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• As noted, these project areas are designated as probable future mining areas. The drill site locations <br />are exploratory in nature and will be drilled in 1988. Overland access routes to these six locations will <br />be less than 50 feet in width and less than one acre will be needed for the actual drill pad site. <br />Projected mining areas are shown on Map 2.05.3-1, Operations Plan -New Horizon 2. <br />Reconnaissance level and intensive field surveys were conducted intermittently, depending upon <br />weather conditions, by the author between March 7 and 25, 1988. No artifactual materials were <br />collected and resulting field notes and photographic files are located at Nickens and Associates' office <br />in Montrose. <br />At the request of Peabody Coal Company, separate cultural resource reports are being submitted for <br />each of the two survey tracts and for the six drill sites. Since this work represents a continuation of <br />previous cultural resource efforts on this project, the reporting of the field results will be presented as <br />attachments to the previous project report in which Tucker (1986) thoroughly outlined the effective <br />environment of the study area, outlined the work objectives, and described the survey methodology. <br />As a consequence, this information is not repeated in the attached reports. Any changes to the <br />previously stated methodology, survey area descriptions, and survey results are of course detailed in <br />the current reporting. The earlier site file search of the Colorado Inventory of Cultural Resources was <br />updated by a request to the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in March 1988. <br />No known cultural resource sites are located in the survey areas. <br />f~ <br />57 <br />TRACT IIA SURVEY <br />This report discusses the field survey of the area known as Tract IIA. This tract includes a drainage <br />known as Calamity Draw (Figure 2.04.4-2), but it is extensively disturbed by habitation and agricultural <br />activities. Vehicular reconnaissance revealed almost no pristine ground surface within the tract;nearly <br />all of it had been leveled and/or cultivated. A significant portion of the land along the drainage is <br />swampy in nature and supports a dense growth of grasses which obscures the ground surface. A <br />small area of about five acres was inspected at the very northward end of the tract. <br />RESULTS <br />No significant historic or prehistoric resource properties were located in Tract I IA. Extant farms do not <br />have an appearance of historical significance. One collapsed cellar and an associated trash scatter <br />was observed near the west end of the westward extending arm of the tract; however, the structure <br />and trash are apparently less than fifty years of age. Two car bodies of greater age are present <br />• (REVISED 8-28-95) 2.04.4 - 5 <br />