utahshovelhead
Active member
I posted this about 6 months ago and thought I would re post it as lots of us were hunting like nunts and not on the Forum much.
I do not have any update on the story as I have not yet spoken to the guys involved.
This is a true story told as accurately as told me.
3-5 guys from Davis County, Utah, were riding there ATVs in the Unitas above Kamas heading out of a rain Storm spring of 2010. One of them spy's something shinning yellow in the muddy tire tracks on the trail. They find not one but three GOLD BARS. They are described as 1 inch by 5 or 6 inch's long and have Spanish marking on them. Most likely Spanish gold bullion bars made hundreds of years ago with the enslavement of many native Indians. Exciting and Cool find right? and something we would all love to do and experience.
But here is the rest of the story;
I heard about this and went to a local supply house where one of the finders showed employees pictures of there amazing finds. The story was confirmed and then the employee said but they bragged it up so much and showed the bars around so much that soon after finding the bars the Forest Service investigated and charged them with basically looting the antiquities of the National Forest under the Antiquities Act. They have confiscated the Bars ( I would like to know where they are and what will happen to them) and are prosecuting the finders. I have read about this kind of thing happening before. And Bars have been found in that part of the State before. Why are we so basackward here in the USA? They should of rewarded those finders handsomely as the forest service would never ever find something like that without paying 100 times more than its worth. Then they could [put it in a museum with the finders names and story attatched to it.
I don't want to start into it any more than that but every time this happens every one of us with that natural desire to pick up the shinny object we FOUND will never want to tell anybody about what could be a really cool find that others will enjoy. I am sure many great finds have been made but the finders were way careful not to share it with anyone else.
Great Find...Sad ending!
Be wise,
utahshovelhead
.
I do not have any update on the story as I have not yet spoken to the guys involved.
This is a true story told as accurately as told me.
3-5 guys from Davis County, Utah, were riding there ATVs in the Unitas above Kamas heading out of a rain Storm spring of 2010. One of them spy's something shinning yellow in the muddy tire tracks on the trail. They find not one but three GOLD BARS. They are described as 1 inch by 5 or 6 inch's long and have Spanish marking on them. Most likely Spanish gold bullion bars made hundreds of years ago with the enslavement of many native Indians. Exciting and Cool find right? and something we would all love to do and experience.
But here is the rest of the story;
I heard about this and went to a local supply house where one of the finders showed employees pictures of there amazing finds. The story was confirmed and then the employee said but they bragged it up so much and showed the bars around so much that soon after finding the bars the Forest Service investigated and charged them with basically looting the antiquities of the National Forest under the Antiquities Act. They have confiscated the Bars ( I would like to know where they are and what will happen to them) and are prosecuting the finders. I have read about this kind of thing happening before. And Bars have been found in that part of the State before. Why are we so basackward here in the USA? They should of rewarded those finders handsomely as the forest service would never ever find something like that without paying 100 times more than its worth. Then they could [put it in a museum with the finders names and story attatched to it.
I don't want to start into it any more than that but every time this happens every one of us with that natural desire to pick up the shinny object we FOUND will never want to tell anybody about what could be a really cool find that others will enjoy. I am sure many great finds have been made but the finders were way careful not to share it with anyone else.
Great Find...Sad ending!
Be wise,
utahshovelhead
.
