Show RED MENS GOLD UREE 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 tor for in a rich silver and gold deposit sliver silver sulphide sprinkled liberally with coarse gold although the indians were a constant st at menace the brothers got out of the place with three mule loads of 0 ore which they took to salt lake city and sold for the indians had warned them in no uncertain terms never to return to the mine but three years 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 ling 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 of the Rolle stones went out to hunt for it hut but cloudbursts had obliterated all signs of the diggings this may have been the same mine that caleb rhoads found lie he said at least that it was in the uintah reservation and that lie he had bad an understanding with the utes so that he would be unmolested if lie 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 18 years then he be 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 zell hunted for a long time for the mysterious mine he be never succeeded in locating it |