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<br />' By 1882 the Engl Ranch was declared to be the best in the valley: <br />"the number of springs which line bluffs on either side of the. <br />narrow valley, make it almost as productive as if under a good <br />' irrigation ditch" (Marr 1983:62). George Engl married Louisa <br />Roracher after the death of his first wife. After Engl's death <br />in 1896, Louisa married Charles Bruess. They continued to <br />develop prized Shorthorn cattle. Later they sold the ranch to <br />' their nephew Josef Winkler. <br />With the growth of agriculture came the need for irrigation. The <br />' Colorado Assembly considered the proposal to build a dam on <br />Cherry Creek in 1889, but this failed. A private group called <br />the Denver Water Storage Company, got financial backing to build <br />the dam. The dam was completed in 1890. The dam was leaking by <br />' 1891, and a section was washed out in 1897. Repairs were made, <br />but by 1901 there was no water in the reservoir for irrigation <br />purposes. <br />In 1902 the dam was acquired by the Denver Sugar, Land, and <br />Irrigation Company and repairs were made. Ever since the dam had <br />been built, people in Denver feared that it would break and flood <br />' Denver. In 1933, this event happened. Following a series of <br />summer rainstorms, the dam broke at 1:20 a.m. on August 3, 1933. <br />It flooded hundreds of acres of farmland and hit Denver at 7:00 <br />' a.m., ripping out bridges, causing S1 million in damages, and <br />taking 2 lives. <br />IDENTIFICATION OBJECTIVES <br />t Recent archaeological investigations have revealed significant <br />resources near the project area that contribute to the knowledge <br />of culture history of the region. This area is also significant <br />' because there has been relatively little surface disturbance <br />compared to the destruction of potential sites in the <br />metropolitan Denver area and along the urban corridor of the <br />' Front Range. There remain, however, many gaps in the record due <br />to the low number of excavated sites and gaps in information on <br />the cultures. <br />' Paleoindian sites are scarce and deeply buried, although a high <br />percentage of those known from the Plains region have been <br />identified in eastern Colorado. Archaic sites are most <br />frequently identified from surface finds: sites with contextual <br />integrity would be significant. <br />The formative stage sites are mainly found on second terraces <br />from the drainage. These occupations are generally revealed in <br />cut banks. Sites exhibiting integrity would be significant. <br />' Protohistoric stage sites are usually identified in high open <br />country, perhaps because these have been obliterated in other <br />14 <br />