Show WILL NEW GOLD CAMP BE IN EASTERN GRAND COUNTY grand junction sentinel mining engineers of this city believe it is possible that the mystery gold field of western colorado which has been attracting statewide attention in the press of the last few days may be located either in the ruby canyon district or in the book cliff mountains says the grand junction sentinel of last saturday the report of the rich find was published in denver early in the week and has since been over the state and all of the 1 arge arge cities of the country the field is said id to be located near the colorado and utah border line and within ten miles of a railroad As the denver and rio grande western and uintah railroads are the only ones to cross it is believed possible that the new discovery is west of this city negrone ner ne r one of these lines although it could also be located in the southwest earner of the state george kunkle a well known local mining engineer will not be at all surprised if gold has har been discovered in the ruby cannon district near the denver and ro no grande western and wily a few miles west of grand junction the formations of that district and geological actions of the past according to kunkle make male the discovery of rich ores not at all impossible and have attracted many prospectors pro it is also possible that gold has been discovered in certain darts arts of the book cliff Moun mountains tams near the uintah railroad the fact that the field is located in a district which has not been worked for gold also pints to the section west of this city it is said that the new field has never been touched by gold mm min ng operations it was discovered by charles A smith mining engineer of denver who announces that the exact location will not be made known until dev work is started the field will within a few months be pro ducting mg a virgin ore of copper gold and silver of a very verv high value according tia to smith the deposit runs str tight into the mountainside and can be worked easily and economically omi cally the development work will be financed by dr abe carlstrum Cari strum J TL kersten and C D dubois min nea nc apolis polls minn capitalists who are now in the state many ls are to be found ui in the mountainous country to the west of grand junction but so far only traces of gold copper and silver have been diso discovered the main lode if af there as any never having been located in the past native copper has been found in fairl deposits in many places on clinion mesa and in the coate creek district and mines mmes have been established there but they never proved successful |