PERMFILE128845

• Permit No: C1980005
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS 008 POND TR 12
• Section_Exhibit Name: TAB 05 APPENDIX 5-3
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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area, although there were nine investigations in and around
• the Seneca II mine. The files search covered Sections
5, 6, and 7, T.5N., R.86W.; Sections 1, 2, 11, 12, 13,
and 14, T.SN., R.87W.; and Sections 34, 35, and 36, T.6N.,
R.87W., in Routt County, Colorado. It included the examination
_, of the computer print-out for Routt County, and the sites
plotted on the USGS Milner and Mount Harris 7.5' topographic
quadrangle maps by the staff of the Office of Archaeology
and Historic Preservation. There have been 17 cultural
resources previously recorded in this area. Of these,
`_ seven are prehistoric sites, three are historic sites,
six are prehistoric isolated finds and one is a historic
isolated find. No previously recorded sites are located
within the boundary of the project area to be surveyed
by Powers. The findings of the files search are summarized
on Table 1.
The literature review revealed that there have been a
number of cultural resources studies in the project vicinity.
- The first was an archaeological survey conducted in September,
1978 by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management of federal coal lease tract C-19985 in
the N1/2N1/2 of Section 1, T.SN., R.87w., with negative
results (Seneca Coals, Inc. 1980). In November, 1978
the Laboratory of Public Archaeology (LOPA) of Colorado
State University conducted a survey of t}ie 4-40s property,
• also with negative results (Texas Instruments 1979).
In September of 1979 Western Cultural Resources ranagement
(WCRM) conducted an inventory of the Seneca II mine property
and recorded five sites and four isolated finds. Testing
was recommended for two of the sites (SRT139 and SRT142)
to determine whether or not they qualified Eor nomination
to the National Register of 1istoric Places (NRIiP) (Wheeler
1980) . This testing was performed by S9CRh1 in I+pril of
1980 (Hand 1980). Site SRT192 was found to be not significant,
but site 5RT139 was thought to be eligible for the NRHP.
A data recovery program at SRT139 was carried out by Nickens
and Associates in August of 1980 (Tucker 1981).
The Peabody Coal Company had i{igh Plains Consultants inventory
1.5 miles of access roads and seven 20 by 20 ft drill
pad sites in the Seneca II mine vicinity in August of
1983. This survey recorded three isolated Einds, which
the Colorado Historical Society listed as SRT385-SRT388
(Linnabery and Evans 1983).
In 1984 Goodson and Associates surveyed 123 acres adjacent
to the Seneca II mine for the Twentymile Coal Company.
They recorded eight cultural resources, of which four
were historic sites and four were prehistoric isolated
finds (Killam 1984).
• The Grand River Institute surveyed a 60 mile long power
line corridor from Hayden to Gore Pass Eor t}ie Tri-State