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• <br />On the west side of the community were the school buildings and baseball diamond. <br />The north-most school was atwo-room frame building with acut-stone foundation. This has <br />been moved to Paonia and restored. The second school was built in 1920 to supplement the <br />overllow of students during the height of mining operations. it served grades 5 through 8 <br />and lead a full, concrete basement. The basement held a small stage, and community <br />activities were conducted there. This building was moved to the southeast part of the town <br />lying south of Highway 133. <br />To the east and north ~cere three larger buildings: a frame mine office, a concrete <br />garage/shop building, and athree-story brick home (built for Alexander Bowie in 191 1). <br />"I'hc garage for the Bowie "mansion" was north of the top tier of houses. A water tower was <br />built on the slope north ol'the residences. The Alexander Bowie house was systematically <br />taken down and rebuilt as a residence (1993), which is located about half-way between <br />I-lotchkiss and Paonia on the south side of the river. <br />Management Recommendation: This site was officially evaluated as eligible for the <br />i National Register of Historic Places on 25 June 1979. Since that time, site ~DT122 has been <br />heavily disturbed. Only a lew of the original buildings remain: the mine office, the adjacent <br />garage building, and the Bowie residence garage. These buildings are still in good condition <br />and meet the criteria for elieibility. They should be preserved by recording methods that <br />~_ • meet the Historic American Buildings Survey and/or the Historic American C•ngineering <br />~ Record (1-IABS/[IACR) documentation standards. <br />i- <br />!~ Site SDT10>3 is the King Mine of Bowie. It is located on a terrace on the north side <br />_ of the North Fork of the Gunnison River about 300 meters east of the original townsite of <br />Bowie. The mine buildings arc within an area measuring approximately 500 meters N-S by <br />`'~ 200 meters G-W (Figure 3). The lower building complex is on a river terrace at elevation <br />J : 5980 leer, while the mine portal complex is on asouth-facing mountain slope at 6590 feet <br />elevation. Muclt of the following description of the site and chronological information is <br />n extracted liom a paper written by Robert P. Bowie and his cousin Alice B. Abseck (see <br />~J Appendix A). <br />The mine was owned by the Juanita Coal and Coke Company incorporated in 1902 in <br />Pueblo, Colorado. That year the company purchased land six miles east of Paonia because <br />of the proposed extension into the area of'the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The mine <br />~~ took its name from A.T. King a corporation director and/or his brother FLB. King, the <br />' second general manager ol'the mine. In 1906, Alexander Bowie invested in the Juanita Coal <br />,,~ and Coke Company, and was hired as the general manager. Tltat same year the railroad was <br />completed as a broad-gauge line from Delta. In July of 1907, the tramway was completed <br />~1~~• 19 <br />d] <br />t~ <br />