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• P ~ POWERS ELEVA <br />O <br />C <br /> E, <br />TI <br />N <br />OMPANY. INC. <br /> ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVISION <br /> A <br />Comd~b Ncnaeobp¢al ConauinnB Sw¢ea <br /> C O. BOa '1B9 <br /> EaBi/. Colaaco 616] I <br /> ]a]aze nn <br /> Project Identif>_ca tion: Energy Fuels and Herr Coal, Colorado <br /> Prei.m inary Report. This investigation confcrms with the reouir em ents <br /> of Executive Order 11593 and applicable historic preservation laws. <br /> Antiquities Permit No.: 79-CO-023 <br /> Date of Investigation: October 11-18, 1979 <br /> Location/Description: Block survey of 680 acres of prospective coal <br /> lease tract on federal lands as follows: T9h7, R78[~7, Secticn 22, <br /> Nw ;, [J'; NE ;, SE; NE :, Wt5 SE4: pection 26, NS•7y S[4;, SE; S[J ;; Section 27, <br /> EI5 NE ;, SE :, JaC kson County, Colorado. <br /> Map Reference: Gould NW and Johnny Moore !•fo untain, 7.5' series <br /> USGS Ruadrangle. <br /> File Search: A files search conducted by htr. Tom hlanabe at the <br /> Kremmling Resource Area Office of the BL^t indicates that numerous <br /> previous surveys have taken place in the general area for oil and <br /> gas locations and coal leases, but none of the specific tracts <br /> ccvered by this study have received previous survey. Likewise, <br /> several prehistoric and historic sites have been recorded near the <br /> study area by various investigators including the Laboratory of <br /> Public Archaeology at Colorado State University, and the North Park <br /> Project of the Lin iversi ty of Cole rado. No previously recorded sites <br /> or sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places are <br />• located in the study tracts. <br /> Env.ronment: The survey area lies in a high mountain park, worth <br /> Park, a major feature of north central Colorado. All of the lease <br /> tracts lie on a broken to rolling divide between the Canadian River <br /> on the east and the Plichigan River on the west. Both streams are <br /> tributary to the North Platte River. Terrain within the survey <br /> blocks varies from relatively flat uplands in Section 2?, to steep <br /> ridges and hills in the southern sections. The areas drain into <br /> the Canadian River via northeasterly flowing washes, Bush Draw, <br /> [4illiams Draw, and an unnamed tributary of [•7i lliams Draw. The major <br /> washes are fairly open intermittent streams with seeps along their <br /> courses. <br />Vegetation covers 10-305 of the ground with the around visibility <br />considered good. The survey area lies primarily in an upland grass- <br />sagebrush steppe. Vegetation along the washes tends toward a higher <br />grass to sagebrush proportion. Other species include prickly pear <br />and forties of various sorts, but shrubs and trees are absent. <br />The soils in the area are almost uniformly sanc_v to sa r.dy clays with <br />a thin mantle of pebble sized stones of fluvial oriein. On ridges <br />lag pebbles and cobbles are more preva le nr than in *_he draws. Soils <br />in the draws are deeper, but similar in character, with old soil <br />surfaces exposed in cuts. <br /> <br />