An Historical Study of the Koyle Relief Mine, 1894-1962

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1962

James R. Christianson Brigham Young University - Provo

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AN historical STUDYSTTJDY OF THE KOYLE RELIEF mineoMINE lq189419621894 1962

A thesis presented to the faultyfac altyulty of the department of history Brigbrighainbrighajnhainhajn young university

in partiapartial fulfillment of the requirements for trie degree master of arts

by james Ppo christiansc istiansonon janejuneaunejumeaume 1962.1962 acknowledgments

the writer is deepdeeplyy grateful tobo the numerous sources of encouragement information and careful criticism which have contributed to the preparation and completion of this work of speciaspecial1 mention are the contributionsontribut ionslons of the writers advisory committee consisting of eugene Eeo campbell and gustive 000oo larsonlamsonlarsonolarsuno their clarifying suggestions have done much to improve the scholarship of this studiostudystudyo ibethetherhe unqualified cooperation of numerous koyle mining company representatives office personnel of the latter day saint church library and the utah state securities commission is both respected and appreciated the early corrections of mrs mary cornaby the wwritersriters high school english teacher were of great value as an original soursouresourcee of 4inspiration at thenohe time this project was undertaken dutinedurineutinguringdaringduring the spring of 1957 he also expresses appreciation to a helpful and understanding wife as veliweweliveilveliwell11 as to spveralseveralverai patient qualified typisttypiststypistsoso

illlit111 TABLE OF CONIENTSCONTENTS

page acknowledgments 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 iii

LIST OF iuustratronstlljstratrons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 vi chapter

10 iclo INTRODUCintroductionTI ON 00 00 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 statement of the problem jxstifijustiflationatlon of problem extent of previtlpreviolpreviousis research sources used arrangement of chapters

II11 0 THE HISTORY OF THE KOYLE RELIEF MINE TO 1949 INCLUDING perlinperrinPERTINPERTINENTFYr FACTS FROM THE LIFE OF

JOHN HYRUM KOYLE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 6 ancestry and earlyearby life of john hyrenhyrwnhyruro koyle early interest in the supernatural the dreldrewdream of 1894 189418941914i914 191419261914 1926 the platinum boom 192919491929 1949 the long years

CHURCH TO THE MINE 0 0 0 0 4040 tilTIIiiiodiio opposition 0 0 0 0 the latter day saint church and the koyle relief mine yaneyune ivoIV 0 government opposition TO THE MINEmune 00 00 0 6060

V 0 THE KOYLE RELIEF MINE IFIN THE LIGHT OF

MORMON FOIXIOREFOLKLORE 00 0 00 0 00 00 0 00 0 00 00 00 0 788

summary

VIvioL RELATED MINING VENTURES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 89 sizmarsujnmalyy

ivIV TABLE OF CONTENTS continuedonti nued

VII 0 THE KOYLE RELIEF MINENUNE AND

THE ORDER OF AARON 0a 00 00 00 00 00 0 0a 0 0 00 00 0 00 0 100 the aaroniaarona order andor the order of aaron teachings peculiar to the order of aaron the dreandream min an appendage to the order of aaron summary

THE KOYLE 0 vilVIIVIIIjo RELIEF KNEMINE 1991949 too 19621962 0 0 0 0 0 0 1133

ixoIXcixo conclusions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 121 apparent incortsisinconsispniest eniesenles in the dream mine story 1 assay reports 2 early ProductproductionJondon 3 purpose of the mine 4 signifsigniasignificanceicanceacance of thehe originalorlOrigiral shaft 5 when and brby whom should the mine produce 6 ciscelmiscelmiscellaneouslaneous

7retrieritreeniare Drdreameairlearri Mminene kran outgrowth of mormon culture 1ti1 RrpvelalienPve 1.1 aticn 2 wealth boldgeldgold mines

john ho koyekoyle irieiciethe lifeline c-cff the dream mine summaryy bibliography 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16146

APPENDIX 00 00 0 0 e 0 00 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 0 00 60 0 00 00 0 00 0 150

ABSTRACT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1751712

v LIST OF illustrations figure page

1lo10 the dream mine mill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 vii

220 john hyrum koyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 00 00 0 5aaa

330 the mountain where the mine is located 0 10150 440 A sketch cfof the envisioned and actual 151 workings of the koyle mining company 0

vi 1&

trethyteytegTRZTHE ORBAYDREAM UIHBMINE MILL CITAPIERCHAPTER TY

introduction

it cascades down the mountain side angangularllarliaralar and modern A temple to manusonmanunonmaznmon such as you may see in the industrial districts of any american city but here on the bleak slopesiope of utah valley to the east on Uuo S 91 tthisnishis smokeless smelter lonely and majestic seems not in L keeping with its surroundings I1

statementStatem nt of problem for many pearsyearsear person tkavctravchrallngling on Uue Sso highway 91 through southern utah county or U Sso highway 89 near spanish fork canyon have observed an imposing white edifice situated on the mountain side about two miles east of the vilviivillagelage of salem many perhaps have ronaonwonderediondered at the significance of this structure the winding mountain ascending road above it and the few buildings slsurgroundingxroundingrounding ititeito if an opportunity for inquiry had occurred the travelers would likely havenave beer tid that the objects of their curi- osity were the external evidences of john kayteskbyteskoylevs dream minemineo there wculdwould then follow a ratherrattiermathermattlermathier garbled hearsay aoaciountaccountauntount of the mine its founder and its purpose 2 since tneane authauthorDr found thetneane above possibipossibility1 ity to be far more real than fiction it was detedeterminedrtrined ihrougntrirougn this stadystudy tcto bring into a reason- able whole as far as they carcan be astertainedascertainedpertainedertained the facts of the history of thetae koylekeykoyie relief mineningmineoming

austin fife and a-altaaitaa fife saints of sagebrush and saddle bloombloom- ington indianaurllindiana unio pre-presss i9161916l956pp7pa 22819 1 thernephepne authauthorr grew up in a dream mine conscious environment and at an early age noted that many people knew something about therhe mine but few

knew wery 1 vague very much and what thethevchevI did knoinovknov was and uncertainuncertainouncertaino 2 justification of the problem it Is felt that such an undertaking is both worthwhile and necessary As the years pass less and less of the original story will be remembered and eventually the facts of an interesting if not significant event in utah history will be j rretnevablyjrretrievab1y lost in justification of this study as a serious topic for a thesis re- quiquirementrement may it be said that the writing of history is not a matter of picking and choosingchoochoosingosingo history shouldshouid be recorded as far as possible exactly as it occurredoccurredooccurredo Historaihistoric events which ttouo asus appear to be neither realistic nor true were perhaps very realistic and very true to those who experienced themtherrio strip history of its minor incidents and you have a colorless often unrelated seriesserlesseraisseraes of events which fail to relay to the students mind either an understandingundertnderstandingstanding or an appreciation of hishistoryhistorystorys significancesignificancessignificanceo of serioussenous note is tlethe fact that the livesilves and property of a great 3 many persons almostai nostmost all of wnomwenom are or have beelbeerbeen members of the church

of jesus christ of latter day saints 9 have been profoundly effected by the mine and its founder it is felt that since this program has been

3sincesince the purpose of the mine as is discussed later was to benefit the church of jesus christ of lattlattererdayer day sairsseirssaints original stock salessades were made to nutchhurch members onixonlyorjlye in time a small number of non members and a few apostates of this chchurcnchurchchuranurch obtained shares from individual stockholders 4interviewinterview with mrsarsomrso elseiselsieeisiee kaylekoyle july 4 1960 a daughter in2 n lavlaw of john Hho koyle and secretary of the koylekeykoyie mining company for many years MY mrsMYss 9 do many members koyle claims 1 as others that over 6000 of the above- mentioned church hav nadriad some direct association withluhith the minemineo 3

