Show RED MENS GOLD brothers named rollestone Rolle sione THREE went into the uintah basin in the GOs in search of gold they found more than they were looking for I 1 in n a rich silver and gold deposit silver sulphide sprinkled liberally with coarse gold although the indians were a constant menace the brothers got out of the place with three mule loads of ore which they took to salt lake demand and sold for the indians had warned named them in no uncertain terms never to return to the mine but three years sears later they took five mules and went back for more of the ore they mined enough to load their animals and were about ready to go back to civilization again when the indians appeared once more exactly what happened no one has been able to say but the indian version of the affair was that the brothers fell into the duchesne river and the weight of the gold in their pockets held them under and caused them to drown the mules simply disappeared after this the place remained unmolested for years at last a relative ot of the Rolle stones went out to hunt for it but cloudbursts had obliterated all signs of the diggings this may have been the same mine that caleb rhoads found ile he said at least that it was in the uintah reservation and that he had bad an understanding with the utes so that he would be b unmolested it if he kept the place a secret it Is certain that men who tried to follow him were fired on by unseen persons rhoads made a trip into the unknown region every year for IS 18 years then he died A man named hartzell married the widow in hopes it may be of inheriting the mine but she did not know the location and although hartzell hunted for a long time for th the e mysterious mine he never succeeded in locating it |