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>Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA)
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>"Got CALICHE?" Newsletter
>Wednesday September 20, 2000
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>UTAH
>
>http://www.sltrib.com/09192000/utah/23985.htm Annette Nelson volunteers to
>travel to obscure, barren parts of Utah, climbs fences and stands in the
>sun for hours, squinting at broken tombstones until their faded words
>become names and dates. Nelson wants to rediscover the lost dead, one
>reason she volunteers for the Utah Historical Society's Cemetery Inventory
>Project. The project will document every burial plot in Utah, from the more
>than 105,000 people buried in the Salt Lake Cemetery to single graves such
>as the Kimber Ranch Burial in Box Elder County, with its nameless grave
>from 1879. The project, which started in 1997, is halfway complete.
>
>NEVADA
>
>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2000/sep/18/510782380.html
>A judge has granted a restraining order against a pioneer trails group,
>temporarily prohibiting it from moving, defacing or changing wagon train
>trail markers a Nevada group erected 30 years ago. Opponents of removing
>the markers argued Trails West was acting on incomplete, misinterpreted or
>wrong information. The order issued remains in effect at least until a
>hearing on a preliminary injunction scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
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>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000919/t000088618.html Construction may
>destroy the ambience of the entire tree-lined block and wreck Beverly
>Hills' only official historic neighborhood. That historic designation, a
>listing as a historic district on the California Register of Historical
>Resources, is less than a month old.
>
>ARIZONA
>
>http://www.azcentral.com:80/community/comstories/0919mitten19Z6.html Mesa
>is relocating two historical homes, but moving the houses could endanger
>their listing on a national historic register. Moved properties must go to
>a location where homes have the same general character and age as the
>original neighborhood and they must be placed so they face the same
direction.
>
>NEW MEXICO

>http://www.du.edu/~sward/cryptojews.html Converso Descendants in the
>American Southwest: A Report on Research, Resources, and the Changing
>Search for Identity
>
>http://www.cia-g.com/~gallpind/todaysnews.html#anchor8 A plan to help fund
>a Bosque Redondo Memorial and visitor center at Fort Sumner State Monument
>was approved by the U.S. House Resources Committee. The memorial would
>commemorate the struggle and survival of nearly 9,000 Navajo and Mescalero
>Apache, who were detained at Bosque Redondo after being forced to walk 350
>miles by the U.S. government in 1863. The ordeal ended with the Treaty of
>1868, which recognized the Navajo Nation.
>
>http://www.abqjournal.com:80/news/1montez09-18-00.htm In Las Vegas NM, a
>castle is getting a facelift. The 90,000 square-foot-castle was designed in
>the 1880s by the Santa Fe Railway as a resort hotel. In 1997, the castle
>was named by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of
>America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
>
>TEXAS / NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.portales-news.com/news.htm#story1 Dalley began restoring and
>collecting windmills about 20 years ago. His collection boasts about 82
>windmills, including one that dates back to 1870. The symposium host was T.
>Lindsay Baker, museum director of the Texas Heritage Museum. Baker the
>American authority on windmills, because he has written several books on
>wind power in America and is currently the editor of a quarterly
>newsletter, called the "Windmillers' Gazette." TIMS
><http://tims.geo.tudelft.nl/index.htm> promotes research into the history
>of wind, water and animal-powered mills, and efforts to preserve historic
>mills and mill sites.
>
>CYBERIA
>
>http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/20000919_rbighorn.html Company E was
>boxed in and could not escape. A burial detail could not get the bodies up
>the ravine and buried them by knocking soil from the banks onto the
>remains. It is not known whether subsequent reburial parties had any luck
>removing the bodies from the ravine. Some archaeologists believe that the
>troopers are still buried somewhere in the ravine, although surveys of the
>site have failed to produce any evidence.

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