I1 fully guca .1 ablebieableabie to successfullysuocessfullysuccess fuiful ly attract ardandaraana holdd suchsuea a large1 body of devout stockholders adand do so in tdetneane face of organiorganizedi zed opposition from both the harchhurchhurehcharchchurch and state itir is surely worthy of greater attentionI1 titan the casual and often stainfuLdistainfuldisdainfuldi treatment accorded it thus farfarofamo

extent of previous research with the exception of a few brief articles no serious history of the mine had been ratenwrittenr aten uniunt loilow july 1981958 9 when some two hundred copies of the dream mine story by norman C pleice5pierce were circulated in mime- ographed formformoyorm this is a reminiscent account of the life of john Hho koyle with emphasis on his claimed revelations and the supposed persecutions of the mine and its fotfolyotfounderyounderinderandertnder by the church and staestate itiz is a creditable work in some respects but its emctionaemcylioriadioria b asa in favor of the mine is ex- rrtremeeme the publication was obviously notnor intended to be scholarlyschobarlylarly and a reading of it has served only t encourage ththe author to greater effort in presentpresentingtinggingwing thezhe actual facts of the historyhis toro

scsourcesarcesurces itsedttseditsek

19111914191.4 .9 e injn a purported vision of 9 koskojkoseadyekdyekoye claimed that two personages who appeared to him instructed himnim not to keep a writtwrittenen account of his experiences in omierionomierionerlon with ththe& minemineo to ranerneranc knowledge of his family

wenom and associates 9.9 none of 4nomwnom aitemptedattempted TO keep record either he remained true tocc this chareechargecnargco Apparentapparentlylyoiyo as a resaltresultresuit of this instruction no diaries minutesrainotles of meetingsmeet inesings held or crlorioriginal1 ginal accounts in any form were

r t keptkepr byb- thethiethle owners and operators tethiethle mirmin 0

5pierceppiercepiereepierce hashae been associated ithhithnithwith the mine from his youth since 1950 he has become one of the largest stockholders in the mine and one of itsAs ststrongestr niesingesi advocatadvocatesadvocatessadvocatesoeso among the seseveraiseveralseverahveraiveral articles which have been written con cernirzcernicernirgcernitzrg ttl he mine are two interesting poems whichihwhihh present a descriptive pic- ture of the proposed purpose and futifuturelretre of the enterprise see appendix iliillIIIillo111 4

tethe files of the Cctturchartart h of jesus christ of latter day saints and rheche utahstarestase sbare securities commission containonta 2l-i ome aerialsmaterialsma erials concerning their relationrelationsniprelationshiprelazionsnipsnip thith thehe mine and its founder this materiamaterial1 has been very useful to the autrorautnerautautnorrorlorlof local and state newspapers have also been very valuable sources of iinformrfformationationo

the writings of the aforementioned norman C pierce and a cor granta6 7 A respondenrespondedrespondencee bebetweeniweensween carter Cco grant6grant and jamesjarriesjarrles Eeo talmage an apostle8inapostle in the latter day saint churchchurchy were very helpfulhelpfulo the latter concerns an investigation of the minew1newane made by grantgran and reported to talmage markymanymarvy informal interviews have served as a chief source of informsinformainformal tion for the writing of this history in addition to their significance however they have presented an immense problem of evaluation As would be expected theyrhey who were close to the mine and its founder are often very biased and tend to remember far more of the history than they who were officially concerned with it since the former group far out number the latter it has been difficult to obtain other than a biased version of some significant factsfactsofaciso where this hasteenhasbeenhas been the case the author was careful to accept only those statements which were verified by a number of sourcessoursourcesoceso

6 6carteracartercarter C grant was one of the earliest advocates of the koyle mine he at one time considered it to be the most significant event in the pioneer history of the LDS church he recently dissolved all material connection with the koyle enterpriseenterprisesenterpriseo interview with carter C grant june 19 1959 7 7jaxnesjajnesjarnesjaenes E talmage was the latter day saint church official assigned to investigate and keep abreast of the affairs of the koyle mining company interview with elder mark E petersen junejonejume 27 1960 Q 8anaanan apostle is one of the quorum of twelve men who stand next to the first presidency a quorum of three men in the leadership in the LDS church j-

arraarrangementgement cfF chapters

the first chaptercnapter berbeodbeadgloVID d the introductionintrrinterduc 1 rion is so arranged as TO

present a historical chronology of the mine 0 beginning with the birth ofdf its underlounderfounderIo john Hho kchoylkoylripyieyle and concontinconlincontinuingllinuinguing to the time cfof his death in 1991949 theyne next to chapters omplimomplimeter thlims cironoiogychronologyo they are kept separate from it injn order abatahathat theehehe view of allaliallailali pattiesparties concerned might be

cleclearlycieclearlyariyarlyaray iunderstood the 0 cledeeldealdeai mallmailcalrumajrmalru witciwitch tiree position of the church and state in regard tc rhethiethebhe mtrtemartemineo

an explantexplanaekplanatiianionlonicnn of the miremine inri terms of mormon folklore comprisecomprises tneane next qaptercfiapterocapternapterqapter this iiss fcfeuIIlovediiowedowed bjb r a chapter relating the mine to sim-

ilaa minminigminingig ven iresadesuresazes 1 n IDSLDS curCour ur n hzrubtrustrustoryocoryoY A hadhaperhaphadethader er considering the in 9 endedmended connecticnconnectionconnizcticn cfof minmine irL i sr aalledailedled order of aaron is nextneatonexto chaneychadeychanerchapter nimbernumber elgaelgdeigrit consideconsidersdesidednside rsi s ttietlele acactivitlesactivitiestivit es of ttethe mine in recent vvc arsarso

theibe onlysiononlusionon lusion isi imerpretlvinain4lerprelerpee ti ve and dedeaideala LSs the authorauthors views on

gnp T thet he rrmininalnainp gagainedned as a sajsjj of tephe1 stsstditdsta 0

taherahe t attie9ttiethe order cfof aaro iis ara adoapoaposaeaposaetatate fardonI1ca dl n of the LDS churciichurchy aichnichniehhichwhich E a i va r countyv mp 1 e sinceito 194igo943j has been amparamparaivemparaara v0 I active iri ttoe salt lake and utah count arecaharecasareasoareano bishop john H koyle prophet of the reliefreilerbelief mine better known as the dream mine c e

4 t-

HAPTERCHAPTER I1 E

THE HISIORVHISTORY OF THE KOYLE reliarellarelinRELIEF MINE TO 1949 INCLUDING pertine91PERTINENT1 FACTS FROM THE LIFE OF JOHN byrumHYRUM koneKOHEKOYLE

1 ollonionlyir rarely carlcariearlcanean a given eventeven hhisrricai s tr Alcaaca lL or otherwise be said to have occurred spont-spontaneouslyospontaneousaneo siyslylyoiyo norma1normailnorgailnormaa lvly something which happens is preprecipitateddpitated by sodscmsomsemesomee previous happening of a likelikeilkebike or related nature

Jac brue h this isjs partparticularlyui&r1 L ruetruebruerue in field of histoiyhistoryilstoryc

the basic rudiments of tnemeane ccrizcorizconstitutionL lution did not suddenly take root

ax daurau .9 weirwazwax oc jx in the minds of its thorsrauthorsau hors 9 ncrnor did thetrie civil ur as a result of

southern fir being diredirc d on fort samplersamptersumpter 0 in a ilkelikelike manner the hlstoryhistory of the koyroykoepkoyekoypgoyele reliefbeliefbellef min did not lave jtsitsatsJ r incinelneieptionseptionptioneption with the dream of its founderfoilrfoieriderlder whiwhir h leetlees t he ffrstarst2 r s7sa spade of dirt being taken from the mountain sidesideodideo

4 na itir is feteitteltfeltfeitit hereforeherefordterefjreherefore t-thathal1 some sg lfralfr artant eventseven4us from the life of johnjolin harhvrhyruirm kcylelkolekoie mineming fcallerfolenderfoljnder and firmifcrmifurmerfurmey di resorre torsorzor rrjurajudustmustt be included

injn the history 0of the mnm nl in raertraerbraer7raer seseiseo 1 r ardprdproperper uundernders tandircandirtandland inelneingig of itst s

development 0

ancestrancestorAncestr r andarid earleareark r litelife f joajdajoufo fu ililiyflyhrumarumrum koyle among the earlsearisearly nvertscnerzsc averts to the chtchictiijrcnarchlrch of jesus christ of latter 1 day saints verwerwertverewere two voungvoouumbung men hyram holekolehotefa-kalehaieie a-arldandrid silas Hillhii1manhillmanehillmayemanemano in 183918395

1hereaftezhereafter refreyreferredred to asa latlaterlafererdayer day saints churchurhchuchh LDS church or mormon chuichchuxchcharchochurcho 7 they and their families were a part of the general gathering of the exiled nauvoo 2 saints in illinois 9.9 the newly founded zionzionoaiono with the forceful eviction of nhethedhe church from nauvoo in 1846 koyle and hillman submitted to the leadership of brigham young and joined in the mass exodus to the vestwestvestowesto As directed they remained on the plain of iowa until 1852 when they joined the edward hunter company and moved to salt lake citycityocilyo As a part of the colonizing program of the churchchurchy they were immediately sent some fifty five miles south to aid in the establishment of spanish fork in the years that followed two of their children john hyrum koyle and adladiadlindalndaanda hillman were married they were both born in nauvoo and had shared many hardships typical of their pioneer heritage on august 14 1864 at spanish fork the second of six children was born to adlinda koyle the child a boy was named john hyrum four years later the family traveled 400 miles south to the rio virgin river and joined the muddy mission the mission consisted of three settle- ments along muddy creek the lower tributary of the rio virgin this move was made in answer to a call by the president of the latter day saint church brigham young while routeroureearouteeaenenrouregaroute young john hyrum nearly lost his life it appears that he fell from his parents heavily laden wagon and as the oncom- ing wheel was about to crush his head a friend who had observed the fall

