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features were located. A search of the General Land Office land patent information <br />(www.glorecords.blm.gov) indicated that a patent for the S l/2 of NW 1/4 of Section 9, T5N R87W <br />was issued to Warren H. Bennett on May 21, 1917 under the Homestead Act of 1862. No additional <br />information was found during archival research. In addition to the historic refuse, two prehistoric <br />flaked lithic artifacts, a purple quartzite tertiary flake and a tan chert, utilized flake, were found <br />within the site boundary. <br />Eligibility and Management Recommendations. This site was originally recorded as not <br />eligible. MAC found nothing during this revisit to contradict that recommendation. No further work <br />is recommended.' <br />5RT17 <br />Site Description. This site was originally recorded on 6/23/1975 as part of the CSU-LOPA <br />project and was revisited on 3/31/1986 by Grand River Institute as part of a cultural resource <br />inventory for a transmission line staging area. The original site form documents two standing <br />structures at this location. One was a gabled house made of milled lumber with a sandstone <br />foundation. The second structure was a shed constructed of 2" x 4" wooden wall supports and sheet <br />metal. The revisit in 1986 found no standing structures but recorded a stone-walled dugout with <br />a metal roof. In 1986, a pile of fencing bulldozed into a drainage east of the dugout was also noted. <br />The site is situated on the west bank of an unnamed, intermittent drainage approximately 150 m west <br />of the county road and 300 m north of Nofstger Reservoir. A transmission line passes overhead. <br />Vegetation is primarily low and tall sagebrush and grasses. Deposition is alluvial. Slopewashed <br />sediments are also present. <br />During the current revisit, cultural material observed at the site consists of a dugout filled <br />with the sandstone slabs that previously lined the walls of the feature. Metal sheeting is collapsed <br />on top of the slabs which have slumped into the dugout depression. A few pieces of milled lumber <br />and metal sheeting were also scattered around the dugout. A pile of metal fenceposts appears to <br />have been bulldozed into the drainage just southeast of the dugout. <br />Eligibility and Management Recommendations. This site was originally recorded and <br />updated as not eligible. MAC found nothing during this revisit to contradict that recommendation. <br />No further work is recommended. <br />5RT18 <br />Site Description. Site 5RT18 was originally recorded on 6/24/1975 as part of the CSU- <br />LOPA project. The site consisted of three projectile point fragments, bifaces, a mano fragment and <br />lithic debitage. Artifacts were concentrated in several areas on a small ridge west of Scotchmans <br />Gulch. The site sits just southwest of a road intersection in an area vegetated by sagebrush. All <br />surface exposed cultural material was collected as a part of this inventory. Deposition was described <br />' No additional information on this site was available from either the Museum of Northwest Colorado or <br />the Hayden Heritage Center. <br />18