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9 <br />• chain of title, with a patent granted by the US Government, is somewhat confusing, since this <br />property was part of the Beaubien and Miranda Land Grant and therefore was not owned by the US <br />Government. Explaining this peculiarity is part of the focus of continued records reseazch. <br />After Mr. Sandoval, the chain of title passes through a number of owners. Whether any of <br />these owners occupied the site is uncertain. Several gaps in the chain of title occur between the late <br />1880s and ] 901. T. J. Andrews (for whom Jeff Canyon and Little Jeff Canyon may have been <br />named) owned the property beginning in 1902. Mr. Andrews may have been part of a community <br />of Swedish Americans in the valley around this time, and may have been responsible for the <br />construction of most or all of the additions to Structure 1, as well as some or all of the various <br />outbuildings and barns. He apparently ran it as a halfway house for travelers along the stage road <br />in the Picketwire Valley. Between T. J. Andrews' ownership, which began in 1902, and the sale of <br />the property by CF&I to the Parsons family in 1946, is at present unresearched, but will be addressed <br />as part of continuing records research. <br />Informants <br />Three people have provided fast and second hand information about the site. Robert (Bob) <br />Parsons is one of the Parsons family who owned the property until its acquisition by the F. E. Hill <br />Company in 1994. He was contacted in the fall of 1996 and information from that interview is <br />summarized in the 1996 final report (McKibbin et al. 1996:47-48) and again in the treatment plan <br />• (McKibbin and Carrillo 1997:27). Several attempts have been made to contact him again, and have <br />been unsuccessful. <br />Sid Bayes is the present ranch manager, and has been more than helpful in providing <br />information about what he recalls of the site, through his familiarity with the larger ranch property <br />as manager for both the Parsons family and the present owners. It was from Mr. Bayes that MAC <br />]earned of Alphonso Trujillo, who is the son of the last family to have lived at the site, and who still <br />resides in Trinidad. Mr. Trujillo was interviewed by Richazd Carrillo, and did visit the site in <br />August, 1997. <br />Alphonso Trujillo, a brother, and their father, were the last people to have occupied the site. <br />Mr. Trujillo, who at present is in his late 70s, thinks he may have been born at the site, or at least was <br />born when his family lived there (his mother died shortly thereafter). His earliest childhood <br />recollections are from the site and probably represent the early 1920s. He lived there with his <br />brother and father until World War II, of which Mr. Trujillo is a veteran. Upon returning from the <br />War, Mr. Trujillo did not return to the site, but lived in the area, at Primero and more recently in <br />Trinidad. He does not recall what happened to the site after he and his family left. Mr. Trujillo has <br />provided significant information about structures and activities at the site which were of great <br />benefit in complementing, and in certain cases guiding, the archaeological investigations. <br /> <br />