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Although undue weight should not be put upon evidence of the 

 composition of the specimens from this building site, these specimens 

 do not, in general, suggest actual occupation of the building as a 

 dwelling as much as its use in the trade, probably as a combination 

 storage and sales building. It is scarcely surprising that larger objects 

 such as would have been needed in such a trade building were missingr 

 upon excavation, since valuable tools and furnisliings of that nature 

 would hardly have been abandoned with the discontinuance of trading 

 here. The cultivation of the site after abandonment also helps to 

 explain the removal of larger objects, such as might obstruct agri- 

 cultural operations. 



The location within the stockade of this building, and its size, 

 character, and associated specimens, also suggest that the building 

 was not primarily a dwelling. It had, beyond question, originally been 

 divided into rooms (though no clear evidence of their precise dimen- 

 sions was found) , and some of these may from time to time have been 

 used for living purposes. If, as in 1860 appears to have been the case, 

 as many as 17 persons sometimes resided at this post, some of these 

 may occasionally have dwelt here. The lack of evidence of any other 

 building sufficiently large enough to accommodate stored goods and 

 provide for trading operations, however, is noteworthy. 



Little information was obtained from the area excavated adjacent 

 to the northwest angle of the stockade, which was at first believed 

 to be the site of a building (House-site C), data such as might have 

 established the use of the immediate area. Structural data at this 

 point comprised only incomplete sections of refilled trenches lacking 

 timber remains, connected with the main stockade trenches, and one 

 large post butt and random wood fragments. Specimens from this 

 area were likewise few in number and uninformative. They include 

 a quantity of nails, window-glass fragments, some domestic debris, 

 and a few personal objects. It is probable that long cultivation here, 

 as at other points within the whole site, had destroyed most of the 

 structural data sought, and that such specimens as were obtained 

 had been much displaced by cultivation. 



The site of one other structure (cellar A) was partially investigated 

 by hand excavation. This was the site of an earth- walled cellar, which 

 was sectioned after part of the disturbed surface materials had been 

 removed to expose the outline of the pit. Prior to excavation, this 

 site had been pointed out by Miss IMarjorie Breeden (now of Compton, 

 Calif.), whose parents had formerly owned this property. Miss 

 Breeden recalled that she and others had frequently found small relics 

 in this general area in the past, including a gun fragment at one time 

 owned by Mr. Harold Breeden, a brother. 



TVlien the surface soil had been removed, it was seen that the original 

 cellar pit had been almost entirely refilled, largely with random earth, 



