I was happy to be there for part of the filming! RIP Paul, Steve, and those who have gone before us!

Paul seemed like a good man. Rest in peace

Cannot believe I just came across this today. AWESOME work, real people, real history, and fascinated every second of it. Thank you for the hard work putting this together.

This is kinds of a long story.... I'm a Texas born Nevada,Utah and Idaho raised , my poppa was a farmer and we raised crops in our own farm and help out lots of other farmers just like they always helped us and everyone,... Yrs went by and I left the farm and started building my own future .... While I was still in Utah,I received a phone call that my maternal Grandma was bedridden and wanted to see me, I hadn't seen her in years , they told me to get to Texas asap cause grandma didn't look so good , thank God I got on a plane in SLC and flew to San Antonio then was picked up and driven to go see my grandma 1 last time .... After all the funeral/burial thing , I bought a truck to drive back to Utah , 4x4's are extremely affordable in Texas cause it's always dry so 4x4 is sort of useless in s.texas so they're really affordable... On my way back to Utah days later , I drove all the way from Laredo (my now hometown) to El Paso and there was "the last WHATABURGER in Texas" so I hobbled down lots of crap and hrs later while I was driving thru the New Mexico desert I had to do an emergency stop in the great outdoors to , and I'm being honest, to poop 💩 , after doing my business I started walking around where I had pulled over , just enjoying the view, mountains and the whole desert from a top of a hill I had sorta climed, while I was walking down the mountain next to the highway I saw a strange looking squared rock sticking out of the ground , so I picked it up , it was all sort of like a black stain/color/stuff all around it but you could tell it was a squared manmade piece,so I took it home , weeks later I remembered that thing and started cleaning it up with a wire brush since all that black ash fell of and turned out to be like a yellow bar which I gave to my father , this happend back in the 80s , bout 9 yrs ago I went thru a stroke a various heart attacks , got disabled and yrs later I finally got on my feet again, so I started cleaning out my dad's old tool shed and refound the piece I had given my father back 80s , and I swear on my father's tomb , I swear on my beloved mother's ashes and swear to God I've never had it checked out , I tried to years after I refound it ,by the people who I asked help just saw the pic and started claiming it was a man made bar of something and that I had melted that thing .... And to this day I still don't know what it can be , and honestly , it came to the point where I just told my sister that was gonna donate this piece to the state of New Mexico so they can check it out plus put it in some display just in case it turned out to be something important .... That's why I decided to post the piece I found with me holding it .... One thing I'm willing to do, health wise I'm not doing that good but after all this time trying to talk to someone about it , I decided that if any hunter or hunters would like to talk about taking a trip to this one place where this thing was found , maybe we can set something up, I'm no hunter , just found this piece (I'm holding it on my pic) but it's practically in the middle of nowhere New Mexico but that famous mountain where Doc Ness said to be lots of gold bars , well that one place I've been told it's just around the corner ...😊

The part talking about the rockslide where two rabbits came out from under some rocks, is exactly how discoveries are made. By being curious and intrigued he investigated “where did these rabbits come from?” Finds mine. Also the rockslide was most likely man made by Indians to cover its entrance. Concealing it

This is one of the best real treasure movies I've ever seen. I loved the History, landscapes, lakes and all the characters. It's just so sad that so many along the way passed on 🙏🕊💫 I'm going to watch more on this channel I just subbed. I really believe in my heart the darn Mormons need and should give back whatever they've taken from the UTE Americans . It doesn't belong to them they're not even from America they came over by boat from all over fleeing what was done to them and now doing to the Ute. God Bless All🙏❤🕊💫

Masterfully Done. Veins of pure gold running right through the whole thing.

Someone needs to travel to Spain and see what stories and rumors the old timers have regarding this part of the shared history.

The lost Rhodes mines are on Blind Frog Rance.

Love my grandpa chunky Murray

People don’t realize how dangerous the Indians were back then. Cause every story ends with the Spanish showing up to a mine, scouted a great spot in geology. Then the Indians will watch them for sometime until one morning at breakfast massacred. The Indians tend to also shove the bodies and their gold in a cave nearby also. It becomes an Indian Chief cache in this cave. Where victims are placed for entering area. Gold stacked up against wall.

Iv'e looked for the mine also. But the beauty of nature are much more richer.***

That silver vein runs 5000 oz to the ton my uncle found it years ago and I assayed it for him. He died a few years back and would never tell me the location, but I still have a piece of it somewhere. But I have found gold in those mountains back in my younger years maybe I'll go back when I retire next year but if I do it will be to go fishing.

call me crazy, but i believe in superstition/curses when it comes to ancient artifacts. i believe the gold mine is there, earth quakes, time, fire, rain have covered the location. i would love to explore that area and find the gold. but i like living another day. excellent historical video in all ways, the testimonials from witnesses, again the history. just a great historic video.

Why would they dynamite a wood door inside a mine?

Love the clip from the movie Mother Load.

Just an amazing history lesson and treasure hunt combined.

Do you still monitor this channel? I’d like to talk to you about it if you have time.

The church was given a chance to take a copper map but the church said no we don’t have documentation saying we own it. If the church was trying to keep places secret they would have took the map. A guy wrote a book about it.

