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DRMS Permit Index
Permit No
M2000053
IBM Index Class Name
Enforcement
Doc Date
7/8/2005
Doc Name
formal complaint letter
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dmg
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daneil ellison
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SURVEY OF AN OLD CEMETERY <br />LOCATED lIN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY <br />The cemetery under discussion is located on the south side of the Purgatoire River 12 <br />miles west of Trinidad, CO. I have been engaged by Mt. Frank Ruybalid who represents Mr. <br />Toby Espinoza in this matter. All three of us visited the site Friday morning April 8, 205. The <br />"observations" letter by Tony Waldron dated March I8, 2005 was reviewed and taken into <br />consideration for this inspection. The results are as follows: <br />The cemetery is an old cemetery, (perhaps 200 plus years old) where there are many <br />poorly marked graves, due mostly to the weathering and erosion of the headstones and removal <br />of some, probably due to vandalism. A one-strand barb wire fence has been erected around the <br />south and west sides in an apparent attempt to define these two sides of the cemetery. Just to the <br />east of the southwest comer is a grave approximately five feet from the fence and just north of <br />the of the southwest corner is a grave approximately ten feet from the west line of the fence. The <br />topsoil has been removed on the south and west sides of the cemetery, so it may be concluded <br />that the fence encloses all of the marked and unmazked graves. <br />The gravel pit just to the east of the cemetery exposes three to four feet of overburden and <br />possibly five feet ofgravel bed. The total thickness ofthe overburden and gravel can only be <br />estimated and Mr. Waldron has assumed an average of fifteen feet. The overburden, as seen in <br />the pit, does not contain any of pebbles or up to boulders in size found in the poorly sorted gravel <br />bed. This absence of gravels is also true in the huge piles of overburden which has been stripped <br />from the surface and piled for future use. The boulders and gravel now found on the surface of <br />the cemetery must have been put there since the gravels are not indigenous t0 the overburden. <br />The single boulders now present m the cemetery were probably used for headstones. Some still <br />have some markings on them. In other areas of the cemetery there are piles of these boulders and <br />gravels. When these piles are examined, a rectangulaz pattern of three feet by six feet is quite <br />evident. This rectangular placement of boulders was quite common in the past when these <br />boulders were placed on the grave mound of a freshly covered grave. This was done to prevent <br />predators from digging into the grave searching for corpses, especially one not buried in a <br />wooden casket. <br />There is another type of grave marker which is almost undetectable in the cemetery. <br />There are several slabs of thin bedded sandstones protruding from three to six inches above the <br />surface. These slabs were probably used as grave markers. The party using the sandstone slabs <br />was unaware that this type of rock is very susceptible to weathering. The remnants can still be <br />seen standing three to six inches above the ground, some maybe eroded below ground level and <br />lost forever, lk is in this general area that the southern one-strand fence has been lowered to the <br />ground and the north fence line has been cut in all strands so that a vehicle, perhaps a dirt <br />remover, as suggested by the fire cuts, drove across the cemetery in what seems as an attempt to <br />establish a road across the cemetery. <br />
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