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<br />About 25 meters farther downslope (west) is a small earth stock <br />pond. The west side of the stock pond is flanked by a dirt <br />embankment, 20 m long. Mr. Joseph Winkler stated that the rows <br />of stone were livestock fences to contain livestock. These were <br />placed to contain the dairy cattle that need twice daily milking. <br />The early stone fences would have been built in the homestead <br />period from about 1860 to 1880. The stock pond and the nineth <br />wall are of more recent construction. The configuration of the <br />stone walls also appears to be for water catchment and diversion. <br />5DA1060 <br />SDA1060 is an isolated secondary flake, with unifacial retouch <br />along one edge, and two concave notches. The stone is brownish <br />purple with quartzite inclusions. It matches the pale red Wall <br />Mountain Tuff that outcrops at site SDA1057, about 900 m to the <br />southwest. The artifact was on the mesa top near the mesa edge. <br />SDA1061 <br />SDA1061 is a utilized secondary flake of light gray to'orange <br />Wall Mountain Tuff. It is located on the mesa top in a open area. <br />5DA1062 <br />SDA1062 is a stone livestock fence placed along the mesa top edge <br />on the west side of Willow Creek. it is a wall of dry-laid stone <br />that is 3 feet high at greatest height, and one stone wide. <br />Stones are loosely assembled and "tippy" when crossed. The wall <br />has collapsed at spots along the survey area. The wall is seen <br />extending for an unknown distance to the south along the mesa <br />edge. In the survey area it begins at the south edge of the mesa <br />top at the deep intermittent canyon into Willow Creek. It is <br />seen beginning again across the canyon at the north edge of the <br />intermittent canyon where it again flanks the edge of Willow <br />Creek for an unknown distance. This property is now part of the <br />Winkler Ranch but it had been the Kasler homestead. Mr. Joseph <br />Winkler suggested that this wall had been built during the <br />homestead period from about 1860 to 1880. Marr (1983:62) mentions <br />the construction of stone fences in 1860 on the Misner Ranch . <br />adjoining the Engl Ranch "to keep their livestock within view so <br />the Indians would not drive them away." <br />stone wall <br />A low stone wall, 2 to 3 courses high, 1 m wide, and about 25 m <br />long, is located on the east side of the Willow Creek meander. <br />The wall, apparently placed to prevent erosion, was cut and <br />eroded by a deep erosion cut. The wall was not recorded as site <br />since it appeared to be less than 50 years of age. <br /> <br />18 <br />r <br />