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374 Class Iff Inventory, Colowyo's Collom Mine Project 6.2.36 Site 5MF4009 Site Type Historic homestead Legal Locatio Section 1, T3N, R94W Landowner Private Site Dimensio 148 x 98 ft Site Descriptio Site 5MF4009 is located within the southeastern portion of the Colowyo Collom Mine project area. The site was recorded in 1995 by MAC for ColoWyo Coal Company's lease and exploration areas. It was described as a likely homestead residence located at 7,480 ft (2,280 m) adjacent to a spring within a narrow intermittent drainage valley that is an upper fork of the East Fork of Jubb Creek (Figure 6.227). Soils were characterized as alluvial, colluvial, and slope- washed residual brown silty loam. The vegetation consisted of sagebrush, serviceberry, and various C mid -level to tall grasses, with aspens and Gambel oak nearby on the adjacent slopes. The site measured 150 x 100 ft and consisted of a collapsed log outhouse (Feature 1) and collapsed log house (Feature 2), with miscellaneous domestic and utilitarian historic debris. Feature 1 was 7 x 7 ft with saddle - notched logs fastened with wire nails. Feature 2 consisted of the ruins of a rectangular (13 x 30 ft) three - bedroom house built of saddle- notched logs and wire nails, with the remains of a milled lumber floor. No windows or doors were evident except one window frame. Some of the logs rested on native sandstone blocks as a foundation. The current inventory found the site to contain the same features and artifacts as those recorded in 1995 and to be in the same physical condition. A review of the MTP and Historical Indices for T3N, R94W, and the BLM website shows that George W. Collins received a Homestead Entry Patent (HE No. 1025187) for 242 acres on March 26, 1929. The patent was entered/filed (035636) at the General Land Office in Denver and was not cancelled or relinquished (BLM n.d.). This would date the initial occupation to the Depression era.. r 47599 TRC Mariah Associates Inc.