Spanish: Mines, Sighting Hole and Smelter (Uinta Mountains, Utah)
Spanish: Mines, Sighting Hole and Smelter (Uinta Mountains, Utah)
As always, if you find sites like this please don’t disturb anything and leave intact for the next adventurer to “rediscover”. Sometimes the greatest treasure is the chase itself.
If you love local, as well as Utah history, I recommend you visit Dale Bascoms website. His website has a wealth of information and is a great place to begin your adventure.
Here is the link: https://slimsgold.com/
**** I’m a big fan of the Danish National Orchestra and the work they have done remastering theme songs from Spaghetti Westerns. I originally used their music, but it turns out they have very stringent copy rights on their work, so I had to delete the original video. The video now includes music from the original composers. Sometimes the original is the best anyway.
Hope you enjoy the video.
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The Good, bad and the Ugly theme?
What about the lost josephine mine?
Great video beautiful area .potential
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My guess is a vein of something was takin out of that area. I took me many years to buy into the tree markings. I still believe there has to be stone monuments as well since tree’s are not permanent and can be blow over, get chopped down, become infected and have a set life span. Secondly i have always wondered how the spanish made it that far north. I have read Juan De Maria’s journal (1765) and the Dominguez Escalante journal (1776) and they both relied upon native guides. I can only think that perhaps not all of the codices were burned and the church had possession of a few that lead the way or they were following something much older in stone.
The reason so much labor was employed was because the guy running the show didn’t have to do any of the labor.
As a younger man, we used to hunt elk in this area. I have been to many of the spots you have shown. We were hunting and came across a cave (whole) very close to the gorge. Some stones appearing to be geodes were stached close by. I tried to find this a few years later but the area was fenced and the gate had a padlock on it. Now I’m to old to walk around much. As they say, I wish I knew then what I now now.
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Basinite, I liked your answer. I read the Book Fort Uncompaghre about Robudoux. You probably know the story about Mel Fisher backtracking gold form the Atoucha Shipwreck to the Uintah. The date on some of that finger gold bars was 1704, I think. I keep wondering when all the Ute enslavement occurred. A few Spanish trying to enslave a large number of Utes does not make sense to me. Sounds hokey. The Utes were never that easy, I don’t know why they don’t call BS on that. But they stay quiet about all the history which I think they know in much more detail than they would ever tell. The Spanish would have always been outnumbered. There was no mention in Colorado of the Southern Utes ever being so weak and to be made slaves. I think the Spanish stayed out of site, dodged the Utes and did not make trouble to stay alive.
No doubt you found something of valuable history here. I have found similar things in sycamore canyon. where when the anglos came they found crosses erected on hills (which they prompty cut down and claimed as their own.) Also in sycamore canyon a large cache of spanish armor, swords and other artifacts they wont name were found in a cave. These were removed and kept with the ranchers family until lost.
That was soooo neat. I enjoyed watching video it was very entertaining. Would you please continue to make more videos. I liked them a lot..😁😊👍
It has always been said that there isn’t enough mineralization in the unitias. Guess not
Fantastic video.
I’m crazy about your “Spaghetti Western” theme music. It is awesome, and worthy of the subject matter.
As far as this goes you’re. Looking at the wrong. Site oil. Paintings give a direct. Vision of the Josephine 2 . Inquire personally and its is to be shared.