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Show ATTACHMENT H Univers^ y o£ '= 7' » _ Department of Anthropology October 17, 1972 SUBJECT: Archaeological Survey of the Strawberry Reservoir Enlargement Area, Central Utah Project. TO: Salt Lake Office, Bureau of Reclamation ATTN: Mr. R. S. Brewster National Parks Service Midwest Archaeological Center Lincoln, Nebraska, ATTN: Dr. Ron Switzer This letter will serve to certify that an archaeological survey was accomplished in the area to be inundated by pooling behind the Soldier Creek Darn. The survey ws£ conducted io determine the effect the Strawberry Reservcir Enlargement project will have on archaeological resources. The survey T/ as carried oet by graduate students from thi3 department under the general supervision of Dr.> Jesse D. Jennings and field supervision c? Mr, Michael S. Berry. Numerous transects were walked through th. j entire area in qaestion; areas that appeared to ba promising as cue locate; v/ ere more rigorously inspected.. The only area that couxd not bii m^^ cri^ d ^ u. s a iar^ e borrow pit, apparently used as a source for deivi iil'i, locaved in £ ecs « 8 and 17, T43, R10W. Were sites located in tht bo- crcw area., they would cbvi^ asly have been destroyed prior to the ei* rvey. Only a few fkahes cf choicedeny \ 7ere feund during the investigation and no archaeei- gionl ti: oc \ rc- re encountered, Th:- area is therefore considered to be devoid of significant archaeological materials and inundation noses no threat to archaeologies) • valegs. Gardiner F. Daiiey Staff Archaeologist GFD: i*> A- 158 |
