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The vegetation consists of oak brush, sagebrush, serviceberry, and grasses. The site is <br />underlain by Cretaceous age sandstone, shale, and major coal beds of the Williams Fork <br />formation. Soil on the site is light brown clay loam of at least 50cm, as exposed in nearby cut <br />banks. These well drained soils are formed from residuum and colluvium derived from <br />sedimentary rocks and are composed of Herperus fine sandy loam (up to 1.5m deep), found <br />on hills and plateaus, and Ustorthents, frigid-Borolls complex (up to 70cm deep), found on <br />the footslope and backslope of mountainsides (USDA NRCS 2004). The nearest source of <br />water is 300m west at Deacon Gulch and the nearest permanent water is 1830m to the south- <br />southeast at Jeffway Gulch. <br />The segment was first recorded in 2012 by Grand River Institute (Conner, et al. <br />2012). It was described as: <br />The wagon road segment consists of an old road bed that travels from <br />the existing county road downslope to the northwest, makes a hairpin curve, <br />and meets again with the existing county road. Northwest of the apex of the <br />curve is the trash scatter. The historic road bed appears to be an abandoned <br />segment of a loop that was cut off when Moffat County Road 33 was created. <br />This old road section measures approximately 3.0 - 4.Om (10-13 feet) in width <br />and 465m (1525 feet) in length. A two -track road extends from the trash <br />scatter north to access the ridge top and a third shorter length of two -track <br />heads west from the trash scatter for 35m (115 feet). There is evidence that <br />mechanical manipulation was involved in the creation of the road, as the bed <br />is relatively level in comparison to the natural slope on which it lies. This <br />road bed segment has not been utilized by vehicular traffic for some time as <br />the sagebrush and grasses have grown back. No ruts were visible. <br />The trash scatter is a concentration of historic trash that measures 5.5m <br />(19 feet) north -south by 9m (31 feet) east -west and consists of approximately <br />150-200 items that are visible on the ground surface. There is no evidence <br />that a pit or trench had been excavated as a receptacle for the trash; it merely <br />appears to have been thrown onto the ground surface. In addition to the trash <br />concentration, three other apparently associated artifacts were found on the <br />access road to the southeast: a fragment of decorative red cut glass, a rusted <br />and flattened rectangular can (similar in style to a tobacco tin but too large in <br />size, yet too small for a standard gun powder tin), and another rusted and <br />flattened sanitary food can. <br />The artifacts represented in the trash scatter consist of domestic refuse <br />(primarily food cans and bottles) from approximately the 191 Os and 20s to the <br />1940s or 50s. Several of the glass fragments have been melted by heat; <br />however, not as many to suggest that the scatter itself had been fired. Very <br />21 <br />