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13 Informant Interview • Mr. Robert Pazsons was contacted by the author, by phone, on November 21, 1996. Mr. Pazsons was raised on the Lorencito Canyon Mine property, prior to its acquisition by the current owners. He is the third generation to have lived in the immediate area, and was raised at the former ranch headquarters located in Lorencito Canyon several miles above the project area. The purpose of this initial contact was to Team more about several historic sites found in the project area. SLA6994 is a log cabin and associated features, located at the P1/P2 box cut survey block. This site has been referred to as the Pazsons Cabin, but this is appazently something of a misnomer. According to Mr. Parsons, this cabin was built by Hazl Bramlet in the late 1880s or 1890s. The cabin and the property were sold by the Bramlet family to Mr. Pazsons's father in 1912 or 1913. No Pazsons ever occupied the cabin. Mr. Parsons reports that a ranch hand, George Allen, lived in it for a few years after his father acquired it, but otherwise served mostly as a place to store feed for livestock. SLA7186 is the remains of an adobe structure and associated features, located within the load out survey block at the mouth of Lorencito Canyon. Mr. Parsons reports that this site was referred to as the Jeff Place, named after Jeff Andrews (also the namesake of Jeff Canyon just to the southwest). It was probably built in the 1870s or 1880s and is reported to have served as a halfway house or stage stop along an old wagon road that extended up the Picketwire Valley. Mr. Pazsons's father ran a freighting operation that transported goods up Lorencito Canyon to • Vermejo Pazk (where he had homesteaded). The road up Lorencito Canyon appazently branched off from the Picketwire Valley road at this site. Mr. Pazsons reported that there used to be two big barns at this site where stock was exchanged as freight teams came through. No evidence of these barns was found. The site was appazently still in use as late as about 1935. Mr. Parsons was also queried about the several stone structures found during the archaeological inventory (SLA6982 and SLA6983) and does not recall that he or any of his family constructed these. He presumes they are Indian. Mr. Parsons reported that he had found a "white stone figurine" in a cave near the head of Chimney Canyon. This would probably be above the R3/R4 portal survey block. No field confirmation of this possible site was attempted, although there is at least one cliff band noted high in Chimney Canyon, exposed best on the north canyon wall. Mr. Pazsons indicated he had found a whole ceramic vessel that was sent to Texas A & M University and radiocarbon dated to 3400 years B.P., and that he has found at least one Folsom point in the area. All of the information provided by Mr. Pazsons is currently unconfirmed, but there is no contradictory evidence present at this time except that the radiocarbon date on the ceramic vessel would appeaz to be considerably older than expected. Native American Consultation Native American consultation has been initiated by MAC. Consultation was deemed . appropriate with the discovery of a possible eagle trap or vision quest site within the project area.