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Blue Flame Aline ~l~ 39/05/0017 <br />• (Grand River Coal Compan}- Mine) Mesa <br />'~ mi. E of Rapid Creek mouth <br />T.11S R.981~ S.2 SEt TZ~4 h'F4 <br />In operation until 1968, this mine was part of <br />'the Grand River Coal Company which Baas forned in <br />1886 with George A. Crawford as President. J.P. <br />Harlow was assayer of the company. A shed with <br />weighing e4uiprnent and a weighing platform, a <br />wood and metal chute with 200' of narrow gauge <br />railroad tracks remain. <br />Hogback Road L~'~ 39/05/0016 <br />Follow Rapid Creek SE ca 4 mi Mesa <br />turn ME ,toward Big Ash, crossing <br />Tate Creek near "Alorris Ranch" <br />• leading toward Alesa. <br />T.11S R.96-98W S.several <br />Surveyed by George Hauxhurst, first settler of <br />Plateau Valley, this was the first official road <br />from Grand Junction to Collbran. The Hogback was <br />the setting for some of the incidents in the range <br />wars. Construction was managed by Fred S. Rockwell, <br />a pioneer rancher, and later completed by John M. <br />Bertholf. <br />Jai1~21 39/02/0008 <br />Mesa <br />T.LOS R.98W S.24 l'E~,A'E;AZP~ <br />Built to serve as a jail for convicts working on <br />the road in 1911-1912, this one room stxvcture <br />• is of native sandstone blocks and cement built <br />into the slope of a hill and utilizing some <br />boulders in the walls. It features walls tcao <br />feet thick. <br />