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7 <br /> <br />6) The mine has been recorded in two government reports. <br />The earliest report is entitled "Geology and Coal Re- <br />sources of North Park, Colorado". It was published in <br />1915 by the United States~Geological Survey as its Bul- <br />letin 596. The United States Geological Survey has more <br />recently conducted drillings near the Sudduth mine during <br />an inventory of the coal lands in North Park. Results <br />of this investigation are contained in the Open File Re- <br />port 77-888-1977, available in the Federal Center Build- <br />ing, Denver, Colorado; <br />7) Individuals have taken some coal from the mine in recent <br />years, and have probably removed many of the metal ob- <br />jects (such as coal cars, wheels, and scrap metal) as <br />souvenirs. As a matter of fact, no scrap metal was re- <br />corded at the site by the archeological surveyors. <br />Most of the Facts given above were obtained through conversations <br />with Mr. Sudduth. tdhile realizing that memories grow dim with time, it <br />• can still be maintained that the mine was a "jack" mine with a rela- <br />tively short history, say 1885 to 1930, or 45 years, at the most. Cul- <br />tural activities were limited to mining; no one lived at the mine <br />site. The coal seam was extracted by manual rather than mechanical <br />methods for the most part, although some mechanical assistance was <br />used to mine coal. Evidence of the specific technical aspects of the <br />extraction process is no longer present at this site. <br />Summary and Recommendations <br />Archeological survey of the 160 acres designated the Std' of <br />Section 15, T9N, R78td produced very little evidence of cultural re- <br />sources. Three isolated finds (IF 305, 306, and 307) and one historic <br />• site (SJA333) were recorded during the survey. The three isolated <br />