Paul was one of those good souls. He obviously could have mined the silver and although not get rich, still could have made some decent profit. But to a lot of people. Its not whats in the land but whos been on it. Your entire history is based on that land. And who knows if there is or isn't gold there. But knowing what happens to any land that is actively mined in the modern methods or those of last century. Their would be no trace of whats been revered for generations. Just look at what what we've done from coast to coast just to make a few people wealthy. The forests of the Appalachian mountains are gone. The bison and elk that inhabited the entirety of the north are gone. The lakes and rivers are toxic where once you could drink from them. The mines in the west left mercury and arsenic in the streams and rivers. All for precious metals. Once they were extracted the land was left useless. Millions of acres devastated for a few people to get rich. It just doesn't make any sense. We called the indigenous Americans savages, in reality id say we were far more savage than anyone who set foot here. So Paul and his people are right. Don't let anyone know and preserve what you have. Rest in peace. You did your job.

Very Very Interesting!!!!!! Thank u for posting this!!!!!!

To me it looked like an oxide copper smelter not gold. There was probably some rich oxide copper ore near the smelter on the surface that they quickly exhausted.

I sure enjoyed watching, it was very interesting history..Thank you.

Everybody uses landmarks to get places the Spanish even knew cryptology and coded the maps. They would climb up to a high place and then sketch a land survey of area. Drawing a river or creek system from above. They also used stones wedged in trees along the way as the path to the mine. Other times they may find a gold vein on a hill with dense tree canopies so they will build a concrete structure that pokes out of canopy for others back in Mexico to see the landmark and find it. It is impossible to use words to send someone to a specific location without using landmarks. The only other way is numbers (coordinates)

You interview Boren in prison and never mention why he’s there😂

Awe... I was hoping that the Utah State archeologist Dr. Jones' first name happened to be; "Indiana." 😅

I recently posted a comment about your lost Rhodes mine video and just wanted to add that I have found gold in the Unitas, but just not in the area described in the book Faded Footprints. I've found it in Whiterocks canyon and about half way between the Bear River Ranger station and Mirror Lake. A word of caution, Whiterocks canyon is on the Ute Indian reservation. So any gold you find there, belongs to them. Furthermore you have to have permission from them to prospect there.

THAT was awesome , thank you

Fun y deeing Dan Lowe in this film so much younger!!! 😊 Still sound the same!!!!

Why would the Utes help the Mormons?

I find it ironic that the Spaniards were supposedly able to find abundant gold in Uinta area yet modern day people cannot.

No spirit would stop me from looking if I thot I could find the mine....

Great video. Ty

Gold is just a rare element; it's what you do with it that counts.

I lived in Vernal, Ut for many years. These are NOT pictures of Dry Fork canyon.

Cool fact. When I was a kid UTE headquarters use to be a casino but then the government of Utah said no gambling even on Indian land no gambling anywhere in the state of Utah

I have oare from old Spanish silver mines un Uintahs

I want gold. Why not?

Hard to mine gold in a Wilderness Area.

If that gold can wipe out the national debt it must be in the trillions. Highly skeptical. Ra

If there's that much gold and other precious stuff in "them that hills" then it should be used to pay the national debt, do good with it.

as if they are te first ones to explore those caves

i found a flur-da-le and 7 animal markings i wrote down the coordinance

Geologist are clueless. There is gold everywhere.

I just missed 40gold bars because I did not want to dog through bones l know where several of the mines are. JD

The accents are so thick in this video its next to impossible to follow what some of these guys are even saying. Subtitles would be helpful.

Fairy tale.same as every town butch Cassidy may or may not have passed through once is some how his home town✌🇺🇸

The gold was from California. Rhoades` wife and servant discovered it while washing clothes in a creek. Two years before the "discovery" at Sutters` Mill! Also by Mormons.

I wonder if touching and rubbing ancient petroglyphs actually degrades them? -Nah, a Ute showed me it’s okay as long as you don’t tell anybody. Seriously. That dude was desecrating the image/message just for his ego.

It’s mostly Indian land

permit to mine on our land. ute land i understand but us land belong to the people

yep you can trust the government just ask a native american

But it belongs to the Indians.

dynamite [earthquake]!!!!!!

If god made all things to be in harmony and a human finding gold is out of harmony why then did god create gold? It’s like Adam and Eve story. God said multiply and don’t eat this fruit to have an adult level of consciousness. You can’t have sex with the mind of a toddler or child. There’s the outlier nine year old that has a baby but most children don’t have kids. God gave two commandments that were contradictory to each other. They didn’t eat the fruit then they didn’t have kids, they ate and were kicked out but then had kids. Makes ya think why weren’t they kicked out for not having kids cause that broke one rule too? Maybe the guy was right god wants things to be in harmony but god definitely encourages disharmony by the way he setup this society. If you lived in harmony or bliss not knowing pain ya wouldn’t know joy. Like natives are against gold I get because they were slaves, but then a natives also took slaves from other tribes and sold natives to the Spanish or other tribes etc. it’s like if slavery and death made natives not like gold it makes ya wonder why did natives then continue to practice slavery if they were once slaves and they didn’t like slavery? I’ve never figured that out. Like you’d think the culture would have changed or been different

Hahaha Gold is not disharmony Gold is harmony don't be dumb

These tall tails are like all the rest...... A big lock, too much dynamite. Then some guy talking stories about ghosts hahaha. He prolly doesn't know the way to a mailbox. I call bs. People believe their own lies hahaha

I give you a thumbs down because it is in a national forest and it is against the law to take anything out

Bs. . Gone to by my now

I found the gold .i melted it down into a golden calf.

So the documentary end with the Host and Cowboy-Indian Paul digging and crawling they Broke-Back-Mountain!!! 😆😬🤮 Hahahahaha ..... When they were walking into that dinner near the end, I thought Paul was gonna regret

Talk about a anti religious BS video...