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• \ ) REPORT ON ARCHAEOLOCLCAL INVESTIGATIONS IN•THE VICINITIES OF THE ALLE*f AND MAXWELL NINES, CF3I STEEL CORPORATION, LAS ANIMAS COUNTY, COLORADO fly John Martin Campbell, Ph.D. The following repore~provides information sufficient ca satisfy the requirements of the new Federal Office of Surface Mining (Sec. 783.12), and State Mined Land Reclamation Hoard (Sec. 2.04.4) regulations at the CF6I Steel Corporation Allen and Maxwell Hines, which are situated near the Purgatoire Rivet, and near Colorado State Highway Number 12, about 30 miles vest of Trinidad, Colorado. Investigations at Che Allen Mine: As par your instructions I intensively examined twenty-two (22) acres which lie between the Purgatoire River and Colorado State Highway 12, just vest of the Allen Mine Headquarters (see enclosed Raps 1 and 2). This locality lies at an elevation of about 7500 feet, above sea level, and slopes gently southward from the above noted highway to the Purgatoire River. During my investigations in late fall and early winter 1980 the ground 'surf aces were rather extensively covered with herbs and fortis, and small copses of short"trees". Dominant plant species included Cambel's oak and coyote willow. Other, most notable species included • ( ~ sweet clover, goldenrod, mullein, sunflower, Wood's rose, winter fat, rag sumpweed, Palmer's snovberry, cockleburr, false tetragon, sage, alder, Virginia chokecherry and horsetail. The bird species observed veto: red-tailed hawk, wild turkey, Levis' woodpecker, dipper, robin and white-crooned sparrow. Mammals included: racoon, coyote and mule deer. No re. specific Latin names of these plants and animals will be supplied on request. On this plot of ground the archaeological materials observed were as follows: (1) Three (3) widely scattered and widely separated quarczsice spoils which had not been retouched, and which were undiagnoscic as regazds Former cultural origin or affiliation. (2) Six (6) fragments of ungulate long bone which were found eroding from an arroyo bank near the easternmost margin aE the locality in question (see 'tap 2). These fragments occurred two hundred and EiEty (250)feee south of Colorado State Highway 12. They protruded from the ease side of the arroyo bank, two (2) Eeet above the bottom oP the arroyo, and seven (7) feet below the tap of the bank. The banes are too fragmen- tary to be positively determined, but they may represent Bison, and I feel that this particular location should be further examined before it ( is covered with tailings or otherwise destroyed.