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Literature Rcvicrv <br />A files search was made through the Office of Archaeology and I-listoric Preservation <br />I of the Colorado Historical Society. Two surveys had been pcrlonned in the arcs. One was a <br />Class II (sampling) block survey for the Orchard Valley Mine involving 1200 acres that <br />included areas in adjacent sections (Baker 1984). Thirteen sites and live isolated finds were <br />recorded, a ratio of I site per 92.3 acres. The second was a survey conducted for the State <br />Flighway 133 Expansion liom l lotchkiss to the Paonia Dam (Gooding 1973). A total <br />acreage was not determined but only two sites were recorded. Both surveys documented the <br />~ town of Bowie as site SDT122. The original site recordings include only the town and not <br />~, the mine, although the two are inseparable in their history. A brief history of the mine and <br />town follow, which was extracted from a paper written by Robert P. Bowie and rVice B. <br />I Abseck, the son and daughter of f\Icxandcr Bowie (sec Appendix A). Alice, who now <br />~. resides in Paonia, provided dmis document and the photographs of the town and mine (Plates <br />l tlmrough 4). <br />The Juanita Coal and Cokc Company was originally incorporated in May 1902 at a <br />meeting held in Pueblo, Colorado. By 1903 buildings, including a boarding/bunkhousc, an <br />office and a mine managers home, were erected within the Bowie townsite. The town and <br />mine developed simultaneously. In 1906, the railroad was completed from Delta. The mine <br />• had a stable (with mules), a blacksmith shop and a steam plant pump. The tramway and <br />tipple from the mine was conmpletcd and tlme first coal delivered by mid-summer of 1907. <br />Over a nine year period (from 1906 to 1915), the company town grew to provide tenant <br />housing, services, education and recreation facilities. Tlmc mine added asteam-powered <br />ventilation fan in 191 I; a blacksmitlm slmop, powder Imousc and electric liglmt plant were added <br />in 1914 and an electric cutting machine in 1915. The brick power plant, which still stands, <br />was constructed in 1922. <br />The mine produced coal from 1903 until 1971, when it was sold to the Adolph Coors <br />Company (Coors) of Golden, Colorado. Its' highest production was in 1920 when 103,622 <br />tons of coal were produced by 1 10 men. Throughout the history of the mine, an average of <br />40 men were employed (Bowie and Abseck n.d.; Appendix A). <br />The worker residences in the town of Bowie were recorded as site SDT122 in 1977. <br />The silt was officially evaluated as eligible to the National Register of 1-listoric Places. <br />Shortly thereafter, some of the houses were moved intact and relocated; but the rest were <br />dismantled and sold as salvage Ittmber. Tlme old school house was moved to time town of <br />Paonia, where it has been restored as a part of a historical display. The three-story brick <br />Alexander Bowie !-louse was systematically torn down and completely rebuilt (1993) as a <br />private residence by Steve and Lisa West of Delta County. Coors later removed the King <br />Mine's tramway and tipple, and scaled the mine tunnel. At tlmis time, Coors donated some of <br />;~ <br />4 <br />