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2023 Cultural Resource Site Assessments for Collom Expansion Project Colowyo <br />Tetra Tech June 2023 15 <br />For Official Use Only: Disclosure of Site Locations Prohibited (43 CFR 7.18) <br /> <br /> Figure 9. Site 5MF.4006 overview, facing north. Taken by E. Shikrallah on 5/17/2023. <br />NRHP Status and Condition Assessment <br />In 1995, Site 5MF.4006 was recommended as needing more data by Metcalf Archaeological <br />Consultants. BLM Little Snake Field Office concurred in 2001 and TRC agreed in 2005. Tetra <br />Tech also agrees based on its 2015, 2019, and 2023 revisits. Additional information about the <br />site can most likely be obtained through Native American consultation. No changes or impacts <br />were noted during the 2023 revisit. The site should continue to be avoided by any proposed mining <br />related activities pending Native American consultation. <br />5MF.4008 – Historic Homestead and Prehistoric Lithic Scatter, Eligible under Criteria A & <br />C <br />Site 5MF.4008 was originally recorded in 1995 by Metcalf Archaeological Consultants for the <br />Colowyo Coal Company Lease and Exploration Areas: Class III Cultural Resource Inventory <br />project. The site consists of a historic homestead and a prehistoric component of two lithic flakes. <br />As originally reported, the homestead is composed of three standing buildings (Features 1, 2, and <br />4) and two ruins (Feature 3 and 5). The homestead is associated with George W. Wright who <br />patented the land in 1920. Feature 1 is a milled lumber outhouse. Feature 2 is a log cabin that <br />was used as a storage shed or workshop. Feature 3 is the remains of a stick-built brick and wood <br />house that appears to have burned down sometime in the modern era. Feature 4 is a pump house <br />with an electric pump. Feature 5 is the remains of a small log building that is theorized to be an <br />outhouse. The generalized associated historic artifact scatter consists of bottle and window glass, <br />aluminum cans, ceramic fragments, wire nails, and an assortment of domestic items. Several <br />corrals and fences occur throughout the site along with a few utility poles and a metal gasoline <br />storage drum. The site has been revisited since the original recordation. It was revisited in 2005 <br />by TRC as part of the Collom Mine Expansion Class III Inventory project and in 2015 by Tetra