant, lower mule barn, <br />powder house, blacksmith shop, and mine portal complex (hoist house, upper mule barn, and <br />fan foundation housing). The mine office and associated garage/shop area is included in the <br />' previously recorded site SDT122. <br />All that remains of the tipple are the concrete foundation footings for the steel piers <br />' in an area that measures approximately 90 feet by 75 feet. This tipple was constructed in <br />1928, and was constructed of steel; it replaced a wooden one completed in 1907. The new <br />7 <br /> <br />