2 ebruce2brucebruce R mcconkie an accepted LDS theologian states in his book mormon doctrine salt lake city bookcraft inc 1958 p 773774773 774 that in addition to various biblical and modern meanings the term zion refers to the pure in heart and the place where the pure in heart dwell since the righteous members were considered to be the pure in heart it followed that nauvoo would be thought of as zion it I1

jerked himnimnimhdm in safefsafeasafety 0

life ln the assionmissionmasslonliilil ssion ettlfmentsettifment s was xsuaijyunusuallyan hard settlers were ultimately dissatisifed and scourageddiscouragedd scouraged by 1871 the churachurmchiarch leaders conceded thathat successsu ess was rotnot attainateattaiattalnatenadee and ordered the abandonment of the 4 project greatlygreatlvGreatgrea lvi v relieved at thelne removal of what seenseemseemed ed to be an impo-

ssible assigweniassxgnmen trie koylekovlkovi famicamifamili V returned immediately to spanish forkfonkforko shortly tbexeaftertheieaftero youneyoung koviekoyle and his fatfaifaherfatherher erewerepere quarrying stone in a nearby anyoncanyon when a side ocurrdoccxrredoccurred aldandaridarld rebe bo who very narrowly escaped wat hdhed felpihelpiae pieeblesieslsi-r as his faherraherfather was crushed to death beneath the tumbling mass of earth and rechrckorekoackorecy AALT hough nine searsyearsears oidold at the time john hyrum 5 koiekodekoye soon ffoundroundyoundarldjrld riimiimsefriimsefsefser pressed iolmoimoo theh aactiviiesactivitiest jvdtaes of an adult world he ohtaidootaigotai nedmed employmentemploym ent at tneanet ne arlistarljst opporlopportunity4lunityeunity and ata fourteen was

I1 considered to be a afableapablee nuxcrij te skinner 0

yor1 itlroughnutrhroughnut his yn kovl0 was noted forfo I his sensitive and deeply

i it religious kazuonazuo heB Jiss des rlibed as havhavii ig been a very good boy who

often made a poinpolmpointT of remindreremindingmildmind Jribrig 0ct ieraeiaerer members of his family of their duty

1 I 1.1 K you A n H enr14ev linene ko ststouriouiju 9 shortshors skeakeskel cn of the life of john koyle ndhednedhod ppo lo10 this skecnskeansketcla ilicr a partparapamapa off a personal history of eveline stout located at ner ome in bilnleybirnleybikblkburBiLnLeytleylcyicyley idahoidaroo she is a daughter of john Hho koylekoylerkoyleo

u bnghambnighazibangham H bertsobeetso ccmpcampcompelensiveelenetensiveetenextensivesive history V saitsasaltift laklake city s 9 Ppo i29 ajo320yjo

5hereafterwhereafterrerealterRerealter reirredrei rred 3 as kovlkoglkogikoviekoyle johr hoH koyle or bishop koylerkoyleoKoir I1e

soatsoutstoutshout 211221opeopo L 17i p 0 1.1io0 9 to god and the church7churchchurchy 37 in 1884 koyle married miss emily arvilla holthoitholto he purchased a farm just south of spanish fork at a settlement called riverside later 8Q known as lelandleiandolegando

early interest in the supernatural in spite of his suggested pietypietyp koyle at the time of his marriage apparently did not have a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel as taught by his churchcharchochurcho that this was of great concern to him was indicated by his expressed desire for some type of spiritual experience which would secure for him this knowledgknowledgeknowledgesknowledgeoeo each day for a number of years he petitioned the lord in prayer that he might have revealed to him an awareness of the truths which he soughtsoughtosoughton during the summer of 1868 koyle reported having a dream which he accepted as an answer to his many prayerful supplicatsupplicationsupplicationssupplicationsoionslonsso it seems that a few days before this vision one of his cows had been lost and he had been unable to find herhero on the evening in question he made his usual petition and went to bedbedo during the course of the dream which followed he apparently viewed his lost covcowcovo after recognizing the place where she was located koyle saw that one of her horns had been broken and the tip of it was sticking in her eyedeyeoeyeo the next morning he told his wife of the dream and stated that if the information given him was correct he would accept this as an answer to his desire of many years and assume that the doctrines of his church were truetrudotrueo

7 7interviewinterview with ellen rose fillmore sister of john Hho koyle may 5 19to1957 1 Q 8stoutostoutstout opo citpcitocipp po lo10 f-n

3.3

4 e koykoyleie later aledauedaled tnatanat upo ar- ving alat1 me placplace indi atedabed he Q 97 ssawaw ththekhee rcowoiaoiq blanaolanablandstandana rqraqjaj2 jusjugjuo7juon aae he had envisioned her he previous nightnight for him thisthibthih notnot oaloaioril satisfedsatissatisfiedfed nis original aeryqiquery but was alsoadso the be-

4 ginning of a iorglongiong series of asserassertassertedassertzdedzd sjpernaturalsupernaturals jpernat uralnralumal experiences 0 during tinertcetc nenex fewtewtegfe sarsyearsgears ko viewiemier ie laid claim to a number of such happenings lneinerne most significant 0 curingcuu ring in the spring of 189018900 one day

he averred thatknatbhat arlehiienilehrlewhile p1paplovingglovingvingwing in his fiefleriefieldsLds a voievoicevolcevoidevole clearly asked him if la10l0 he was willing to serve on a missionmiss loneeone lo10loingkimgkinging around but seeing no one be continued hisbisME plovpiovplowplovingopLovingong the7& same voivolcevoicee in a somPsomhatsombatsompwhatwhat more commanding

tone said again jhn willwi LI xouyouou go on a mission he immediatellyimmediateilylLyiyay answer

ed yesoyesyese going direly hchemehmpnemeampme heme toidzoidzoldboidto d histishisnis famramfamilyilylly he had received a call to be a bissinnarmisslrnarmissinnarmismls sinnar r aidardarandd had to d somethingsome nningrtingarting about itito shortlyshorshoc ayiy thereafterhereaftler riisrus bishop r ame LS bomehomenomeome ardand askedat ked if heh was willing tcto give two garsheaysyearsyeaysears

0 I- 4 as tyme 1 lur J I e of bishis3s timetune o the I lurhurhur ho apseiigansveringansweringAnsvering in ie affirmative koyle rented his fa m tjto supportsupper his wife arianani i rree alldren2lldrenchildren2hildren during hishhiis absence and soldsoidboid a

9 ginter levlew r 1 K y JD H 28 9.75797 interview iii h mrmetmer I1 yee soboji of johnn koyle april 1919797 koyle attributed his orloriorlginaorlgirzabinaginagirza asidsidesidestke1 e I1IYDT slich artanark experience tc a sermon he had heard thiletheleuhlie attendat endinganglng a saldasandasaxida rejgicurc lelousjgicusjg icusiouslous servic-seivserviceoservicedserviceoe this ocourredburredurredburred shorty act bems r L after he vaswas marriedmatmarmarrmarmriedkct 0 it semssternssterms thaithat the speakespeaker irformedtriformed his listenerslisilsreners f natthat all faitfflfaittvfulal bembmembmembersrs cf iheinetheahet tietle laterlatter dayaaaaav saint chzhchuhchlirnchlorn had a rrighti ahtght tto0 personal reverevelationrevelationlation from Ddiedledleoietletierie r o this rcrverv iatilonmatilonvpiaticn cocouldalduldjidjld aid and direct them in tptheirtueireirair personapersonal1 liesllesiles ac ardiordiordngng to needieedoicedo I1 C A mision as undersuridrstooat1 ood by bhe la ieloelerdaer da saint churctchurcochurchy icideleb a rommissionommleiinrommissioncommission recevdreceedrereceelvedvd btvY a z h man T woman ti sndspend tuotvotwo or more years as a eaherteacherea her cfof thehe doctrine ir peculiar to 7 1 S aithfaithafaitho

111 1.1 A bishop in therhbhe LDS hur h is an aduadul daledaiemalerna le member who is called 40 to11 o preside over a fardward a guproupg jif membrmembers usualusuallyy nimnumberingbering from three to seven hundredbundred A 7tioatiohojerhojgrderiugri iusidsluslisils arstirstfirst resprespnsili3nsitj 11L ty is to the young men between tie abeageag cff twelvetv and wentywentvighwent vighight hlisu atithoritaa borithority extends over al- ward affairsaltsairs andanid membermerrbersomelnmeinmerr beisobelsobersos 12 cow 0 o preside fundsfonds foifolfor Msros jijourneylourneyurnurrurrjeyjeyfey 0 oD tehe southern states missionmissionemissionoMiss ionolono

the foalfojl lneanglng lilcidnt is included berebejeereercarc nor because of its eapernaturalsupernaturesupernaturasopersupersupey natura qla14quaiiziequaiqual oieoleizieihleible bub beausrbeaubrbe a use ift is indi aveativeactive of the strangelystrangely

i powerful persuasive influence1 typicaltypl al of koyle t3tirougnoutzr1ro ughout his adult lifeilfelifcolefco just prior to tlethehe rime koviekoyle entered bhet-he mission field two mis sionslonsionanessionariessiosloariesarleearieenaheenaresnanes had been killed by enenemi0enemiesenemleeediesedieeemleE of irekrerierke churrchurocaurojaj3 theye people were es- peciallypeci ally bittbitterbutterer abouaboutt popolypolygamopolygamyagamygamgamor one ening shortshorssnoreysnoriy2 y after his arrival he and hisbishig companion verewereerrerg aaccsedaccused2ccetledeed bby four men who placed them against a walwaivaliwaliwallwailwaiii apparently intending to shooshou i tnemotunemtuemo eieeletietiletiietuie leader of the group an exremelvexreme1y largelarbey rred whiskered manmanomann tthreaahreaiirea4inging ay yiy demanded now tell us what you are doing wittnitwit all ouiourOUT young eirizgirisgirlsgiriz that youou are taking to utah and turningrurning into ygarnistspnlygamisspo although greatly frightened koyle began

