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Structure 2 is a small side gabled barn or shed. The original structure was one room. <br />Later. an adjacent shed room was added to the end. The entire building now measures 23 feet <br />9.5 inches long. 13 feet 3.5 inches wide. and 13 feet 6 inches high. Building material is milled <br />lumber siding and corrugated metal roofing. Doors are present on all four sides of the <br />structure. Two of these are paneled. one is milled lumber and the other doorway appears to <br />have been boarded over. Three windows are also present and have been boarded over. <br />Structure 3 is a privy. It measures 4 feet 1 inch by 4 feet 6 inches and is 7 feet high. It <br />has milled lumber siding and has a half gabled. corrugated metal roof. <br />A corral is located north of the three structures. It is a mix of old and new fencint<, <br />materials. An older log post and rail fence circles the corral. In places where the fencing has <br />become ruined and sagging. metal gates have been set as reinforcements, indicating it may still <br />be in use. East of the corral is a large spring fed pond. A Parshall flume is located at the north <br />end. Water flows from out of the pond back into Stevens Gulch as it continues north to the <br />West Fork of Terror Creek. <br />Two modern buildings (Buildings I and 2) are present in the park area of the old cow <br />camp. south of the historic structures. Building 1, the older of the two. was built in 1963. It <br />appears on the Bowie Quadrangle Map. dated 196511978. It is two stories with an interior <br />bathroom and three bedrooms. The Delta County Assessor indicates it has masonry <br />construction It appears to be built, at least partially, out of cinder block. Milled lumber siding <br />and corrugated metal roofing is also present. The building is 1585 square feet in size with <br />several additions /modifications. There is an open porch, as well as a screened -in porch. <br />Building 2, the newest structure:, was built in 1995. It is single story. of log <br />construction. has two interior bathrooms and three bedrooms. As indicated on the Bowie <br />Quadrangle Map (1965, 1978) there was apparently an older structure located to the east of this <br />one. No indications of that structure remain. <br />The camp is seasonally occupied and regularly maintained. it was sold to Turkey Track <br />Ranch by the Morrell family in 1992. The Morrell's tiled a homestead patent (for Stock <br />Raising) in 1942 (Document loo. 046322. Accession No. 1115145). Prior to the Morrell <br />family, Charles Scales held a land patent in the area of the cow camp. It was filed in 1910 <br />(Document No. 04095. Accession No. 130788). The 1891 GLO map indicates D.S. Stephens, <br />after whom the gulch was likely named. had a cabin just north of the site area (Figure 2). The <br />1916 GLO map shows the "Rockwells Ranch" in the same area as the site (Figure 3). <br />Evaluation and Management Recommendation <br />Concerning the seven aspects of integrity, the site retains only Location (the cow camp <br />is in the same location as originally constructed). It does not reflect/retain Design (the original <br />design of the structures has been compromised over time with the maintenance and upkeep of <br />the property without regard to the historic feeling and preservation of the structures). Materials <br />12 <br />