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evident. It does not retain integrity of Association; it is not physically associated with any <br />other historic sites and it cannot spatially contribute to any future research on ranching or <br />settlement patterns in the Jeffway Gulch Creek drainage during the Historic Period. The site <br />also lacks integrity of Feeling; a modern road alongside the site, the use of modern materials <br />and the partial destruction of the dugout has compromised the historic feeling. <br />The site provides no evidence of association to a specific person or time period in <br />history (Criteria A and B). It lacks the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method <br />of construction, or that represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values or <br />that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual <br />distinction (Criterion Q. The site does not have the potential to yield additional data <br />important in history (Criterion D) and it is therefore field evaluated as not eligible for <br />inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). No further work is needed at <br />the site. <br />Site 5MF7765.1 is a segment of historic telegraph or telephone line and associated <br />fence. The site is in the Transitional Zone at an elevation ranging from 7060 to 7200 feet. It <br />is situated on the northern slopes of the Williams Fork Mountains. The site is vegetated with <br />dense serviceberry, Gamble oak, and saltbush, with an understory of sagebrush, yarrow, <br />snakeweed, aster, wild rose, thistle, and Indian paintbrush. Ground visibility was <br />approximately 80 percent on the day of recording. The colluvial and residual soils consist of <br />brown -to -light brown sandy and clayey loams of varying depths of less than 20cm to more <br />than a meter as visible in the nearby road and drainage cuts. The area is currently used for <br />coal mining, hunting, and cattle grazing. <br />The linear site measures 930 meters in length, north -south. The site consists of a series <br />of standing and collapsed wood telephone or telegraph poles which were manufactured at a <br />different location and brought in to their present location. Several of the pine poles retain <br />one or two of the threaded wood pegs or spools near the top for the placement of glass <br />insulators, several of which remain in place on the pegs. In certain cases, short sections of <br />the single, unwrapped, 0.1" diameter wire remain attached to the insulators. It is obvious that <br />a majority of the wire has been cut and removed from the poles, however, several longer <br />sections of wire can be seen resting on the ground surface beneath the poles. The line of <br />poles disappears at both the northern and southern ends of the recorded segment. The <br />standing poles range from approximately 15 to 18 feet tall, and from 4%z to 5'h inches in <br />diameter. <br />A fence line constructed of juniper posts and hog wire runs beneath the row of poles, <br />however the association and/or contemporaneity of the two features has not been established. <br />The fence line branches off of the northern end of the telegraph line and runs east toward <br />historic homestead site 5MF7763, and it is possible that the telephone/telegraph line once <br />followed the fence and serviced this habitation. No portable artifacts were found in <br />39 <br />