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-21- <br />• <br />~ SJA353 (Figures 7, 8, and 9) <br />SJA353 consists of~abandoned coal mine and the remains of <br />coal piles and other structures associated with the mine (Figure 7). <br />T1ao subsidence pits are present on the slope in the eastern portion <br />of the site (Figure 8). Also present in this portion of the site <br />are the remains of several coal piles, pieces of cable, and t:-c <br />board sca[tere, both of which are too scattered to suggest a specific <br />function. The window glass found associated with one of the board <br />scatters suggests that it may have been a building. The paucity of <br />boards indicates that most of the structures were torn down, possibly <br />for the luaber, and were removed. <br />The southc:estern portion of the site consists of a scatter ~` <br />• trash including food cans, china fragments, sheet metal, and tar <br />pap;r, two coal piles, and a square area of mounds which measure <br />roughly 12.5 m on a side which opens into a coal pile on the nor;.hwest <br />side. The function of this "structure" is unkio~-n. <br />There is little to no chance that subsurface cultural deposits <br />are present within this site, which probably dates around 1915 (C. <br />McFall uay 30, 1979: pence^c'_ cc^=-L:.icstic^). ^~cth:r -'-e 'c^„~' <br />southeast of SJA353, vas begun in 1911 for the local productio:: ;,: <br />coal, The noon in the mine measured 25 x 50 feet and vas badly ti='•e-^a <br />(Beekly 1915). This mine apparently has not subsided, as has 5J~353, <br />and presents a hazard (C. McFall 1979: personal connunlcation). <br />The very poor condition of this coal mine indicates that it is <br />not eligible to the National Register on an architectural basis. Since <br />there is little chance of subsurface cultural deposits, it is not <br />t <br />eligible to the NRHP on an archaeological basis. because of its small <br />