Show 1 TWO THOUSAND THERE The Rush of GoldSeekers to the San Juan Continues Cf l Joe Bush Has Been Thcro and Talks about the Country Colorados Attempt At-tempt to Steal the Placers A miner from the San Juan conntry who passed through here yesterday told Joe Bush that there were between 2000 and 3000 men now in the district with more arriving every day He said that it was a gooa mining country and gave it as his opinion that with further prospecting prospect-ing the fields would fully justify all the predictions that have been made Mr Bush is about as familiar with the I San Juan country himself He visited it I as a deputy marshal scores of times and brought back the report that the country was rich in gold but nobody paid any I attention to him The region has for years been a favorite rendevouz for crim male and desperadoes and Mr Bush says 1 I that this stampede will be a God send to the country as it would ultimately rid it of those objectionable characters and lead I to the development of its various resources re-sources He will leave for the gold fields in about two weeks I COLORADO NOT IN I There is an effort on the part of the i Colorado press to appropriate the new discoveries in San Juan and this effort I appears to have deluded one of the Salt Lake newspapers into crediting this great I gold find to the Centennial state Yesterday I Yes-terday morning this journal startled its I readers by publishing a glaringly inaccurate inac-curate map of the new placer country in San Juan and Colorado The fact is that the great placer belt is fully 100 miles west from the Colorado line and every acre of it is Utah soil it is also west i f the Continental divide and Contnental I tributary 10 Salt Lake city and the only feasible way of getting to this gold country coun-try is from Green River a town which twentyfour hours distant from Denver I Den-ver and only a few hours ride from Salt Lake City or by way of Salina about the I same distance This effort of the enterprising Colora dianslto stealiour thunder and credit is in 1 keeping with its policy in attempting to convert Utah into an Indian reservation I and in return swallow up this great mining I min-ing boom |