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• Registration Requirements: Resources associated with this context should meet the <br />requirements outlined below to be considered as eligible for inclusion in the NRHP. Properties <br />associated with this context may be evaluated under Criteria a, c, and/or d. The first registration <br />requirement is that the property had to have operated in a ranching related function for the <br />majority of the time between 1881 and 1944. The second requirement is that the physical <br />chazacteristics of the ranch must be present, specifically that the buildings be vemaculaz in style. <br />The individual buildings and structures must represent their condition, configuration and fabric <br />as they did when built to allow interpretation of locally practiced construction techniques. <br />Additions or modifications must not impair the quality of the historic fabric (design, materials <br />and workmanship) of the individual buildings, contributing buildings within a district or the <br />overall district. For the buildings to be considered significant under Criterion c their materials <br />and methods of construction must be consistent with the descriptions given above. <br />For a district to be eligible the key components of a faun or ranch must be present. Specifically, <br />there must be a main house, there must be associated animal caz structures such as a barn or <br />corrals, or agricultural structwes such as grain bins or machine sheds reflective of the type of <br />agriculture practiced at the farm or ranch. Finally, the district and/or contributing resources must <br />be at ]east 50 years old and for those structures and buildings not dating to the period of <br />significance, they must help interpret the evolutionary changes in methods or techniques in <br />ranching that took place. No NRIIP exceptions apply to this property type. The individual <br />buildings and the district must be in thew original location or thew location during the period of <br />• significance and the setting must be present to convey their historic feeling. If the individual <br />buildings have lost their ability to convey either their design, materials, workmanship, or <br />character/function within the district though natural deterioration or the activities of man.during <br />or after the period of significance, then those specific buildings shall be considered non- <br />contributing.. Resources will be considered significant under Criterion d if they can offer <br />important information pertinent to one of the reseazch topics discussed above and maintain their <br />archaeological integrity vis a vis their focus as defined in NRI3P Bulletin 36. <br />Property Type 1B: Irrigation System Resources (1880-1951) <br />SiQniTicance of the Irrigation System Resources: The significance of irrigation in the study <br />azea stems from the relationships of the resources to many of the major trends in the history of <br />the region and the development of its agricultural industries. Equally, many common <br />engineering and construction techniques are represented by resources associated with the various <br />water diversion systems of the region. Not all types of imgation features are represented by <br />resources in and near the present study azea. For example, the study area contains only a major <br />ditch and to date no remains of small, ranching related irrigation systems have been recorded. <br />The majority of the study area's agricultural heritage is tied to the availability of water for use in <br />growing forage and crops. Thus, like the farming and ranching property type, the irrigation <br />system properties aze intimately tied to and representative of the study aeea's agricultural heritage <br />of the past 140 or so yeazs. This Property Type is associated with the RP3 themes ]fisted above as <br />well as the Engineering Context theme of Imgation. <br />19 <br />