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• Two localities dating to the first quarter of the twentieth century, 5 Ja486 and k88, were recorded in the proposed Canadian Strip Mine Extension area. One recorded in January 1981, 5 Ja486, consists oS a mason jar and a narrow Lire mounted on a wire spoke wheel, located adjacent to an overgrown two-track road. The jar dates to ca. 1910 (Toulouse 1972), and it is likely that this locality represents the remains of a brief recreational or ranching activity that took place in the early 1900'x. The location of this resource on a ridge top suggests a low potential for additional buried remains at this locality (see Appendix A.iv). The other locality, 5 Ja488, is located near 5 Ja486 (Figure 2), and xae recorded in bla~q 1980, but not determined to be of historic vintage until January 1981 (Appendix A.i). This resource area appears to be a brie€ly util- ized dump for historic industrial artifacts, including bottles, food and to- bacco cans, crockery fragments, mason jar lids, harness parts, and pails. At least some of these artifacts (soldered seam cans and Ovens-machined bottles) were common between 1910 and 1920 (Berge 1980:36, ff.), though some items (crimped seam cans and cut antelope bone) suggest that this historic dump site • may have been utilized opportunistically during more recent times by hunters. There is no structural evidence of a habitation site in adjacent surveyed areas, and the exact nature or duration of the use of 5 Ja488 cannot be de- termined. The number of cans (approximately f{0) suggests repeated use of the locality, though a one-time dump of this historic component cannot be ruled out. Mary of the remains are partially buried in what ma,}c have been a shallow pit, but the likelihood of extensive subsurface deposits appears minimal based on upland topographic context where sediment aggradation is minor, the pre- sence of Pleistocene gravels on the ground surfaces, and the absence of related cultural remains in an adjacent two-track road. The proximity of 5 Ja486 and 1,88, the 'similarities of content and vin- tage, and the fact that these two resources are situated along the same road feature suggest a possible relationship between the two localities, though none can be demonstrated. It also seems probable that the two-track road near the localities, along with others in the vicinity, also dates to the early 1900'x. Prehistoric or aboriginal evidence in the Mine Plan azeas investigated by C&IC is lvnited to five isolated finds. A portion of the previously record- -7-