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• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 05 CULTURAL RESOURCES REPORT 7
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Gunter married Betty Brown, daughter of Samual T. Brown, a prominent sheep rancher and
businessmen involved in establishing the First National Bank in Trinidad, as we[I as the South
' Methodist Church. Brown Sheep Camp is a ranch site located in the middle Purgatoire region within
the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS). This ranch was owned by Brown, and later by J. C.
' Gunter, who inherited it from his father-in-law (Friedman 1985:225-228).
The next entry entailed a Treasurer's Deed to B. B. Sipe for $12.61 and assigned certificate
' of sale to Fred Herrington for half interest (72 %z ac.) (Book 114:3).
The next entry occurred in 1901 and entailed a Quit Claim Deed from John Osgood to Fred
' Herrington on September 21, 1901. It was part of a large sale that included:
Also such part of the E.'/: of the N.E.I/4 of Section 4 and the N.W.1/4 of N.W.I/4 of Section 3,
' Township 34, South of Range 66 West as lies South of the North line of and within the Beaubien and
Miranda Grant as patented. (Book ] 0:182) [This tract includes the location of SLA7186.]
' The next entry occurred on March 15, 1902, when Fred Herrington relinquished the "E1/2
of NEI/4 of Section 4 NWl/4 of NW]/4 of Section 3 - T34 R66" to T. J. Andrews using a Quit
Claim Deed.

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From here, the record of ownership is picked up through informant sources and information
provided by the current owner. Robert (Bob) Pazsons, a member of the Pazsons family who aze the
most recent former owners, referred to the site as the "Jeff Place," named after Jeff Andrews.
Presumably, this is the same Andrews as T. J. Andrews, noted in the Mazch 15, 1902, entry just
mentioned. It is also assumed that Jeff Canyon, and Little Jeff Canyon, both tributaries to Lorencito
Canyon just south of the site, aze named for this Jeff. Mr. Parsons reports that Jeff Andrews owned
the property and ran it as a halfway house for ttavelers on the wagon road along the Purgatoire River.
Mr. Parsons also reports that his father began a freighting operation in Lorencito Canyon,
transporting goods from the Picketwire Valley, south into Vermejo Pazk in New Mexico, via a
wagon road that went up Lorencito Canyon? Mr. Parsons indicated there were two lazge barns used
to house livestock and freight teams on the site, in addition to the adobe residence. Parsons believes
the house was built in the 1870s or 1880s and was used into the 1930s (Bob Parsons, 1996, personal
communication to McKibbin). The presence of cut nails supports the eazly dates of construction ca.
1870s-1890s. The use of wire nails and tin roofing supports the ca. 1930s terminal date.
Mr. Sid Bayes, the ranch manager for the F. E. Hill Company, the present property owners,
indicates that a "Foes" or "Fonce" Trujillo was one of the last occupants of the site, and is still alive
and resides in Trinidad (Sid Bayes, 1997, personal communication to Kelly J. Pool, Metcalf
Archaeological Consultants). There is an Alphonso Trujillo listed in the current Trinidad phone
directory. Mr. Trujillo has not been contacted.
The F. E. Hill Company is the present owner of the property. They aze headquartered in
Fairfield, Texas. They acquired this property, among some 17,000 acres, from the Pazsons family
Z Lorencito Canyon is shown as Largo Canyon on an 1885 map of the region.