Historic Mysteries of Western Colorado by David P. Bailey

Author:David P. Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

COLLBRAN MYSTERY FLOOR

In June 2005, the newly formed WIT decided to explore the mystery of an ancient floor discovery near Collbran, Colorado. Dr. Mike Ryan told the story of the mystery floor to WIT director David Bailey while they were staying at Tom Kenney’s cabin with their families. Ryan said Kenney found the buried floor near the cabin while digging a cellar. Bailey believed it would be a great mystery for the Western Investigations Team to research if they could find more information about the floor’s exact location. WIT researcher Susan Corey, while working at the Museums of Western Colorado’s Loyd Files Research Library, found a May 3, 1937 article describing the mystery floor.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported that archaeological evidence of a prehistoric civilization was discovered at the Kenney Ranch, north of Collbran. The newspaper article gave a description of the floor:

The find consists of a beautiful and carefully laid pavement made of flat hewn blocks of sandstone neatly fitted together. The work is 8 feet below the surface of a long gentle slope with an altitude of 7,148 feet above sea level. The stones plainly show they have been worked and fitted together. They are laid in straight lines and shaped to one another in a manner that is strikingly like modern masonry. At one corner of the tiled pavement was found a spring and the stones are perfectly rounded off to form an opening through which to dip water. His [Tom Kenney’s] excavation now is about five feet wide and ten feet long. The entire work was covered with river deposit eight feet in thickness. The sandstone blocks are all about 4 inches thick and are matched perfectly.

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