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• As noted, these project areas are designated as probable future mining areas. The drill site <br />locations are exploratory in nature and will be drilled in 1988. Overland access routes to these six <br />locations will be less than 50 feet in width and less than one acre will be needed for the actual drill <br />pad site. Projected mining areas are shown on Map 2.05.3-1, Operations Plan -New Horizon 2. <br />Reconnaissance level and intensive field surveys were conducted intermittently, depending upon <br />weather conditions, by the author between March 7 and 25, 1988. No artifactual materials were <br />collected and resulting field notes and photographic files are located at Nickens and Associates' <br />office in Montrose. <br />At the request of Peabody Coal Company, separate cultural resource reports are being submitted <br />for each of the two survey tracts and for the six drill sites. Since this work represents a continuation <br />of previous cultural resource efforts on this project, the reporting of the field results will be <br />presented as attachments to the previous project report in which Tucker (1986) thoroughly outlined <br />the effective environment of the study area, outlined the work objectives, and described the survey <br />methodology. As a consequence, this information is not repeated in the attached reports. Any <br />changes to the previously stated methodology, survey area descriptions, and survey results are of <br />course detailed in the current reporting. The earlier site file search of the Colorado Inventory of <br />Cultural Resources was updated by a request to the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic <br />• Preservation in March 1988. No known cultural resource sites are located in the survey areas. <br />TRACT IIA SURVEY <br />This report discusses the field survey of the area known as Tract IIA. This tract includes a drainage <br />known as Calamity Draw (Figure 2.04.4-2), but it is extensively disturbed by habitation and <br />agricultural activities. Vehicular reconnaissance revealed almost no pristine ground surface within <br />the tract; nearly all of it had been leveled and/or cultivated. A significant portion of the land along <br />the drainage is swampy in nature and supports a dense growth of grasses which obscures the <br />ground surface. A small area of about five acres was inspected at the very northward end of the <br />tract. <br />RESULTS <br />No significant historic or prehistoric resource properties were located in Tract IIA. Extant farms do <br />not have an appearance of historical significance. One collapsed cellar and an associated trash <br />scatter was observed near the west end of the westward extending ann of the tract; however, the <br />structure and trash are apparently less than fifty years of age. Two car bodies of greater age are <br />• (Revised July 2006) <br />2.04.4-7 <br />