1 aar your talking and was so onionlineI rdirigxirigirig thahaxhat afraf er aran ho r fouryout men laid their gurisgunisguns aside and began arguing among hemselvesthemselvesthemselthemselvesobemhemselvesveso tlethe red whiskered fellow was determined 0too go cinonoin bithwith ttrierie kfkilirgoIingng hothochovethoverever by one amaonioabonio he and his companion started asking haestqaestqaesionsoins before dawn they were almost con-

k v verted 0 afaferateraberc r freeing hairnairhpir apalsapaptlsapttjlsres tlehe vindieatedvindicatedrindibindi atedabed their actions by tanstattaM31attaengtamngingng rtthatteat they had beerbeeneen misled and wished4JE hiedtied 1 totuiotufo well on heirtheir jour 13 ney

talttotao jigiioj his mission konkovkotkolle rrpordrfordpadrpdr ed hairirgriahiriavi g many dreams and fore

e t7edteedjredgred h M himspifo As warnltwarnatkarnirgsgs arhnrh dirdiredired i ic orkvorkwork of canionspanionsIcmpanionscompanions1 aandnd himself reported

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koviekoyle inteinre ve mamavmayy 1.117oihk170 7 12

bytoyboy norman C pierce in his writing belief throthrough a dream mine koyle soon gained a reputation among his fellow missionaries as a dreadremdreamerr with 14 a supernatural giftgiftagifto10 an experience ilillustrativetrativetractive of this gift occurred sometime during the latter part of his missionmissionemissionomissionolono it seems that on a certain occasion he wrote to his wife telling her of a dream wherein he vabvaswas shown railroad men surveying a right of way throthrough the middle of their farmfarmobarmo he asked his wife to confirm this just two days previous to receiving this letter she had written him concerning this very problemprotolemoprotolemo the letters bsdhadbad passed each other routeenrouteen he made this information a matter of prayer requesting that the farm might remain intact the impression came that there wvabwabwas no need to worr-vorryworryy for the route would be changed and the farm wowould not be harmed 15 this is apparently what happened

the dream of 1894 returning from his mission in march 1891894 koyle soon gave up farming and for the next eightnight yearbyearsyeara traveled regularly between raurmercurrcur utah 16 andend tintiocintiotintiep utahftahp as a fl elfeifselfbeltbeit employed peddlepeddiepeddlerr of batterbutterbutted and cheese it was during tistibthisthib period that he reported receiving thetho first revelation concerning his future minemineewineo

14 14normannorman C pirce relief throthrough a dream kineminemineamine1 Ppo 3 this personal collection of annotated revelations of johnhjohn ho koyle vesveawaswaa written in narrative fonnformtonntorm and covers the period from 1930 to 1957 A copy is located in the archives of the IDS chuzhchurch in 8saltbeltbeit lakelmkeimke city utahs 15 an elaimblaim ibidibidc0 investigation of the above ielalaim shovedshowed that the intended right ofofvayway wouldwo have persedparsedpetpatpes sodaedbed over a shallow cornercornez of joyleakoyleakoyieyle go farm not the middle of it lafil6fiTitillnoretillmorellnoreilmoreore interview 1

accordingac ording 0 acoua countsacoumsms winch ateare avallabieaval labielabiab le todatoday one night dur-

ingng the monhmonn of ausaugustaug ust c 189189 a personage dressed in white andalid radiating

1.1ightlight prporred1vpurporTedpurportedlvpurportedlyi lv aparapprappearedared to0 o koyle indr a dream and conducted him in

i t the spitspirit 100 o a mountain locaiccalibcaled tcr theme easleast of tishisbis homehimeohomeo he was conducted to a ertainextaleextaln elevatinelevationeleedevatinr heehewheree ine earieariearlgarigarth parted before them and they 7.7 entered wittiwithoutwitnoutwittioutout any apparent resistanceresistancoresireslresreelree1sancisancstanCoe As they proceeded through 4thehe mountain aiongabong a course which had the

appearance of a worked out mine siniftsinaftspaft 9.9 te messenger talked freely and explained the vavariousrioij frrnationsformations and the runs which appeared along the ex 18 carationcaationocavationca ationovation theyey toifolyolfoltoedIDtOedloedI aedvedied a rrewticreanmiiewtji oloredolocolored010red leaderdeader which the apparition it saigaigalsaidsaldd will mark your fjfuturefuiirefutinefjtureture 70xrseOJTSCarse if vouro A are obedient and work as directed 0

at an 1indeterminedundetermined depdeptdeprdepthst h koyle was shoashomshown a ttannenne he was to dig which would

yom penetrate the mountinmounjinmoun dinjinai1i faf7romom an undisundreund1eijlndicj1 dsedused3sed point or tklilene sirfacesurface and inter

1 I the n se 1 th exexavatiavatavatiavahi rn h haa just passed hroughhrougno he saedstateds aed that behe plainly

1 arreg 1 savsaw mideminemireemirke ars aryisarrlgarr Lg rin irladsaadsjadsads of ore ouiout cfof bisthishis tunnelrunnelunnzelhelhei 0 he observed rjtttattratlitritstat aiaacrigong its lengtilengthlenglnlengan t7lnereherenere were various takeofftake off points whwhichlchach leddedjedmed to inreinredibaltalodib quantitquanticquanaanti4tit leeiealebiealeaie& ffcf bluadualuablealuvaluableableabie oreoreo the first of

17 letietleterieter1eter4 crc r from jhnjohnjoun 1fo witnerwatnerw&tnerwarneraner rrfphewrFF pphewtewrew of john Hho koykoyle1eae t-TOc jarnejamess R A I1 ro christiansonchrist ianscnianson april 202055050 1951957 DPV isS in the pcpcsessionpossessionsession of the author sestee aalso1 zo appendix 1jo

i A stastatementemeritemerizembriz dyoy araarar4 erey Eeo grantgran T lamestamesamfcs Eeo talmageTaijnage september 9 T 193 pop 0 o located iairliri irlevrlehe arrivesarhivesar hive of ther tietlefie LDS aurnurqurdurchonurchooh the followingtoltoifolloving state ment bvby mrwro grardgraro in tiietiletiitil rrirrair pid ticric blkithth taltaiTatalmagetaimagelimagemabemagemagg isLS typical of the response received in ne majririajorimajmaobajrimaori ri y jf irervlev anerewxnlvnerere a questiquestionor COnCernconcerningilIgilog the origin of thethiritrlibie mine vaswasaaa& dosedoposedposedo 1 I1 heard thtn s story repeated by brother koyle in igi1911911191.1 191912119.121 igi19119.11913i9133 io andanid I119c and maaman times sincesmceo one pec- about kog e never uliar thing brother koekove riever crosses himself I1 repeating his drrarrdramam vitwitvittvitiwitt kne sanesame exaexatnst n ss as hihe ddid irit tf hene beginningbeginneginbeginrangorango caeoraecne would tninkanink 1 t 1 gilld that heta wouldvcilld hangechargechange itiai1 or adda it1 bib4ba never tactaeac 0 grant statstatementemear p lloilo110 1144

.9 ooo gaswas these was some 110009 000 feet from tneane portal and as identified by a red iron formation in tthehe top of trie turturnelturnellturnelonelnei this formation led in a south-

erly direction until it strucstruckK a bbibbig1gag white veinvelnvemevelnavem wh ch dipped almost straight down to a large ore body measmeasuringdrinedringcring eghteeneighteen feet to the square and running in an easterly direldirectiontition under the tunnel for about 2000 feet approximately 1000 feet further on01 tneane second takeofftake off point was located and was recognizable by a anitewnite veirmeirmelrveirlmeirl about an inchninch wide on the north side

and eighteeneignteelteen inches wide on tre south 0 helieifehie saw that by following this vein he would come to flivetivefiveivelve very ri h ore todletodiebodiebodieshodiesr this side drift he was shown would brodlprodlproducei e firsfirst cladclAmclimaxingaxing a period of four years depres- sion throughthroughoithroughoutoi t the landlando theunte vavaluesaesues would bring much needed relief to those sympathetsympatnctli 7 tjt j tohte miremidemine naennetepae inzevinze at the 1000 foot point would 19 produce selsecsecondond followed by a large oteoreoye depOdepositdepositsitEit yelyet to be shown him koyle noted thathat the formationforrormatonmahonmakon near the face of the tunnel was abararbpharacharacterizedara teriterlterizedzed by great breaks aichhich tipped west instead of east as was typ-

ical of the rest of ttriemerieklemie strataszratasarata the wallswalis leading from the breaks were 20 4 bhe parallel and continuedcont inuedinked 011 o a place refereferredtred to as thethebhe turn down it was from here that thethey prclpaclprceededprceproceededeeseddedseaedeaededesea fcfc1fco ilovinblovincowing a slsilckslickk sided wall which dipped

