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8 • The collection transect artifact assemblage numbers 525 items (table, Appendix A). Almost 51 % of this is vessel glass fragments. The next most common categories aze plate glass, historic ceramics, wire, and debitage, in that order. Both transects cross the eazlier historic dump azea, and the northern transect crosses through a general trash scatter representative of the later historic occupations and also skirts the azea of the greatest concentration of lithic component materials. Site Maooine SLA7186 was mapped using a total station. Data collected will be processed through a CAD program to produce a scaled map ofthe site, its features, topography, excavations, and existing but non-site related man-made features. The map is keyed both to mapping stations and grid points left at the site, and to engineered points along the proposed haul road and railroad spur. Conne Finding one or several of the outhouses at the site, and preferably the one from the oldest occupation, has always been a goal of the project since these features often preserve an informative artifactual record not available from other site contexts. The prospects for finding these features were enhanced significantly with information on the approximate location of the Trujillo outhouse provided by Alphonso Trujillo. With the possible location of at least this outhouse narrowed considerably, and with the expectation that outhouses, when moved, do not tend to be moved faz, especially if the superstructure is reused, a coring effort was initiated to try and find one or several . of the outhouse pits. A Giddings Soil Coring Device, with atwo-inch core, was used to remove cores in a two- metergrid over an azea about 20 m square, centered on the approximate location identified by Mr. Trujillo. A two-meter grid was chosen to balance the level of effort with the likelihood of hitting a pit with cores at this interval. A two-meter grid of cores has about a 75% chance of hitting a pit one meter in diameter. If a pit could be found, i[ was planned to then use afour-inch core to remove multiple cores from the pit sediments, hopefully recovering a reasonable sample of artifacts. Because the core can be removed intact, stratigraphic information is retained. One hundred eight cores were removed. While none of the cores actually hit an outhouse pit, coring did locate the dense pocket of chazcoal at Feature 10, which turned out to overlie an outhouse pit. Two excavation units were placed here because of the charcoal found in coring. It was then discovered that three core holes came within inches of encountering the pit. The coring effort was thus at least partially successful, but in an indirect way. Historic Records Reseazch Historic records reseazch to this point has focused on the chain of title for the property. At present, the chain of title is fairly complete, beginning with the original patent on the property by • Lorenzo Sandoval in 1880 (it is probable that Lorencito Canyon may have been named after Lorenzo). Feature 8 and Structure 1 may have been built by Mr. Sandoval. The beginning of the