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-4- sufficient personnel for the project, since the prospective crew members • could not be guaranteed employment without a contract in hand and several joined other projects. Field investigations began on 8 June 1975 at the Colowyo Mine site with a crew of four and Lischka supervising. The field crew during the first week included Joseph Lazio, Michael Burney, and Janet Pierson. Lazio had previously completed one season field experience in Nevada and Pierson spent the previous season working with Calvin Jennings in an in- ventory of the Cb oil shale tract in the Piceance Basin. Burney had no previous field experience but had completed extensive course work in archeology at the University of Colorado. Pierson had to leave at the end of the first week due to a prior commitment and two new crew members, Michael Hester and Kevin Darnall, were taken on. Hester had previously worked on several surveys of highway rights of way in the state with the Colorado State Highway Archeologist and Darnall had no previous archeological or anthropological training. The crew as then composed continued until the end of the field investigations with the exception of Darnall, who was dropped at the end of the third week. Field investigations with the • crew terminated on 11 July 1975 with the completion of the cultural re- sources inventory of the mine site and the railroad rights of way. Lischka returned to the Craig area for two days the following week to obtain needed information from the tax assessor's office at Craig concerning ownership of lands on which sites were located. A disturbed hearth at SMF444 was profiled, photographed and partially excavated and photographs were takeh of the pictographs remaining at sites SMF289 and SMF281/436. The inventory of the paleontological resources of the study area was subcontracted to Judith Van Couvering, Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado and the field work was conducted by Kenneth Carpenter under indirect supervision of Van Couvering. Van Couvering visited the project area at the end of Carpenter's field investigation to review the paleontological evidence he had inventoried. All artifactual materials and photographs taken or collected during the cultural resources inventory are on file in the Archeological Section of the University of Colorado Museum. Original copies of the site survey forms are to be kept in the files of the Office of the State Archeologist •- Hof Colorado, Ketchum SA, University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.