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Concrete foundations at A and B. At B, abulm ents lie due east of the tipple foundation and indicate the tipple area may have reached across the tracks. The home of Ernie Lombardi (V) was formerly the office for the Haybro Nline. ,4 iwo-story wooden structure, it has been remodeled inside and out and bears only slight resemblance to the original mine office. The doctor's office for Haybro was also located here. This building is older than 1929 (tel. and F. G. Whaley 1979, personal communication). There is currently a metal round-top building at W (see Photo 5). The foundation it rests on was formerly the foundation for the company store/post office of Haybro. To the south, at approximately X (where fragments of concrete lie in and near the creek bed), were the combination Union Hall/dance hall and Haybro filling station. Ruins of the station's grease pit mark its former location. Across Highway 131 are the ruins of a wooden stairway. These led to the Haybro school, which had been transported from Juniper when that town eras abandoned and the Hayden brothers were appointed receivers. To the north and up in a small flat area ore the ruins of a couple of houses. • Mention should be made of the unrecorded historic site at Oak Hills and the site of Arrowhead. These coal mines and towns are outside of the study area as proposed by Pittsburg and Midway and are not formally described or evaluated for NRHP eligibility in this report. H o~rrever, in order To understand The context within which an evaluation of Haybro can be made, other towns in the region should be considered. Arrowhead, which boomed in the 1940s, is young by NP.HP standards. Until 1979, the facilities at this location were virtually intact and, despite recent dismantling by P£xM, it remains one of the best preserved examples of soft rock mining operations in the region, Oak Hills (also known as Moffat Circle) is immediately north of Oak Creek. Its history is similar To H aybro's, and it appears to be in slightly better condition. White City, designated LS-020 by the Bureau of Land Management, is another historic to~,vn site in the vicinity. The integrity of White City has been severely compromised in that its features were moved to their present location from other towns in the vicinity. Haybro, Arrowhead, and Oak Hills were constructed on their original sites. It is our suggestion that all of these locations be considered in an attempt to preserve the heritage of early transportation, settlement, and mining enterprise existent in the region.