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~J <br />at the mine until 1956 when mechanization finally replaced all but one of these sturdy <br />animals. <br />Black powder used in the mine was stored in the powder house. Built in 1914, it is <br />existing and in good condition. It is a one-story 20 by 20-foot-square concrete building with <br />a steel roof, and is located in a small drainage west of the shop. All that remains of the shop <br />area is a foundation measuring about SO feet by 45 feet. <br />A complex that contained a hoist house, a small hoist shed, a building for asteam- <br />powered ventilation fan, a water tower, and a mule barn made ttp the mine portal area. The <br />hoist house (about 35 by 30 feet) and foundation for the fan/Itousing (about 30 by 60 feet) <br />are still existing. Nlttles were used in the mine until 1956; however, slopes in the mine were <br />so steep that the mules could not pull a loaded car. In 1909 a steam engine-powered hoist <br />was added to pull cars front those areas. The steam-powered ventilation fan was installed in <br />the east air course in 191 I. Prior to that ventilation was provided by a furnace and stack in <br />the west air course. <br />Management Recommendation: In general, the mine site has been heavily disturbed over the <br />past 10 years and it lacks integrity of location and association. Of the remaining buildings-- <br />the hoist house, the power plant, the mule barn, the powder house and the sales house--the <br />power plant and hoist house are community landmarks that are in relatively good structural <br />condition. They meet criteria a) and c) of Title 36 CFR 60.6,and as significant parts of the <br />mine are field evaluated as eligible for listing on the NRHP. Both should be preserved by <br />_, recording methods that meet the Historic American Buildings Survey and/or the Historic <br />American Engineering Record (F(ABS/IiAER) documentation standards. The coal mining <br />activities a[ Bowie were significant in terms of making immediate and lasting contributions to <br />_ the economic, industrial and demographic character of the region. Coal mining was the <br />reason for the formation oftlte local economy, and is an integral and long-lived part of the <br />economic stability of the county and state. <br />~~ Site 5DTt050 is a small prehistoric open lithic scatter located on a pinyon/juniper- <br />IJ wooded ridge spine at elevation 6050 feet. The site overlooks a deeply cut drainage that <br />contains the powder house for the old King lvtine. It consists of less than ten artifacts within <br />an area measuring approximately I Om N-S by 4m E-W in diameter. Artifacts include 4 large <br />:~ siltstone Flakes (1 primary), 2 large mudstone Flakes, and I small quartzite Flake. These <br />indicate lithic processing of local river cobbles. <br />'•~ The site is undisturbed, but the soils appear to be shallow. Subsurface cultural <br />deposits are not likely. Accordingly, the site is field evaluated as not eligible. <br />~~ _~~ <br />.~ <br />c~ <br />