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The canyon in which the site is located is vegetated with dense serviceberry, Gamble oak, and <br />saltbush, with an understory of sagebrush, yarrow, snakeweed, aster, wild rose, thistle, and <br />Indian paintbrush. Ground visibility was approximately 80 percent on the day of recording. <br />The colluvial soil consists of deep, brown clayey loam of at least a meter in depth as visible <br />in the nearby roadcut and the disturbed area in front of the dugout. The area is currently used <br />for coal mining, hunting, and cattle grazing. <br />The site measures 44m east -west by 52m north -south. The eastern edge of the site is <br />defined by a modern fence and the edge of County Road 33. The site consists of three <br />historic features, with no associated portable artifacts. Feature 1 is the remains of a dry -laid, <br />rock -walled dugout, which opens to the west, away from the road. What was apparently a <br />three -sided structure with an open west end has been partially destroyed by having the <br />western ends of the two side walls knocked down and pushed inward to form a pile of rubble <br />that encloses the eastern half of the interior of the feature. <br />The walls are constructed of unshaped blocks of local (Williams Fork Formation) <br />sandstone that range from 15cm in diameter to 50 x 30 x 19cm in size. The interior of what <br />remains of the dugout measures 9'0" east -west by 8'5" north -south. The walls are one stone <br />in thickness and up to eight courses (37") high. The dugout was partially dug into the talus <br />slope and, additionally, earth was piled up against the wall exteriors to the north and south. <br />The stones of the walls are set into the earthen faces of this excavation. The dugout likely <br />extended an additional five to nine feet to the west of where it has now been concentrated. <br />Feature 2, approximately 11 meters to the northwest of Feature 1, is a six-foot <br />diameter, circular, iron stock tank or "spring box" which is fed by water from an underground <br />source via a pipe. The wall of the tank extends approximately 18" above the present ground <br />surface. It remains undetermined as to whether this feature is contemporaneous, and <br />associated with, Feature 1. <br />Feature 3, approximately 13 meters to the southwest of Feature 1, is a 76 -foot in <br />diameter, circular, stock pond and low earthen dam situated in the bottom of the Jeffway <br />Gulch drainage. The pond, or stock tank, was full on the date of the documentation, and <br />being fed by a steady stream of water. Again, it remains undetermined as to relationship and <br />contemporaneity of this feature to the Feature 1 dugout. <br />Evaluation and Management Recommendations <br />The site has retained one of the seven aspects of integrity. It retains integrity of <br />Location; it is where it was originally constructed and used. It does not retain integrity of <br />Design; although the site has no unique elements, modern maintenance has altered the <br />original design. It does not retain integrity of Setting; the site is easily accessible and is not <br />visually shielded from existing modern intrusions by vegetation and topography. It does not <br />retain integrity of Materials; many portions of the site are original but several modern <br />materials have been introduced. It does not retain integrity of Workmanship; the site is not <br />unique and due to site deterioration, attributes of the structures' construction are not fully <br />