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Show Pet. eS uate? t — UTAH OLLEGE 0] MASSAGE Fi Ca) el Peete eM c= Klis) PL an unbeatable way eae alt to get a relaxing massage at an price - ally 5 ck L Bay Pe : cra your cord Bett Bee Peet es: massage Remains of an old miner’s cabin PHOTO BY BILL CONNELL you and torture of an Native American man at our weekend| for a small quantity of gold. According to the story, gold nuggets were given to — braves as a token of their passage into manhood. Only the medicine man student clinic. When you've collected ~ five stamps, redeem your card fora | FREE massage and T-S hirt anytime on. Cy = ay pres Te 31, 2000! knew the exact location of the gold. The Spanish captured one Native American with gold—also the son of the chief—and demanded he tell them where he got the gold. In typical conquistador manner, they tortured the him the respect of the Ute Chief Wakara. Long before, Wakara had received a vision that one day white men would come needing “money rock,” and that until that time Chief Wakara was to save the gold. Wakara agreed to tell one person of the location of the Carre-shin-ob. Since Brigham was consumed with his position as church leader, he chose one man—Thomas Rhoades—to collect this gold. Wakara ~ young Native American man to death. When the chief learned of his son’s death he drove the Spaniards out. Bloodshed is common in the early stories of gold. The Spanish enslaved the Indians; the Native Americans mas= Pick up yo your nex r ‘epee card on visit to UCMT! sacred Spaniards to free themselves from Spanish subjection. The stories tell | of bloody struggles and the loss of many Indians lives. If you believe in this early Spanish presence, then this loss of lives and blood blends well with the story. The Indians paid for their freedom with the blood of their own. To the Native Americans, gold was sacred. The Native American name for the sacred mines appears to have been Carre-shin-ob (though it was not verified : by the Tribal Council). They also called it “money rock,” and they never quite understood white man’s obsession with 16 | SEPTEMBER 14, 2000]83 Layton - 1992 W. Antelope Dr. Suite 3D Layton, UT 84041 801-779-0300 Clinic Hours: Sat. 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Sun. 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Salt Lake City Utah Valley 25 South 300 East 135 So. State Street, Suite 12 Lindon, UT 84042 801-796-0300 Salt} Lake City, UT 84111 801-521-3330 Clinic Hours: Sat. 8:00 am - 5:30 pm ‘Sun. 7:30.am - 5:00 pm ‘Clinic Hours: Saturday Only it. Back then, they didn’t have the white man’s problem of “gold fever.” Fast forward to the Latter-day Saints. Now the story blends history and religion into one, making it vulnerable to a two-sided attack. A Mormon friend, esteemed and studied enough in the church to serve as bishop, had never heard this version of Mormon history— either that, or he was covering something up. After all of these conflicting stories, paranoia—a milder version of _ what the miners must have felt—may have been setting in. 7:00 am - 9:30 pm The Legend of Thomas Cannot be combined with any other coupon or offer. All five massages must be purchased at our regular price of $25. Card must be redeemed for your free massage and Tshirt on or before December 31, 2000. No cash value. Card is non-transferable. 800-617-3302 www.ucmt.com Rhoades The story goes as follows: When Brigham Young arrived in Utah Valley, he pursued a kinder policy with the Indians; he thought it better to feed them than to fight them. This won An Authentic Spanish Map? Here’s a start for your prospecting: an old Spanish waybill with directions to the mother lode, circa 1722. It’s been authenticated, according to Stephen Shaffer (although he does call it a “waybill” in quotation marks, raising suspicions). Here is the trans- lation: This Waybill ee to the Mine of the Utes, called later the Josephine de Martinique. This Mine can be found, West twelve leagues of the River Timpanogos headland and two leagues from the mouth of the River Santa Anna to the Southeast—to travel one league to the South through native land of valley grass to a canyon which enters the valley from the East. Follow this canyon East to a peak round and bare of growth, and from the peak measure 1600 varas to the Northeast. At the mouth of the Mine there are some small rocks and brush coverage at the base of a small 1 dark ledge... The Mine of the Josephine has 3 tunnels and 1 shaft- two tunnels of 400 varas run to the West and one tunnel runs to the Southeast ... The | shaft has ... four rooms and six tunnels. These rooms to be used as work- shops for the transfer of the mineral silver and gold. |