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DRMS Permit Index
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C1996083
IBM Index Class Name
Permit File
Doc Date
11/4/2014
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Section 19
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Volume VI Cultural Resources
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Cultural Resource Re- Visitation Form <br />Resource Number: 5DT1053 Temporary Resource Number: GRI 2013 -52 <br />16. Known Collections, Reports, or Interviews: <br />Conner, Carl E. <br />1995 Cultural Resource Inventory Report for the Proposed Bowie #2 Mine, Delta County, Colorado. <br />DT.LM.R20 <br />Conner, Carl E., Barbara J. Davenport and Brad Davenport <br />1996 Level II Documentation of Structures within the Historic Town of Bowie (5DT122) and the Associated <br />King Mine (5DT1053), Delta County, CO. (Original and Addendum). DT.LM.R21 <br />17. Site Description /Update: A previously unrecorded feature was discovered on site 5DT1053, the King Mine, and <br />documented as a large, sandstone block retaining wall. The dry-laid wall is situated roughly half way up the talus slope <br />between the tipple and the powerhouse at the base of the slope and the hoist house at the top of the tramway. The <br />wall's purpose appears to have been to help contain and direct the flow of spilled coal emanating from the upper <br />portion of the tramway. Although the wall is visible in a 1930 photograph of the town of Bowie (see attached photo), at <br />some point it became completely buried in the coal tailings and remained concealed until recent work on a drainage <br />ditch below the feature released a slide of tailings, exposing the feature. <br />The wall consists of dry-laid sandstone blocks — quarried from the outcrop of Mesa Verde Formation sandstone <br />that is exposed approximately 100 yards uphill from the wall. The currently exposed portion of the wall measures <br />approximately 75 feet long, northwest - southeast by a maximum of approximately eight feet in height, however it is likely <br />that additional wall remains buried. The individual stones that make up the wall range in size from about 25 x 20 x 5cm <br />to 75cm in diameter, and the interstices between the stones are chinked with small sandstone fragments. <br />The outer (southwest) face of the wall was built so as to angle backward at the top at an angle of approximately <br />70° from horizontal. Occasionally, on the face of individual stones, remnants of drill -holes can be seen — apparently as a <br />result of drilling to set blasting charges to fracture the stone from the bedrock matrix. Otherwise, the stones are <br />unshaped and un- faced. Multiple sections of iron rail (likely from a narrow -gauge mine railroad) have been placed <br />vertically into the dry -laid masonry to act as retaining supports. Additionally, remnants of several highly deteriorated log <br />beams can be seen in the wall that presumably served the same purpose. <br />In front of the wall, several yards to the southwest, are two or more rusted metal wires running up and down on <br />the surface of the talus slope, possibly to provide electricity to hoist house, or remnants of a communications system <br />between the hoist house and the tipple /power house below. Sections of what appear to have been an iron water pipe <br />also rest atop the retaining wall, leading upward toward the hoist house. A small section of a separate sandstone <br />drywall can be seen exposed on the opposite side of the coal tailings to the northeast, suggesting that a similar <br />retaining wall exists beneath the overburden of tailings at that location <br />18. Photograph Numbers: 2013 -52 CM 1 -1, 2 -1 thru 2 -16 <br />Digital files at: Grand River Institute, Grand Junction, Colorado <br />19. Artifact and Field Documentation Storage Location: Grand River Institute, Grand Junction, Colorado <br />20. Report Title: 5DT1053, King Mine, Additional Structural Recording in Delta County, CO for Bowie Resources, <br />LLC. [GRI 2013 -52] <br />21. Recorder(s): Curtis Martin and Holly Shelton <br />Date: 07/31/2013 <br />22. Recorder Affiliation: Grand River Institute <br />Phone Number /Email: Grand River Institute 970 - 245 -7868 / cconner @aol.com <br />Note: Please attach a sketch map, a photocopy of the USGS quad. map indicating resource location, and <br />photographs. <br />History Colorado — Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation <br />1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203 <br />303 - 866 -3395 <br />Page 2 of 2 <br />
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