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From: Joseph J. Lischka <br />• Bureau of Anthropological Research <br />Department of Anthropology <br />University of Colorado <br />Boulder, Colorado 8030'L <br />To: E.A. Jackson, Jr. <br />Antiquities Coordinator <br />VTN Colorado, Inc. <br />2600 S. Parker Road <br />Parker Place Four <br />Denver, Colorado 80232 <br />Subject: Addendum to "Cultural and Paleontological Resource Inventory <br />and Evaluation of the Proposed W.R. Grace & Co. Railroad <br />Corridors and Colowyo Mine Site, Moffat County, Colorado". <br />An inventory of the cultural and paleontological resources of an <br />additional area at the proposed W.R. Grace Colowyo Mine site in Moffat <br />County was conducted on September 19 and Z0, 1975. The area surveyed consists <br />of approximately 5/8 of Section 11, T3N, R93W. The area surveyed is shown <br />on the enclosed map. The cultural resource inventory was carried out by <br />the principal investigator, Joseph J. Lischka, and an assistant, Andrea <br />• Garstle, who has one summer's field experience in arcFeological survey and <br />laboratory analysis. The paleontological inventory was conducted by Allen <br />Kihm, a graduate student associated with the paleontological section of <br />the University of Colorado Museum. <br />No evidence of prehistoric or historic occupation or activities was <br />encountered during the cultural resources inventory of the subject area. <br />The lack of prehistoric or historic occupation in the area essentially <br />reflects the low occupation density of the rest of the previously <br />inventoried Colowyo mine site. Kihm found no paleontological remains in <br />the subject area itself. Two fragments of dinosaur bone, however, were <br />found just east of the subject area in the NEB of the NWT of the NE4 of <br />Section 11. The fossilized bone fragments were found among loose rocks <br />of medium grained, red-brown sandstone from the Williams Fork Formation <br />(Late Cretaceous, Campanian age). There was no further material found <br />upslope into the subject area. The presence of the bone fragments <br />reinforces the opinion expressed in the original report that vertebrate <br />remains will be found during mining operations. At the present time the <br />• <br />