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• south of the present mining area in the SW/< of Section 31, T.47N, R.15W and the SE'/< of Section <br />36, T.47N, R.16W This tract is also primarily agricultural acreage; however, some smaller parcels <br />of undisturbed land occur. The six drill sites are randomly distributed to the west of Tracts II and IIA. <br />All of the survey areas lie on private property. <br />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 cenducted 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 presented <br />as attachments to the previous project report in which Tucker (1986) thoroughly outlined the effective <br />environment of the study area, outlined the work objectives, and described the survey methodology. <br />As a consequence, this information is not repeated in the attached reports. Any changes to the <br />previously stated methodology, survey area descriptions, and survey results are of course detailed <br />in the current reporting. The earlier site file search of the Colorado Inventory of Cultural Resources <br />was updated by a request to the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in March <br />1988. No known cultural resource sites are located in the survey areas. <br />57 <br />TRACT IIA SURVEY <br />This report discusses the field survey of the area known as Tract I IA This tract includes a drainage <br />• known as Calamity Draw (Figure 2.04.42), but it is extensively disturbed by habitation and <br />2.04.4 - 6 <br />