About 15 miles southwest of Dove Creek on Monument Canyon there is a
good spring called Oak Spring, near which are several piles of stones
indicating former buildings, the largest of which, about a quarter of a
mile away, has a central depression with surrounding walls now covered
with rock or buried in soil or blown sand. Very large piñon trees grow
on top of the highest walls of this ruin, the general features of which
recall those at Bug Spring, though their size is considerably less. In
the surface of rock above the spring there are numerous potholes of
small size. One of these, 4 feet deep and about 18 feet in diameter, is
almost perfectly circular and has some signs of having been deepened
artificially. It holds water much of the time and was undoubtedly a
source of water supply to the aborigines, as it now is to stock in that
neighborhood.