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[Kramerwy]

Does anyone have any info that would come from fifty mile mountain (also known as kaiparowits plateau) and the presence of the Spanish? Also anything on the native american tribes, settlers, etc. that have been in this area in the past couple hundred years. For those that are able to provide some info, thank you.

 

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[Kramerwy]

Don't pay attention to this post, am new to the forum and this post was put in the wrong area, sorry for the inconvenience

 

[cvdetect]

I just saw this post so sorry for the long delay, I do have one treasure story from that area it involves Jim Bridger and a cave with Spanish skeletons and armor. The source is questionable but it is an interesting story. I will post the story later today when I get home.

 

[cvdetect]

Here is the letter, I came across this while researching another treasure story, I filed it away and have not done much with it as the Author is not considered reliable. I redacted the name of the creek mentioned but it is in the fifty mile mountain area.

Mr. R. Clayton

Coalville, Utah

P.O. Box 282​

I should have answered your letter long ago, but I neglected it for I

have been busy. You wanted to know about caves. Many years ago Jim

Bridger, a Ute Indian and myself went down Green river, Grand and

Colorado rivers to where Virgin river empties into the Colorado

river in Nevada.

This was in the summer of 1868. We prospected all the way down

We had two Indian bullboats tied together. Where Curtis

creek empties into the Colorado, in the Orange Cliffs, we prospected

up the creek. It was in a small canyon on the east side of the

creek. The entrance was small at that time, there was lots

of brush grew in the canyon. We followed bear tracks to the cave.

We went into the cave with pine torches, but the would not burn

good so we did not explore it. It extended back into the cliff

we did not know how far, but we did not find the bear.

Where the .....................creek empties into the Colorado river,

the first big bend in the Colorado river above where this creek

comes in, we found a large cave, and explored it back for a

long ways but we never found the end. There was quite a

number of human skeletons, but the bones were very brittle, for

they had been there a long time. For there was Spanish armor

lying by the bones, and shields and flintlock guns and pistols

and one sword. The coat of arms of Spain was on all of these

dated 1730. I have wanted to go back to this cave and get these

articles but never did for the country is very mountainous and hard

to climb. The Indian would not go into this cave for he said the

evil spirits lived there.



Tom Rivington