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3 <br />stayed within 15 feet of the fence. Consequently, most of the pa:~ture <br />• was not walked. <br />Survey Results <br />The area was surveyed by walking transects across pastures spaced <br />approximately 20 to 25 feet apart. Also, all gravel bars were checked <br />closely. The only area not surveyed in this manner was the 10 acre <br />parcel noted above. No aboriginal cultural remains were observed during <br />the survey. It is unlikely that any subsurface aboriginal cultural remains <br />will be encountered within the survey area, judging from the surfa.e <br />indications and the observed meander patterns. Mr. Friz Bartley, aho <br />has owned land in the southern part of the survey area for a numbec of <br />years, is an amateur artifact collector. ,He has never found any <br />aboriginal cultural remains on his land, but has Eound a numbec of <br />artifacts along the bluff south of the survey area and overlooking the <br />• flood plain. This pattern of artifact distcibution generally conforms <br />to current knowledge of aboriginal settlement patterns in the area. <br />The only items of historic nature noted during the survey are <br />several irrigation ditches that run through the survey area. The Host <br />prominent of these ditches is the South Branch ditch that supplies <br />water for the James Ditch, which begins southeast of the survey arc~a. <br />The South Branch follows the course of what was once the bed of St. <br />Vrain Creek. During a flood in the 1090's, however, the creek shifted <br />north to its present position and the South Branch supply ditch wa:; <br />excavated to continue supplying water for the James Ditch. <br />The Oligarchy ditch runs from the Foothills Reservoir northeast to <br />St. Vrain Creek. It crosses the South Branch supply ditch through a <br />• <br />