Uintah Basin Record Sept.. 27th. 1935


                              Red Men's Gold

Three brothers named Rollestone went into the Uintah Basin in the 1860's, in
search of gold. They found more than they were looking for in 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 city and
sold for $20,000.
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 ore.
They mined enough to load their animals, and were about ready go back to
civilization again, when the Indians appeared once more. Exactly what
happened no one has been able to say, but the Indians version of the affair
was that the brothers fell into the 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 Rollestones went out to hunt for it. But cloudbursts had obliterated all
signs of the diggings.
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This may have been the same mine that Caleb Rhoades found. He said, at
lease, that it was in the Uintah reservation and that he had an
understanding with the Utes so that he would be unmolested if he kept the
place a secret. It is certain that men who tried to follow him were fired on
by unseen persons.
Rhoades made a trip into the unknown region every year for 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 along time for the mysterious mine he never succeeded in locating
it.




Milk Lake

Uintah Basin Record Sept. 15 1933

MT. EMMOMNS FARMERS BUILD A RESERVOIR

C.H Hartman and sons and S.K. Daniels, have just returned from the mountains
where they spent the past five weeks constructing a reservoir to insure an
adequate water supply for their farms.
The dam for this is a masonry construction and is located at Milk Lake high
up in the Uintahs. This should prove itself a great boon to these farmers in
the future.
The men employed were: Leonard Goodrich, Vose Mower, Cliff Lisonbee, C.C.
Syndergaard, W.E. Darnley and Bruce, Max and Floyd Hartman. Mrs. Floyd
Hartman accompanied her husband and was employed as book-keeper.

Researched by: Darrel Spreck