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SITE SUMMARIES • <br />Site Number 5R'C163 <br />Temporary Number Y-T-1 <br />Site Type Historic Coal iAine and Dump <br />Cultural/Temporal <br />:'lffiliation Euro-American/Post 1900 <br />Nearest ~V.vter Sage Creek <br />Environmental Seating The site is located at an elevation of 2,274 <br />meters on a ridge and an alluvial flood <br />plain. Aspect is to the west. Vegetation <br />includes scrub oak, wheatgrass, silver sage, <br />and chokecherry. <br />Site Size 150 m x GO m <br />Site Description This site is a coal mine cut into the side of a <br />ride. The mine was opened by a <br />Homesteader named Ottenberg, sometime <br />around 1929'. A coal seam, the remnants of • <br />a road cut in the side of the ridge, and a <br />considerable amount of debris associated <br />with mining activities, are found on the <br />site. Most of the wood debris indic;ites a <br />platform or ramp was built out from the <br />slope, most likely for loading materials into a <br />transport below. Very little of this ramp <br />remains. The remnants of narrow gauge rail <br />and part of an ore car are in the debris pile. <br />On an alluvial flat below the mine is a dump <br />which is still used by the Yoasts. Most <br />artifacts in the dump are too recent to be <br />considered cultural resources. There are <br />several cars older than 50 years in the dump, <br />but the cars were probably added after <br />1929. The dump and the mine were recorded <br />as one site because of their close proximity <br />to each other. <br />Site Significance The site is in poor condition and n~~t unique <br />to the to area and is considered ineligible to <br />the NRHP. <br />Project Impact The site is within the permit boundaries but <br />outside the direct impact zone. <br />14anagement Recommendations Yo fuc•ther work. • <br />* Personal Commtmic_ition, Leonard Yoast, October ?, 1979. <br />20 <br />