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Figure 17. — Ground plan of the site of the west half of the South Barracks, Fort Stevenson, 



showing excavations of 1951. 



ably in the process of obtaining earth by horse scraper for the root 

 cellar of 1915. In this area, except at the one corner mentioned, no 

 adobe-brick wall remains were found on excavation, and little else than 

 the lower parts of the stone masonry footing remained (pi. 39, a). 

 Even this footing had been partially removed, either in the earth mov- 

 ing, or to obtain stone for masonry elsewhere, after the destruction of 

 the buildings. The surface of the whole site was covered with rather 

 sparse weed growth at places in which the rubble heaps had furnished a 

 poor location for grass (as in the area of the West Wing), and with 



