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' GCC Rio Grande, Inc., Cultural Survey <br />' of the towns where they trade. The problems were the distances to reach some of these <br />individuals, the constant repair costs for replacing poles and lines, and offering the service at a <br />price affordable by the farmers and ranchers. After 1904, there were five Farmers Propositions, <br />' which entailed the farmers or ranchers building all or part of the line and maintaining the line. In <br />exchange the phone company offered them reduced rates on the telephone receiver and <br />transmitter and connection service. As a result of the active roll to enlist the farmers and ranchers <br />' with phone service, Colorado has telephone lines built largely with telephone company money. <br />This historic telephone line is an excellent example of historic rural phone service for ranchers. <br />' The line consists of some original equipment but also includes modifications and maintenance to <br />the line. Modifications include pole replacement, which is a regular repair need for phone.lines. <br />The modifications detract from the integrity of original historic fabric (design, materials, and <br />workmanship) of the resource, but retain integrity of function, setting, feeling, and historic <br />theme. The line was built to serve a single customer, now the Blake Ranch. The line is not <br />unique or outstanding, and is not associated with events or persons important to the history of the <br />' area. The site is recommended as not eligible for the Register, and no further cultural resource <br />work is recommended. <br />5PE4235.1: This site is an early 1950s power line built to serve the Hatchet Ranch. The owner <br />of the ranch at that time was M.T. Everheart. The line is a single-phase distribution line carrying <br />two conductors. Large brown ceramic insulators support the upper conductor, and smaller brown <br />ceramic insulators bolted to the side of each pole support the lower conductor. The poles are <br />made of straight-grained conifers (possibly ponderosa or lodgepole pine). The power line is not <br />unique or outstanding, does not represent a unique or historically important technology, is not <br />associated with the significant contributions of a person of transcendent importance in local or <br />State history, and is not associated with events important to local history. The site does not <br />' appear to have the potential to yield information important in history. Therefore the site is <br />recommended to be not eligible for the Register, and no further cultural resource work is <br />recommended. <br />5PE4236: This site consists of the remains of a pair of beehive-shaped kilns, a scatter of <br />limestone debris, and three quarry or prospect pits, one with an adjacent spoil pile. The two stone <br />' structures are both incomplete. They are made from slabs of local limestone laid with adobe <br />mortar. The limestone slabs vary in size or thickness to maintain even courses. The structures are <br />wider at the base, with a diameter of about 16 feet and a wall thickness of 3.5 feet. These <br />' dimensions are maintained to a height of about 12 to 12.5 feet, and then the walls begin to thin <br />and slope inward to form a dome. Portions of the dome are still present on the larger structure <br />with a diameter of about 13 feet and a wall thickness of 3 feet. It is estimated that about one- <br />quarter of the upper portion of the larger structure is missing. Assuming that the structures would <br />have been identical in dimensions, the upper half of the smaller structure is absent. There are no <br />structural remnants on either of the structures that indicate how raw materials were loaded into <br />' the interior. Commonly, bulky materials are fed into kilns or ovens from the top, to take <br />advantage of gravity, but no unequivocal evidence was found to confirm this. There is a trail of <br />limestone debris on the slope extending from the limestone cliffs above to the area of the <br />structures. This could be debris from construction, debris from loading unprocessed limestone, or <br />both. There are also many fragments of limestone around the structures many of which are from <br /> <br />1180-Red Rock Class III CR Inventory(Apr.17.02) 10 <br />