19grantgnantgrant stastatementemenemer p 550 pierce and giantgrant disagree on several points involvinganvclving the tunnel grants version is the one cited since it was written twenty or more neadyeadNnearyearseadear earearlierear iierkierklerllerlier than piepiercesrcelsocels he states that kckoyleyleyie includedinc L uded the dedetailsderailsdebalistailsballsbalis involving tneane first t woo takeofftake off points in his 0 ene originalor J ginal dream plerpierpiercee however indnd lareskares jinahat ine 4he tunnel was hardly mentioned in the dream oiof 8941894 it bebecameame portantimportantimimpcrimper ant in 1914 as a means of draining the water whichw hi h was voidingdineding up operations in the main shaft at hat time accoaccordingiding to pier e kokoylekoiekoleyieyle had a dream which gave the location and details of tlettheblehe two oueiouerouterouderouermostovermostmost takeofftake orfoff pointpoints so 20 koyle sraedcatedstaedbateds trial ab uru the iimlimaimam rilinirigdinirilinminiirigribrig coperations reached this vallwallawallj they would begin takingraking ore fromjiom anetrietne side driiarifdriftL grant p 2 151 5 eighty degrees to the east for bomesomemome 4elvetwelveL belve feet and back to the vestwest for about ninety feetreetteeto the formation along ththiss ourse was very soft and in most places could be spadedspaderospadedo about one hundred feet below the tunnel level they came to capstonecapstonecapzap stone which was tiettretflatofrato exceedingly hard and about three feet in thicknessthickthicknessonesso lt was made known to koyle that when this point was 21 atuallyactuallydually reached it would take almost a month TO penetrate the stone beneath the capstonecap stone vaswaskas a ilateelareeareelargearge body of rjichnchh white quartz containing leaf goldgoldo on this subbesubje t1 koylkoyakoyjlefe stated when I1 was taken through theth mine ffortorr the first time in 389189428942.894 after being shown the r4ranhai7i body of ore beneathdeneath the capstonecap stone I1 was told that the ancient inhabitants of this land had at one time discovered these rdichesriches having penetrated into the southwest portion of the gratgreat body of gold oreorcooreg then the values had been closed to them and would be closed to us too if we also became up in pride araaranaA hard eartednesseartpartednessrieartpieartedness using the wealth lifted achardanhardc2 for seifselfzelfbelf braserasgxatgeatgratjfiajon1 fi atlonatjonaljon ononloLY As he passed through thismismls formation koviekoyle noted that it was about 175 feet long and dipped td the ncrtneatncrtheastnortheast and tnenanen back to the southeast just before it entered halhatwhat was theT he remains of an ancient nephite tunneltunnelotonnelo

21 interview ithwith fred fink julysuly 4 1961.196119blo mrmroamro fink has worked at tneane mine off and on sinesincsince 192019200 he isi onone of the iargestlargest stockholdstock holdhoid ers in the kompanyompanyromprompanyocompgompom panyanyo

22 k opo ppo 5 e Ffjirikriknik .9 14hile alerepleteplerepler2e op cito 50 frfredd 9 hilenile discussing this incident with the auauthorautriorautnortriorctstatedstaged trial in his opinion the riches of the mine had been witchelwithhelwithheldd oron several occasions because the stockholders were out of harmony with the oriorloriginalginaJ purpose of itthehe minemineominco according to what koyle todlladmma told himhirnhirmhimm the purpose vabas 0too help the dokdoupokdourpoutPOLTpourr and needy and to aid the chhunhchuchchunhhurhchurh in removing to and building up jackson county missouri and stab- urh 4 4 U ilizing the11 he economy ofoffodd tneanene church inennen trie ho Sso government is forced off the gold standardstandardo 16

this tunnel he was informed was the one used by the ancient nephitesNephites to convey ore from the rich deposit they had just passed throuthroughthroughogho going down the tunnel for a short distance he was shown into nine large roorooms from which the ore had been takentakeno the several pillars supporting the 23 roof of each room were filled with goldgoldo the place appeared to be a type of depository inasmuch as there was a rather large quantity of re 24 fined gold throughoutthroughouto passing through the nine rooms koyle was led again to the old nephite tunnel and conducted to its portal coming out in 25 water cantonocanyonocanyono

23 mormon austin fife 0 collection 1ly 4623462 Ppo 550 this is a series of notes recorded by fife after an extensive interview with koyle in 194819480 also grant statement ppo 11liolloiioilo110 and appendix II11iioilollo koyle often stated that when the side drift began to produce the price of stock would go immediately to 50050005005.00 a share and continue to rise in valuevalueovaldeo after a period of nine months during which time the ore body at the bottom of the winze would be located the capstonecap stone penetrated and the nine rooms entered a single share of stock would be worth well over 100001000l000o by this tine complete harmony would exist between the church and the operators of the minemineo this was the sales pitch used to induce many people to buy stock in the minemineo the idea that a few dollars invested would bring almost a thousand fold increase within the lifetime of the purchaser was very en ticingdicingticingo

24ph interview with drdro alienallenailen brooksby july 4 196019600 brooksby is a retired dentist from arizona who lives at the mine and analyses any ore brought out which Is thought to be of value 0 he and others have stated that koyle believed that the personage who conducted him through the mine was the angel moronimoronic who first appeared to joseph smith in 1823 and that the gold plates from which the book of mormon came were located in one of these nine roomsbroomsroomso

25 see appendix I1 and II11he 17

before taking leave of himhdm 9.9 cne personage who koyle noticed was

dressed in temple robes 9 reviewed vitwitvithwith him hisis experience seeming very anxious that all the details should be stamped firmlyfirnily in his mindmindo he was promised that according to his faithfulness all he had seen would be 26 realizedrealireallreailrealizedozedo

1894 to 191iiigi191 A number of visits were necessary before koyle finally relented and began work on the shaftshaftoshayt aran incident which convinced him that he should do as instructed occurred as a resuresuitresultit of the third appearance of the personage to himhimo he emphasized the necessity of beginning immediately on the work which ladnadriadpiadplad benbeen rutiinedrutioutlincutioutlinedoinededo pointing to an artesian well

van which koylesboyles neighbor valwalwa drilling he said tomorrow at twelve noon p they will strike a grrgoodd flow of water and at four oclocko1clock they will take the drill and rigging awayawayoagwayo if this comes triietruetribe so also shall all that I13 have shown you about the mine come truetrucodruco ncwnowmcw will this be witness and testimony enough for yoyosyoui to begin this work koyle answered in the

.9 laebie affirmative 9 buibutbur later staedstaged helie actually prayed that the sign would prove false since he did rotdotnot want to become involved in a treasure digging enterenter0entera 27 prise 0 according to his wife abowhowbo had been instructed by koyle to pay special attention to the veliveilwell tthehe above happened just as the messenger said it wouldwouldswouldo

26brooksby interviewjntervlewo

7 2273 .3 .9 opo c ppo 2 3 fife 9 op citcito apppapo 23 18 during one of his visits the messenger had stipulated that a doubting thomas was to accompany koyle on his initial visit to the mountainmountainemountainomountaino having previously persuaded a friend joseph brockbank who apparently did not accept his dream to go along with him he assembled

the necessary equipment and on september 3 1891894 proceeded to the ap 28 pointed sitesiteopiteo they were at the prescribed location from 800 amamo until boo400 pmpom during which time they worked as directed in the visionvisionevisiono in the afternoon at the hour mentioned the doubting thomas was convinced of the authenticity of the revelationrevelreveirevelationsrevelationoationo 29 immediately a series of eighteen unpatented lode mining claims were staked in the eldorado mining district of utah county utah the name given the claims were relief number onelone relief number two and so on through eighteen 30 word that koylesboyles claim to a fantastic dream mine was evidenced by the finding of the propprophesieprophesiedhesiehesled cream colored leader3lleader soon spread through the several communities in central utahitahoutaho like a magnet the telling of this fantastic tale drew people to the koyle property on september 17 1894 when the official excavation began it was not difficult to locate sufficient men to help with the exhuming of the alleged riches

