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Spanish Treasure Symbols and Spanish Mission in Utah
I did not see a category where I could post this so I thought I would try here and see if there are any fellow treasure hunters out there.
A few years ago I was able to locate the entrance to the fabled "Water Trap", a place where the Spanish Conquistadores supposedly stored their gold and silver while mining in the High Uintahs. This tunnell was built next to the river and to gain entrance you would have to dive down through two water traps to get into where the ore was stored. I did not swim through it, but I am curious if anyone else has ever attempted it or know what I am talking about. There is also supposed to be the old spanish mission accross the river from the water trap entrance, but I did not get a chance to explore enough to locate it. Has anyone found any remnants of the mission? Here are a few pictures of the water trap and some spanish symbols carved nearby.
Footprints in the Wilderness
That is probably my favorite book on the topic, although it is still not very accurate as far as locations go.
Re: Mine east of Moon Lake
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Originally Posted by bigrockman
I only know of one mine south east of Moon Lake, but nothing directly east of it. Very rugged country. I spend a week up there every year and explore. I would like to check out the are you believe that mine to be in. How did you hear about it?
It was in a book I read, with the GPS coordinates. I can't remember the name of the book. Actually I think this was a little south east, but since our GPS was set up in a different system than the one in the book (I found out later) we could've been off substantially. But where we began hiking up was a little south of the dam. I'll try to find that book again and see exactly what it says.