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• Euro-American incursion into the area. Removal of the Utes in 1881 freed the valley of the <br />North Fork of the Gunnison for agricultural development, railroad construction, and <br />permanent settlement. By the mid-1880's this alluvial valley had been found suitable for fruit <br />growing. Valley hay production combined with summer range in the surrounding mountains <br />aided the establishment of a prosperous livestock industry until a severe winter kill in 1893 <br />reduced many of the herds. The construction of an extension of the D&RG Railroad into the <br />North Fork Valley by 1902 (as far as Paonia) aided fruit growers and cattlemen. Additional <br />track laid into Somerset in subsequent years (by 1906) initiated the coal mining boom. <br />Overviews of the history of the region are provided in the Colorado Historical Society's <br />publication entitled Colorado Plateau Country Historic Context {Husband 1984) and in the <br />Bureau of Land Management's publication Frontier in Transition (O'Rourke 1980). <br />r ~ <br />U <br />Table 1: Previously conducted cultural resoarce projects within aad near the project <br />area. <br />State ID Re rt Title <br /> Title: Class III (intensive) cultural resources inventory of three 40- <br />(Unnumbered) acre blocks in association with a proposed new road to the lease lands <br /> east of Terror Creek as part of the Bowie Resources, Ltd. exploration <br /> plans in Delta County, CO <br /> Author. Carl E. Commer <br /> Contractor: Grand River Institute <br /> Date: June 2004 <br />DT.LM.NR128 Title: Class III Cultural Resource Inventory for Two Proposed Road <br /> Rights-of--Ways in Delta County, Colorado for Bowie Resources Ltd. <br /> Author. Carl E. Conner <br /> Contractor. Grand River Institute <br /> Date: June 2003 <br />DT.LM.R26 Title: Class III Cultural Resource Inventory & Paleontological <br /> Assessment Report for 1640 Acres of BLM Administered Lands <br /> Within the Iron Point Coal Lease Tract (COC-61209) in Delta County, <br /> Colorado for Bowie Resources, Ltd. <br /> Author: Carl E. Conner, <br /> Contractor: Grand River Institute <br /> Date: August 2000 <br />DT.LM.O Title: Orchard Valley Mine <br /> Author. Steven G. Baker <br /> Contractor. Centuries Research. <br /> Date; June 1977 <br />