The Arrow Tree Gold Cache

 

I was going through my files and suprisingly enough, I have not written an article on this story yet, it can however be found in my second book The Treasures of Utah, anyway, I decided to reproduce it here today....

Back in the early days I recall meeting a man whom I will not name, who has since passed on... a man who for his entire life it would seem had been chasing the Spanish Gold. This day he had asked a mutual friend to join him and they wanted me to come along. This man supposedly knew allot about the area I had been taken. It was explained to him that my interests were in the Petroglyphs and pictographs and specifically Native American glyphs. But this was not what he heard. An hour or so into the trip and showing us some things that quite frankly seemed trivial, he turned to me and said, “I have something to show you, lets see just how much you know, follow me.” I hopped into my truck and followed him for a distance where he pulled over and motioned me and my freind to follow on foot.

We walked for about 100 yards to a small grove of Quaking Aspens and he stops and points to a tree about 30 feet away, and says somewhat antagonistic “whatta ya think that means smarty pants!” I thought, buddy you don't know me well enough to be calling me smarty pants, but he was old at the time and I have thick skin so I let it slide without comment... I looked at the tree having 12 arrows carved up it, one above the other starting from about 2 to 3 feet off the ground and extending about 15 feet up the tree and at the top, some strange symbol.

The Arrow Tree

I applogise but these photos from 25 years ago were taken by one of the first sony digital cameras.

My friend Shane Green core dating the tree and my two older boys...

If you recognise this tree which I am sure still exists, you are/were 12 paces from where at todays value would have been hidden 

approx 24 million.

I starred at it for a moment and said, aw that’s easy,.... oh really? He indignantly said, well what does it mean? I told him it means stand next to the tree and walk 12 paces in the direction the arrows pointed. At this point he acted almost disgusted and frustrated, rolled his eyes and I thought for a moment he was going to walk over and slap me, then he said quite insistently, “Go over there and do it!” So I did and wading through the fall tall grass and on the 12^th step, if I had taken it, I would have stepped in a hole about 3 feet deep and about 2 foot wide by 3 feet. Next to this hole was two flat pieces of red sand stone obviously used for a lid of which no red sandstone could be found in the area in fact I still can’t think of where any red sandstone can be found anywhere near that area. At this I said, well, It looks like someone got this one before you. Now seemingly upset he loudly responds, “Ya and had I brought you here a year ago it would be mine!” I felt like saying, don’t you mean ours?

It turns out that a year prior two men had found about 9 40 lb bars of Gold in that little cache. I tell this story for the experience, I knew at this point this is not the kind of person I choose to hunt with, although a great guy, his lust for gold is more than even he can stand and quite frankly his life would seem to be wasted.

This individual is one of them that carries with him every where he goes what is referred to as a long range gold finder of which there are many types, to this day I have never seen positive results from a one of them, in my mind they are a waste of time, don’t be suckered into buying one. If they actually worked do you really think the inventor who often drives an old beat up truck or car would be selling them? Why didn’t this LRG work for this man who was very insistant that it does work and who had been coming to this tree for near 4 years prior and not knowing that just 12 steps away were these gold bars? The answer is obvious and I could share several experiences pertaining to these deception devices. It isn’t that I do not believe in the concept, I myself can find water lines by dowsing, and I am certain some one out there has the gift to find gold and/or silver, I just haven’t found any one yet, I must admit there are two of my friends that have hit closely to some things but stll no undeniable success.

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