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consists of sagebrush, grasses, and fortis. An unnamed, southeast-flowing intermittent drainage <br />is located approximately 250 feet to the northeast. <br />SRT1374: This isolate is a Geological Land Survey brass cap marking the quarter section <br />boundary between Sections 4 and 5. The date "1913" is embossed on the cap, as well as the <br />section numbers, township, and range. There is a small rock cairn piled up around the post. <br />Site Descriptions <br />SRT113: This site was originally recorded in 1978 and identified as the ButledHudspeth Ranch <br />which was settled in the late 1880's by the Butler Brothers. At the time of its original recording, <br />the site consisted of several standing structures that included outbuildings, the main house, and <br />what was possibly the original wood and log cabin. The current investigation noted that the <br />structures reported as standing during the initial recording had been dismantled since that <br />recording. Presently, the site consists of four debris piles that represent the materials from the <br />main house, the log and wooden outbuildings, and the barn. All that remains of the main house <br />is the concrete foundation. Large sandstone slabs that are possibly the foundation stones for the <br />barn were noted near the corrals at the east end of the site. The corral is still largely standing and <br />is of a wooden pole and rail construction. A slab-lined circular well was noted south of the main <br />house which did not appear on the original site map. The wooden and tin pulley system used to <br />haul water is dismantled and piled inside the well. A heavily sifted-in ditch crosses east to west <br />through the site along the base of the ridge north of the house foundation. A two-track road <br />crosses north to south through the east end of the site. More recent construction at the site <br />consists of the installation of a telephone line and barbed wire fencing. Any other artifacts or <br />outbuilding foundations could not be identified due to the dense grass cover. <br />The site has debris associated with the house scattered around it in concentrations. The <br />main house is located on the north edge of the Fish Creek floodplain. To the north is the toe of <br />an east/west trending ridge. At the top of the ridge in a very prominent location is an old tractor, <br />whose body has been removed, with farm machinery attached. The machinery appears to be a <br />thresher. North and downslope of the tractor in a shallow intermittent drainage is a scattered <br />dump where the household appliances were placed. Included in these is an old mechanized <br />washing machine, rollers included, the green enamel-ware body of the gas stove, bed springs, and <br />four more threshers. West of the house, along the base of the ridge, are lazge tabular slabs of <br />sandstone that do not appear to be in any pattern or formation. They are not natural to the <br />floodplain, but there is no indication from what part of the homestead they came. <br />The site retains no structural integrity. Although the site was homesteaded in the 1880s, <br />none of the original structures dating to that period are currently standing and there is no <br />evidence of their location. The buildings recorded in 1978, most of which appear to have been a <br />later occupation, have all been dismantled or are deteriorated beyond recognition. All that <br />remains of the structures aze several debris piles that consist primarily of the construction <br />materials from the dismantled buildings. No other artifact classes were noted which could give <br />7 <br />