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i~ <br />AbSfI':ICt <br />Al the request of Dowie Resources, Ltd. (as represented by J.E. Stover and <br />Associates) and the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology and Office of Surface <br />Mining, a cultural resource inventory of approximately 830 acres within the Bowie #2 lvtine <br />impact area was conducted by Carl E. Conner and Barbara J. Davenport of Grand River <br />Institute. At that time 115 acres were intensively (Class Ill) inspected, and 715 acres were <br />intuitively (Class ll) sampled. The study area lies just north of the town of Bowie, in Delta <br />County, Colorado. <br />The survey was undertaken to ensure the project's compliance with state and federal <br />legislation governing the identification and protection of cultural resources on privately <br />owned lands that will be al7i cted by a ,~ovemment approved action. The purpose of the <br />cultural resources investigation was to identity resources within previously unsurveyed areas <br />likely to be affected by the proposed action, to evaluate these sites' eligibility for listing in <br />the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and to make management <br />• recommendations for those sites found to be eligible or potentially eligible. <br />A tiles search made through the Preservation Office of the Colorado State Historical <br />Society showed site SDT122, the historic mining [own of Bowie, was previously recorded <br />within the study area. This site was determined eligible by the Keeper of the National <br />Rcgistcr in 1979. <br />(:icld work was perlormed during the third and lourth weeks of September 1995. <br />The King Mine site associated with the town oFBowie was recorded as SDT1053. Also <br />recorded were one prehistoric site (~DTI050) and two isolated finds (SDTI051 and <br />SDTI052). "these were Held evaluated as not eligible for listing on the National Rcgistcr of <br />Historic Places. Historic sites SDT122 and SDT1053 were found to be heavily disturbed. <br />Only a Icw of the original buildings remain. Those that do however, still meet the criteria <br />for eligibility and should be preserved through methods that meet the Historic American <br />Buildings Survey and/or the Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) <br />documentation standards. <br />• <br />ii <br />