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~E ARCHEOLOGY <br />Two archeological studies of the Bourg property and the haul <br />road were commissioned. The second of these studies also included <br />the ranch roads shown in Plate 1 on either side or the proposed <br />haul road, in case an alternate route for the haul road was necessary. <br />Both reports, done under the supervision of Professor Joseph J. <br />Lischka, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, are <br />attached as Appendix C. <br />The first report concluded, "Considering all of the above <br />information obtained from the archaeological survey, the Bourg <br />Coal property and the two access roads studied do not contain <br />significant cultural resources." The second report suggested <br />that the ranch road paralleling the proposed haul road on the <br />northeast not be used as the haul road due to some small stone <br />circles. It reported also that the field worker recorded the <br />McCallum Mine, which is located on the Bourg property (Plate 1 ), <br />in the State Historical Register. This was done to fulfill the <br />law that requires registering all mines over 50 years old, and <br />not to suggest that the mine be preserved. <br />The McCallum Mine was examined by A. L. Beekly and written <br />up as follows in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 596, dated 1915: <br />McCallum Mine. The McCallum mine is about 5 miles <br />northeast of Walden, in the NW4, Sec. 18, T9N, which <br />in this locality strikes N. 55° W. and dips 20° NE. <br />At the time of the field work on which the present report <br />is based the mine consisted of a slope driven down the <br />dip of the coal bed for 50 feet, beyond which it is widened <br />into a room with a nearly horizontal floor extending about <br />50 feet farther in the direction of dip. This room is of <br />irregular shape, 20 to 25 feet wide and about 10 to 12 feet <br />high, and is crudely timbered. No particular system of <br />mining had been followed and the mine is in bad shape for <br />further work. The slope and room were driven in the middle <br />of the coal bed, which is reported 35 feet thick, so that <br />the roof and floor are of coal. The exposed portion of <br />the bed consists of fairly black coal, practically free <br />of partings but showing considerable fracturing, no doubt <br />B-1 <br />