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Site/Property Reevaluation Form (continued) <br />Page 2 of 2 <br />State Site # SRT113 <br />Temporary # MM-5112 <br />6. Changes in site condition since the previous site/property recording The buildings have been <br />dismantled and the debris has been placed in piles around the periphery of the site. <br />7. Changes to previous site location or size information None <br />8. Changes in site/property ownership since previous site recording When the site was originally <br />recorded in 1978, the property was privately owned by Energy Fuels. Currently, the property is privately <br />owned by Twentymile Coal Company. <br />9. Other changes, additions or observations The site has debris associated with the house scattered <br />around it in concentrations. The main house is located on the north edge of the Fish Creek floodplain. To <br />the north is the toe of an east/west trending ridge. At the top of the ridge in a very prominent location is an <br />old tractor, whose body has been removed, with farm machinery attached. The machinery appears to be a <br />thresher. North and downslope of the tractor in a shallow intermittent drainage is a scattered dump where <br />the household appliances were placed. Included in these is an old mechanized washing machine, rollers <br />included, the green enamel-ware body of the gas stove, bed springs, and four more threshers. West of the <br />house, along the base of the ridge, are large tabular slabs of sandstone that do not appeaz to be in any pattern <br />or formation. They are not natural to the floodplain, but there is no indication from what part of the <br />homestead they came. <br />10. National Register eligibility assessment: <br />eligible X not eligible _ need data <br />ezplain: The site retains no structural integrity. Although the site was homesteaded in the 1880s, none <br />of the structures dating to that period are currently standing and there is no evidence of their location. The <br />buildings recorded in 1978, most of which appear to have been a later occupation, have all been dismantled <br />or are deteriorated beyond recognition. All that remains of the structures are several debris piles that consist <br />primarily of the construction materials from the dismantled buildings. No other artifact classes were noted <br />which could give information on the financial and social status, or the family and living conditions of the <br />Butler brothers at the turn of the century. This site was originally recommended to be not eligible for <br />inclusion on the National Register and MAC concurs with this recottunendation. <br />11. Management Recommendations The site is recommended to be not eligible, therefore, no further <br />archaeological work is recommended. <br />12. Photographs No. Roll # 99-46, exp. 12-24; roll # 99-47, exp. 2-7 <br />13. Artifact and field documentation storage location Office of the Colorado Historical Society <br />14. Report title Cyprus Twentymile Coal Company PDS-9901, 9902, 9903, 9904, & 9905 Core Holes and <br />Seismic Lines 9901, 9902, & 9903 Class III Cultural Resource Inventory, Routt County, Colorado by <br />Dulaney Barclay and Stephanie Slaughter <br />15. Recorder(s) D. Barclay, S. Slaughter Date 6-11-99 <br />17. Recorder Affiliation Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. <br />