Goldfield, AZ (Geographic Keyword)
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Between April 15 and June 14, 1993, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. performed a cultural resources survey of State Route 88 (the Apache Trail). The right-of-way varies from 66 to 200 feet, but construction as-builts were not available. Therefore, the Arizona Department of Transportation requested that a 200 foot wide right-of-way be surveyed for the entire project length unless clearly marked property boundaries or other right-of-way indications were present. The 17.5 mile long survey...
The Eastern Mining Area 115 KV Transmission Line Survey: Archaeological Resources in the Salt-Gila Uplands of Central Arizona (1996)
SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...
HAER No. AZ-6-B, Eastern Mining Area Transmission Line (the 115kV System), Gila County, Arizona: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data (1996)
The Eastern Mining Area transmission line was first built to carry hydroelectric power generated at Roosevelt Dam, the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s first large scale work, into Phoenix. It soon expanded to serve the area mines the southern portion of Gila County. The sale of power to these mines provided revenue to expand the Salt River Project’s hydroelectric system and furnish Salt River Valley farmers with electricity.