28 koyle interinterviewviewy may 5 195719570 koyle and brockbank later stated that the spot appeared to have a halo of light above it A small monumbntmonument is now located a short distance from where the light was seen 29OQ fife op citcito ppo 440 30 articles of incorporation of the koyle mining company located in the offices of the secretary of state 9.9 state capitol biagblagbldg salt lake cityCAcatyty utah p 220 31note the prophecy on p13polapol3 lineufineulineholindho after extensive digging koyle claimed that they found the leader just as he saw it in his dream 19 during the early years of the project the mine was notpot incorporated and no stock or interest was soldsoldo itjt was assumed that the small group of participants ouidouldwould be treated as partners with koylekoylerkoyleo it was further felt that rufficsufficsuffilientsufficientdent values would be immediately forthcoming to meet any exorbitant costs that might arisealiseoariseo it was in fact apparent that koyle expectexpecexpectedted the minemneamne to begin producing at a very early date from the vast deposits located beneath the capstonecap stonestineostoneo A statement indicative of his optimism on this point was made by hishas nephew john Ffo warner who saidsaldsaidtsaldi

m one hyky father went to the inelnemine to work early in 1895 0 oe week he had tottotco stay home because mother was iiiliiillo111 uncle john came by and urgently remarked itweWP may strike this week and you wont n it 32 be therethereotherdo of course thetheyY didntddn strike at1tito during the ensuing years to 1909.190919090 tkehatheakeh6 workings presumably following theth course indicated by the cream colored formation penetrated deep into the earthearthoearth during this same period two additional excavations each at a loerlawerlower elevation verwerverewere tunneledtunneledfunneled antojnto the mountain until they connectconnected ed

laj4 with the shaft 0 the ialiatterlatterter two workings served no apparent purpose except that they may have been abortive attempts by the miners to force an early conclusionconcluslonocvlasjlon ttto the part of the dream which indicated that a tunnel should

32aq5q warrierwarriorwarner letietletterietterteyter ppo A10 koyle often indicated that ore would be taken from tilthee orlorioriginalginal shaft before it ouldouidwould be taken from the tunnel 0 Cco tue norman pierce tletueilethe dream mine story ppo 13 0 this is a cohtinuationcontinuationdobtinuation ofu his first story redeyreliefreiley through a dream minemineo grant mentions that koyle told him in 1911 that heinte had plainly seen in a vision the exact nature of the formation in which the ore would be found but he was not saresuresore how far down the shaft it waswaso grant further stated that in 1914 he had several huadredhundred shalesshares of stokstocksrok and because of what he had learned from koyle he was looking forward to a speedy realization of valuesvallesovalueso grant statement apppapoppo 1815 8aoqo these statements arear not consistent with others made by grant concerning the order in which the various ore bodies would be foroundfoundfoujidund see p 131 30 20 intersect the shaft at a point directly above the capstonecap stone and its con- 3 3 cealed vealbealthowealthoweal th

1 itjt was evident by 1909 thathatthai the ffeufewew men who had stackstuck with the enterprise would be unable to continue the work successfullybuccessfullyo they had realireallreailrealizedzed

no110leoieo returns from their investment and more men and money were necessary if failure was to be avolavoldedavoidedavoidedoavo idedoded therefore on march hy4 1909 the koyle mining company was incorporateincorporatedincorporatedodo stockholders verewereweze john Hho koyle with 135002350023.500

shares john Hho koyle trustee vithwithith 4949500500 shares george haieshales with

1500 shares john Ffo beck wlthl000shareswith 1000 shares Bbo Ffo woodward withwithlooojj1000 J p

Wwo creer with 1000 sharessharer and jones bowerbowen with 1500 shares 0 there were

424000ooo000 shares of treasury stostokstohVk making a total of lib114114000000ooo000.000 shares with a par value of klooloo1000100 per sharshareghar or 1140000114000ll4000o11.4000

11 ohn Bio koyle vaswaalbaswasswaas listed as president and director of the corporcorpora atlonamon with Jjo Ppo creer as vice president and diredirectorcloretorelom and W jones bowen as secretary and treasurertreasurtreasureroero these three plus george hales Bbo Ffo woodward

F and john fo beck 9.9 made up the boarddoard of directorsdirer tors 0 each of these men received their stock in return for the titles they beiabelaheldbeldheid to the eighteen relief c1alxnsclaimso the 0launsclaimsleunsteung in turn became the property of the corporationcorporationo stockholderstockholders meetmeetingsngs were to be held annually on the second monday in maxmaymayomayg beginning in 191019100 in caseeaseCBSPcasp the appointed date should conflict

33ssuehmulhsuensulhuchuen wrewere the findings of Jjo 000oo christenschristensen eny special investigator for the state securities commission as stated in his report to tlethe 1 A securities commission in Dcdcembermcemberdecemberember 9.9 193219320 copy is in the ftiietllefileilelie at the office of the securitsecuritysecuritieslesies commission located in the tribune buildingbulibuilBailding saitsalt lake city iahoutahlahobaho j-

ith a holidayho haymay or at the dis rataorPrelloreliothotuotAo i of the board of dalecdarecdiretordirdirektoretortors the tamet m 4 jff theibefhe rnerrnpr f m ould be 11hmpdonad ngd

JJI1 170ttowaldwjldQ ad1d 9pfeaappearr th inin an itrrp of ihiihlthi natrbnetrenatcire 400042000 shares cfof trtreasuryasa stolstofstoe and ha e perpersonalona slokstoksiokstock vvacwaswacas avalavailablelabIekeblebebie wouldgouldgouid be dif

0 I1 2 vo o IT now nt 00 c mp flfloiul mark 0 hoevhow a- not h- oo babackedbuckedked withwih prom jsesasesJs s of iatiimti jt r jn3jno psitj a hish i n 0 or oneonjconj 1ieaieidehe avuabieavllable stock didmdiddijJ ootnotDO lasflaeflailas jongionotono AsA rai reulreutresulireguli of thenc yptdrepicirqpici al of suyhssuchssuysecyajjesHs and thet he increasedinreindeasedasea aalviauviAamityavity thtaht imlbimlanennnenie vetalveraiveralal amencimeniajmnrin fo iiietiletllehiielp AtardoarjaapflaydaatflfLle 5 of in orporationcorporationorporation verewerewerp acceptedaccept pd on mayma lq18 l91o1910 thesheiiiili111 mosi signfflsignificantant clbangesflanges were in articles hotiyofiyo and sixexolxo injn thehp fcfnnrcmiler the mouritunountmourat of tretreasurypsutyasuty storkstock was increased

0 tco u4ua114000ooo000 ssharessarbogarbossharesscharesgaruo intrltnt lethe talittalir1attt tlthebetbez total 2apiiapatajapatanal stostokk taggagtasas increased

1 35 to 2002000001000 shares vithith a paxparrax val 06ae of01 lowlox prperp r toregore or 2000000200000aoooooo by islstv nilshlishiis13.13 unic iretirjt resreg injn 1 h mibunnunne hdhad spreasprespreadad hohouthokohout bouthoufhout the statestateostareo regalar1vgulbrly pritonbritonprisonporsmm from lanlogan oipoinolpbip m seitsailsaltselt lk and adjacentad lament areas travrav led frto bbrbhehe koyle prcjpepropertyactycty bcdbc1bothai4i to w tht r msiningmeiningvlninvaninvLnlnnIn spaaelespagelespacaclespaspac acieaeleaeleacle and to listenlistell

t tcto theL fartstfarestfarianfan tst 011x15 of JJIL z fuijofufolifeijotioeiokleckiecijocler P 3pap jh u kh idersideus verewereer

10 oragedforaged to 0otaaf2f ain af0 iai a odeoneon hunirl shatebrearzbyehrz&kqre of st-lo0 o K ata 150lobo1501.50 per

enerenex yentY shareshareoshadeo it was feltfellfeitff hlathiatthatulat when the alaeaiaealueacae clof a bingislnglesangle sbictshaeve waiwatrent to 1000010001.000 19 one tnindredhundred shaasha7 aoliawoliaoidd tb effijffi iniint fo 2iiaelnbir tqnibnrqn a sizgleinglsiegle rwriilyfajnjivo stock 34 11ayt 1 concept autart i i oroopo hot apppapoppo 101 0 o celebkelebkolyiels original inceptoncept2oncept ofot the urposepurposep of theth mine uyaswjayas fartarfam mcnrrpnerpirejre I1limited than itat wraswyasva caleatent0 the timelime of the inorlnorinorporatincorporationporat lonoiono whrewhere prprvioalyviousvidueviouevI ouEous ayiy ororjjronijJrtirjir r a fvfew frincfriendsts had beenheen included in thetb treasure hunt helielleile no fookf ook a philphiaphi1jantbropanthropic falmalal view of the mission the min vaswasas to perforpectorperformp rfotwm and enem 1 oiragedouragdoiragedmiragedmaged the putpur besebase of sto-stokk in blocks of one hundred shares or moremoreo 33sas5 1 chidothidotb d 0 0 knamnd4nentndinddndime ritnit I1lo100 222 was obtained either by directdire t purhabcpurchasepurvhase or by vrorklrgworkirworker at the minemineo those

wwhoho chose to vorworworkk were paid at the rate of three shares per day plus a 36 variable amount ofot rashoash

by decumbedecemberdecpmber 19131913. the shaft was approximately 1400 feet in depthdepthsdeptho progress was slow and difflultdifdlffj ulto the narrow confines at the bottom of the workings were suehsuch that no moremure than two mnmen could work at a timetimeo As the bucket tastaenaswas ffilled it had to be conveyed up a seriesserles of eleven windlasserwindlasseswindlasses

i to theth portal aboveaboboabovo the seeping of water iintont 0 o the mined out area had

become a major problemprobprobtemolemotemo A pump kept ttinitittli constant use was hardly ableabie to keep the liquid from enveloping fhethe workersworkensworkersoworkarsokerso accordingly it was decided to

drive a third tunnel which would coiinectconnectzonnect with thebhe bottom of the shaft thus 37 allowing the water an immediate exit from the upper workings 0

