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~~ <br />5DA1058 <br />SDA1058 is an historic quarry for the Wall Mountain Tuff. It was <br />mined for stone used locally for building. The stone colors at <br />the quarry vary from a light gray (and least dense) stone (GSA <br />Rock Color between very light gray, H8, and light gray, N7) at <br />the top of the quarry, to a more yellowish color (GSA Rock Color <br />grayish, orange pink, 5 YR 7/2) in the middle, to a pinkish color <br />at the bottom (GSA Rock Color light brown gray 5 YR 6/1). The <br />quarry was mined by cutting from the mesa edge where the stones <br />were exposed and down into the deposit. The resulting quarry is <br />a circular depression about 100 feet in diameter and about 29 <br />feet in depth. A road comes into the quarry from the south <br />following along the mesa edge. To the south of the quarry, west <br />of the road, there are 3 piles of stone. This may have been a <br />sorting or storing area for the stone before it was hauled from <br />the quarry. Few artifacts are at the site. One can lid was seen <br />and two smashed cans were on the mesa top south of the quarry <br />depression, There is a cable in the west wall of the quarry. <br />The quarry site had been homesteaded by Thomas Kasler on May 15, <br />1880. The Kasler heirs sold this and other property to Charles <br />Bruess on July 9, 1898 (Douglas County Grantee Book 4, p,302). <br />On March 20, 1920, Charles Bruess sold the property to Joseph <br />' Winkler (Douglas County Grantee Book 60, p.4), the father of <br />Joseph Winkler who provided information on the sites. The <br />property was sold to the Winkler Cattle Company on Feb. 18, 1969. <br />Based on historic information regarding the mining of the Wall <br />Mountain Tuff in the area (see above), it would be expected that <br />this site was mined in the period from 1876 to 1915. Mr. Joseph <br />Winkler said that the stone from the quarry was used for four to <br />five stone buildings on the Winkler Ranch, which had been the <br />Engl Ranch houses. The building dates for these buildings were <br />1894, 1896, and 1900, with additional mining of stones to repair <br />' foundations and for other uses through the years. He thought that <br />the stone from the quarry was probably used for the old homestead <br />due west of the quarry and for the various stone fences placed in <br />the ranch (5DA1059 and SDA1062). He also suggested that the stone <br />from this quarry may have been used for the old stone Catholic <br />Church in Castle Rock because the color of the stone used in the <br />church matched the color of stone from this quarry. <br />SDA1059 <br />Site 5DA1059 consists of a series of low walls and a stock pond. <br />A series of low walls are placed roughly perpendicular to the <br />slope in two rows in a V shape down to a stock pond at a dam. <br />Each wall is built of stones set in a rectangular shape. Most of <br />' the walls are about 1 meter wide and 8 meters long. The walls do <br />not have courses, they are rectangular "piles" of stone. There <br />are nine walls leading down the slope in a V shape. The tenth <br />wall, lying downslope, is longer, about 11 meters long. This <br />wall is taller and appears to be of more recent construction. <br />17 <br />