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• <br />S-DT-92 COWAN MINE <br />1. Name: Cowan Mine <br />2. Location: Vicinity of Paonia, Colorado - 2.5 miles north, near Orchard <br />Valley Mine. <br />3. Classification: <br />Category: site <br />Ownership: Private/public <br />Status: Unoccupied <br />Present Use - Other: abandoned <br />4. Owner of Property: Eolorado Ne,tme-Tel-a.~o; Frtc. <br />Bureau of Land Management <br />5• Location of Legal Description: Delta County Courthouse, Delta, Colorado. <br />6. Representation in Existing Surveys: <br />Title: Colorado Inventory of Historic Sites <br />Date: Ongoing State <br />• Depository: Colorado Historical Society <br />1300 Broadway <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />7. Description: <br />Condition: ruins; unaltered; original site. <br />The present site consists of the stone pilings for the gravity tram <br />trestle, ,^'' ~'~° ,' ~' <br />Originally the mine consisted of a small shed, the mine itself, a gravity <br />powered. tram trestle and probably a loading facility a[ the end of the <br />tramline. The large trestle was built in 1912 or 1913 for Cowan by <br />C. A. Carlson. The trestle promptly began to fall out of alignment, and <br />the cart rails rapidly developed obvious distortion. <br />Today all that is visible of [he Cavan operation are the dry laid stone <br />foundations of the trestle. These are impressive in themselves and are <br />a suitable monument to the engineering ability of an earlier generation. <br />Ftuch of the rest of the site has been disturbed by many years of mining <br />activity at the nearby Orchard Valley Mine. <br />J <br />6 <br />