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SURVEY RESULTS Site Description During the course of events after abandonment in 1909, the Coal Basin Townsite was salvaged for materials by area residents, flattened by floods and avalanches, and impacted by modernization. As a result, structures 1-15, the lamp room, shop, store room, depot, powder house, tipple, trestle, and scale are all absent. The railroad grade to the roundhouse and turntable is still present along with rotten ties, a few spikes and occasional nuts and bolts. Portions of the roundhouse walls and turntable are still present in and around the turntable depression. The depression is approximately 60 ft. in diameter and 4 ft. deep. It is partially filled with water which often remains until late summer. The bridge abutment on the west side of Coal Creek still remains and provides an excellent example of the block stone masonry of the time. Very little remains of the hotel. The remnants of the foundation are visible but impact from avalanches has jumbled the remains and pushed it to the northeast. Portions of the flooring and stone foundation are scattered about, the super structure having been destroyed. A trash midden is located to the northeast in an old channel of Coal Creek. Artifacts include: crushed and rusted buckets, ots, pans, portions of a wood burning stove, bed frames, broken crockery, cups and saucers, butchered bone (Bos) , shoes, barrel oops, and tin cans. Bottle fragments range from beer and hiskey to medicine and facial creams (For example, see Plate 3) . One of the few buildings left standing is a small utility hed along the north side of the road, southeast of the hotel. tappears to have undergone a series of renovations for multiple ses. A number of different materials and construction methods ave been utilized including: rough and milled lumber, the 17