PERMFILE105797

• Permit No: X198716820
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/23/1987
• Doc Name: A CULTURAL RESOURCES INVENTORY OF FOUR ALLUVIAL WELL LOCATIONS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

The literature review revealed that there have been a
number of cultural resources studies in the project vicinity.
• In September of 1979 Western Cultural Resources Management
(WCRM) conducted an inventory of the Seneca II mine permit
area and recorded five sites and four isolated finds.
Testing was recommended for two of the sites ( SRT1 39 and
SRT142) (Wheeler 1980). This testing was performed by
WCRM in April of 1980 (Hand 1980). Site SRTi42 was found
to be not significant, but site SRT139 was thought to
be eligible for the NRHP, A data recovery program at
SRT139 was carried out by Nickens and Associates in August
of 1980 (Tucker 1981).
The Peabody Coal Company had High Plains Consultants inventory
1.5 miles of access roads and seven 20 by 20 ft drill
pad sites in the Seneca II mine vicinity in August of
1983. This survey recorded three isolated finds (Linnabery
and Evans 1983).
In 1984 Goodson and Associates surveyed 123 acres adjacent
to the east of the Seneca II mine for the Twentymile Coal
Company. They recorded eight cultural resources, of which
four were historic sites and four were prehistoric isolated
finds (Killam 1984).
The Grand River Institute surveyed a 60 mile long power
line corridor from Hayden to Gore Pass for the Tri-State
• Generating Company in 1985. They recorded five historic
sites, three prehistoric sites and one isolated find.
~ One site, SRT487, was thought to possibly be eligible
for the NRHP and monitoring of construction activities
at that location was recommended (Conner and Langlon 1985).
In June, 1987 Powers inventoried 180 acres for the Cyprus
Addition and Pond 008 locations at the Seneca II mine,
for Peabody. One prehistoric isolated find was recorded
(Brechtel and Friedman 1987).
4.0 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
In terms of prehistory, regional cultures can be discussed
within the Paleo-Indian (ca. 10,000 to 5500 B.C.), Archaic
(5500 B.C, to A.D, 500), Formative (A.D, 500 to 1300),
and the Protohistoric stages (Guthrie et al. 1984; Grady
1984). During the Historic period, after ca, A.D, 1540,
the area can be discussed in terms of several temporal/
political/economic themes, including Early Exploration
• and the Fur Trade (1764-1876), Native American-Euro-American
Contact (1760-1889), Coal Mining (1870-1945), Early Transpor-
tation and the Railroads (1859-1934), Ranching and Farming
(1859-1945), Settlements (1869-1915), Recreation and Tourism
•• (1865-1945), and Federal Activity (1890-1945) (Mehls 1984;
Husband 1984).