As c oustconst rruetductructacttonucttonioniodtod of a titunnelanelpnel had be ameomexme a practical necessity much speculation arolearo2earoce as loto10 where it stioshouldu id beginbegino doctor james Eeo talmagetaimage

a former profeprofessorpropucpuo fessorosor of getgeegeologygeoiogylogykoby at 1thehe urilversttyuniversity of utah visited the mine

at this timefcimeo upon beibetbpjngrig iiformedinformed of ftthehe intendedintended excavation he indicated a spot herecherevhere he thought it might wllwil beb artedstartedsl aried iftf it were to connect Q vithwitkwith the bottom of the shaftshanoshaonshafto 38 on the morning off Jjanuaryanuary 6 1914191.4191 keykoygoy ie announced that he had been

3tat grant stastabernstaternstatementtern nt ppo 220 if a worker desireddeiredode iredo he could receive oneone13 half of his earnings in stocsteckstuck1 aadarld tahetlhet n remaremairiderremairemaltrlderiderrider ir cashcasho

17 pipieepleeerdeerceecce the orfdreoredramam mimithrierue story ppo 12jl2ojlyo 38 Jguivu ty 19190 1qaq C 8 ppo 1.1lo10 grant spanish fork prsbpreb jujuiv 1 1980 alsoaisoatso statement ppo 660 the ppaela e tallmage sellectsellesellecfgeliegeeleselectedcf ed waswa on the norhnonhnorth adeilderidesidende of the water canyon near thetbeabe bottowbottoniobotbofbittow tomtowtonio this wasas in ththe same carlyonaaenaaon as thebhe porportalaaiaal4 a1aa of the sscafoshafoha ft 213

shonnshown inln a dream theineetieefie exact spot where the tunnelfunnel was to beginbegino ignoring all previous suggestsuggestlanssuggestionsianslansions he statedslated thattbatabat the devnenoevnevnew constructioncoastconst ruction would be started about a quarter of a mile to the northwest of the original diggings and lata a completely different canyon 0 he Is quoted as saying on this occasionoccasions

I1 wellweilweliwelly9 hadbad a dream lasttastjast night seeing the exact spot where I1 am to start the long tunnel that I1 saw in my first dredreamam but ildliddid not see where to starstanstartstant it 0 I13 know novnowhowonowo it isLs over in a anyoncanyon north of us down tr74ardtoward the botiombottombouomobogomo 1I1 saw ttwowo bare spots on the sidehil11sidehiljk one above the otherothero we are to begin on the lower oneoneo 1I1 ventwentwont araroundovrid jn my dream about 300 feet west and stood against some small trees and 1eanedbeanedipaneci over looking toward the lowelowerlomerr bare plaepiareplacepla2e aandaadad T1 was shown that if I11 would direct the operation regularly from this point we would get everything lnin the long tuerielunrieltunnel that I1 was sshownto n irin my dream getting the first totervatervatenwater at 300 feet the place for the wintz at about 1000 feet the white vein at about ooo2000000 0 at about 22300300300.300 feet 1 voaidwoaldwould get my water running autoutaptopt of 1uee itarne1tunnetonnearnea j ardand over the dwnpdump then the parallel vailswailswaliswallsvalks tthee gratgreat breaks back to the west and the slick wallwailwaiiwallowalio then I1 was foto eelbeibedgelgeiget down on my knees and see daylight from the turning down diacplacplace uieoteute last tturntornutnrutn toward the rich ore some one hundred feetee below thetlnealne tunnelhunnellhunnelo 3937 1nstrulntratlngtingtangt1ng several men to follow and bring their equipment with them koyle headed for the designated areaaneaareaoarcao the story as ilaterater recited indicated that the parts of the dream pert-pertainingaining to the beginning of the tunuelturiae1junuel1 were fulfbulffulfilledfujfilledaledlled exaexactiveexactivoexact21 Ivo11yay work began on the newne onstruoticonstructionn immediateloimmediatelylanediaimmediclanedia atelotely on the following saturday janijanuaryiarytary ioloio10.10 191419.14191 koyle declared thatthat he was awake in his bed contemplating a remarremarkatremarketremrkamekatkab le drean when suddenly a powerfpowerfulpowersu 11 vibrating in-

came rdroadromn .9 fluence over hi iasfirgiasaias4 ing several minutesminutestminutesominu teso it recurred twice more 9 causing himbim foto risenise up in bedbedo As hhe dddid so iwoswotwokwo men dressed in grey

39 grant statement Ppo 66cac 24 clothes having white hair and beards one taller than the other came stepping up to his bed the shorter of the two did all the talking and declared that he and his companion were in charge of the mine telling koyle that he had started the tunnel in the right spot and all that he had seen in his dream was to be fulfilled after outlining the future for nearly two hours they departed promising that both men and money would be provided according to 4040 his needs in later years koyle asserted that these visitors were two of the three nephitesNephites41 who chose to remain on the earth at the time of christchrists visit to this continent the first half hour of this experience outlined the future operation of the mine and the opposition to be encountered in the persons of james E talmage and heber J grant president of the latter day saint church the remaining one and a half hours koyle stated could not be revealed to anyone although asked repeatedly to give an account of this 42 latter period he always answered it is too big you couldncouldntcoulden take itito six months after the appearance of these two personages the latter day saint church brought pressures to bear on the mine owners and all

40 ibid appp 7877887808oao8

albockalbookbook of mormon 3 nephi 23 2830322830 32 also appendix XIIIXIJT

42 fife 02op citciteelteeite p 4 25 4 operations ceased 43

1914 to 1926 the restrictions placed on koyle by the leaders of his church verewere such that neither he nor his associates ventured near the mining property As a result of this the annual assessment work required by lavlawlew could not beb accomplished and the claims soon became delindelinquentdelinquentsdelinquentoquento under these circumstances anyone could refile the property and replace the former possessor as the rightful owner one person who became aware of this situation was ben bullock of provo utah claiming to have been inspired in his intent bullock properly staked out the delinquent claims had them recorded in his name and at some later date signed a quitclaim deed re 44 turning them to the koyle mining company during marchmaych 1918 koyle in need of a source of income moved his family to idaho and took up farming on a large tract of land some twelve

433 koyle later related that he was informed by the two personages who had appeared to him in january 1914 that the mine would be shut down they also told him that the same power that closed the mine would open it since his membership in the church was in question he felt he had nothing to lose by closing the mine for whatever length of time would be required the church opposed the operation of the mine and the sale of stock because both werwere done under the guise of revelations supposedly received by koyle authorities were further opposed to the venture because of statements by koyle which linked the financial future of the church with that of the mine

44 interview with ben bullock july 3 1960 bullock a self styled mining expert was a lifelifelonglong friend of koyle he is at present working a gold mine of his own a number of miles to the southwest of the koyle mine 26 miles south of eurleyaurleyburley financially speaking the ensuing years spent in idaho away from the mine were the most successful of coyleskoyleskbytes lifetime 455 in 1920 the LDS church granted a request by the koyle mining company allowing it to reopen the mine in doing so however it stipulated that all operations should be conducted as any normal mining venture exclusive of supernatural allegations because of the quali- ficatficationsions attached to the reprieve koyle remained in idaho and peter 46 C carlston was made mine superintendent As work resumed it was found that the timber in the original shaft had deteriorated to the extent that mining it would be dangerousdangerousj therefore all efforts were put to the furthering of the tunnel which was about 200 feet in length by april 1 1923 the tunnel extended 22015015 feet into the mountain the mine authorities felt sure that it was nearing the old workings since they supposed that they could hear the shooting in the tumeltunnel by going down the old shaft about 250 ffeet on this date a notice was mailed to all stockholders reminding them of the annual meeting to be held on may 14 everyone was encouraged to attend inasmuch as a majority of the stock had to be represented in order to make desired changes in articles five and six of the articles of incorporationincorporationo the desired changes concerned the fact that the company was nearly out of

hoylehoyie45koylekoyle interview may 5 1957

afife4fife opeopo cit f P 2 some years later koyle asserted that toward the endif ofot thee shutshutshutdowndown one of the local authorities who had been instrumental in forcing the closure appeared to him at his home in idaho and apologized for his earlier actions stating that the church had been in error and koyle was to resume operationoperationsoperationsoso 27 fdsadsfundssunds and an increase in capital stock was necessary to avoid an assess 47 ment the board of directors of the mine were certain that they would saonsoonsqon strike the ore in case of such an event they stated that money was necessary to build ore bins install electric machinery and connect vthwilthath the power plant as well as have enough on hand to prosecute t4848 the work to a successful conclusion the meeting was held on the appointed date and the desired changes were made in article five salt lake city instead of spanish fork was nailemademailemaae the headquarters of the company in article six the capicaptcapitaltaltai stock was increased from 200000 to 300000 shares the additional 100000 chareschanesahanespharesphanes were placed in the treasury of the company to be disposed of by 4049 order of the board of directors 7 t according to a report by the mine secretary william Aao jones the meeting which presumably started in good order ended in some manner 50 of unpleasantness the extent of this unpleasantness soon manifested itself in the form of a number of written and oral complaints presented to the state securities commission these allegations which were directed toward the mine leadership of the time resulted in the company

47 47aA letter to the stockholders of the koyle mining company april 1 1923 located in the files of the state securities commission one of the main selling points used in disposing of stock was the claim that it was assessablenonassessablenon 48 ibid

49 tr 49koylekoyle articles amendment II11 1923 50 the salt lake tribune august 20 1932 p 880 28 being denied a request it had made for the right to sell secseesecurityarityurity stockstocko 51 by 1924 the koyle mining company owned a total of sixty two claims which were consolidated into a group known as the relief consoli- dation mining claims all of these locations were made injn the el dorado mining district eighteen additional claims located in utah and nevada 52 were co owned with peter Cco carlston one of the operations being promoted in conjunction with carlston was the silver banner mine located north of eikoelko nevadanevadaonevadah early in 1926 koyle left idaho and went to nevada where he managed the silver banner for the remainder of that year some time during this period a mana- gerial dispute arose between koyle and carlston which resulted in carlston severing his connections with the koyle mining company 53 although carlston had been associated with the mine for over fifteen years there were many who applauded his decision to leave it was the opinion of some that he had mismanaged company affairs and had often acted contrary to the orders 54 of koyle

5lreportreport of scott P stewart director utah state securities commission concerning the koyle mine located in the files of the securities commission december 15 193219320 52 report of stanley F bonnett to heber Cco hicks secretary of the utah state securities commission march 8 1924 located in the files of the securities commission

53christensen53christensen report p 3 54 letter written by peter C carlston to whom it may concern july 13 1933 see appendix IV also fink interview see also the letters and statements of protest housed in the files of the utah state securities commission salt lpkeapke city utahitahoutaho koyle related that while living in burleybunleyburley idaho he would receive an immediate premonition whewhenevernerer carlston would deviate even a foot to the right or tietlethe left of the correct course the tunnel should followfollowsfollowo when this occurred he would immediately telephone carlston and tell him he was in error to the right or left such and such a distance often carlston would contradict himham only to find out later that koyle was rightrighto fife 22opo citcitecito p 55.50 29 with the departure of carlston koyle returned to utah and resumed his position as manager and president of the company upon his arrival it was reported he found that the work in the tunnel had pro gressed according to his predictionpredictionspredictionsoso 55

the platinum boom during 1927 and 1928 the work at the mine contincontinuecontinaedcontinuedcontinuedoaeddo the supposed turndown point had been reached but since the ore from the rich deposits one hundred feet down was not to come out until last work in the drift and winze was pursued at an accelerated rate inspansptnsplteite of the fact that no values had been forthcoming on several earlier occasions when koyle and others had maintained that they should enthusiasm among

stockholders was very highhighohagho koyle had stated many times since 1914191.4igi191 that when the turndownturn down was reached production from the side drift would surely follow the optimism of the faithful was rewarded and inln theeheebe less faithful it was aroused when on february 28 19291929 the spanish fork press announced that the operators of the local dream mine had struckshruck platinum

55ebidoibidibido according to fink who was employed at the mine from 1920 to 1932 a small amount of water was struck at about 300 feet 0 at near 1300 feet the red iron formation was encountered and twenty feet to the south a large white vein was evidenteridenioevidenioevievl denlodenio near the 2000 foot mark the odd shaped vein two inches on one side and eighteen inches on the other which was to form the side drift was encounterencounteredencounteredoedo about 2200 feet from the portal water began seeping into the tunnel and as the work progressed beyond this point the increased dripping soon filled a ditch which had been dug the full length of the excavationsexcavationoexcavatlono at 30003j000 feet the strata appeared to reverse itself and the workings went straight on between parallel walls that led to a slick smooth wall which dipped downward and was expected to lead to the capstonecap stone one hundred feet belowbelowobelopo at this point one could kneel down and see daylight alat the mouth of thetche tunneltunyielotunyieloleloleio the latter two signs became evident after kokayteskbytesolelsvlels return jnso 19261926. see appendix 11iioilollo 30 56 bearing oreoreo Jjy woV watfwarfwattwartwary assayer fortheforfocroc the company had detdetermildetermlndetermanermil wiek through apparently careful urtbuthutmatmad uncoofinaedunooafirmed analysisanalyels that ore samples brought to hinhim from the side drift ofcalnedcontained three tenthskeaths percent and more in piatplatplabplat00 57 inumanumjlnumo this report satisfied koylekoylerkoyleo his years of waiting were now overaveroovero people comingcoining to the mine were told that this was it jabaja0a had finally struck itito koyle was so sure of thekhe extreme value of the ore that when asked bytoyboy one of the local residents who waaagaagew4aw moromor cautious than many others if it voadwoadwould be possible to take a small sample and bavehave it assayed he answered in the empemphatichaticbatic negative 0 he explained that a sample of the size 58 requested was worth a great deal of boneyomoneymoneyo

many requests for euck were soon forthcoming 0 such was the denarddemarddemardidemardemardjdemandj 59 that the price of a single share soon rose to 50005o00 about the time that allailali available personpersonalal stoc16osfcocksycock had been disposed of reports were

56plnishspanish fork press february 28 1929 ppo lo10 coyleskoyleskbytes wife is quoted as having saidsaldsadd that her husband hadbiadbladhlad stated a month before the boom that something wasto happen on tethe hill that wouldwoold bring in plenty of boneyononeymoneymoneyo shortly thereafter he ventwentwentt to aittalftalt lake city to obtain funds from the secretary of the companiocompanycompanyocompanyoenyo afteraitbeing told thatthab no funds were available koyle informed theibe secretary thatabattbatthat he would soon have more money than he could handlehandiehandleohandled grant statement ppo 11llolioiloiio110 57 bidibid 581nterviewinterview with drdro reed Rho Bradforbradforddp june27june 272 1961196io bradford grevgrovgrewgrow up in the near vicinity of the minendneononeo he is atafeabeabb present a professor hamohamm young proveprovo of sociology at the brighamBrigharo university 9.9 utahitahoutaho koyle did relent however and the analysis which followed showed no trace of plat inineidoinuido 59 59fqrfor many this was a fufurtherrthearthe r confirmation of koylesnoylesboyles prophetic qualiquallquailquairtieaqualitiesotieso see footnote mobernumber twenty threethreesthreeo gothegoehethe decideoldecisionaion of the securities commission in 1925 disallowed the ssiesalesaiedaledaie of security stockistocky therefore onlyomy personal stock could be soldsoldo 31

received which indicated a completeacomplete versalversaiverbalreversalre of originabriginaoriginal1 piattplattplatinumnum estimates disappointed persons who came to koyle for redress received an

additional share of stock for each one they had pirohpirchpurchasedased during the

boom

1929 to 1991949 the long yearbyears when the platinum episode of 1991929 turned oatout to be a bust rathelrather than a boom many became disillusioned in koyle and his dreams nevertheless an event which occurred later in the year returned him to the position of honor he had previously enjoyed in the eyes of the dissenters As was often the case throughout his career he seemingly exercised a power of foresight whereinwherein he was able to foretell a future event with utmost accuracyaccuracyo according to his wife koyle arose early one morning in june and

tilinem morytbs in a most solemn manner predicted 9.9 four months from today wall street is going to crash causing a terrible financial panic in the united states thousands of people on every side willwilawild be going bustedbastedobustedo it it was also predicted that money ouldouidwould be tight 11restocklivestock11restock would be off property owners would be hard hit and the country bouldvould enter the four years of famine and drought aichhichwhich heh had seen in dreadsdreams on two previous occasions before the latter period had passed thetiletlle minemide would begin to produce in order that money might be available to finance the storing of aa vast quantities of grain which would save manymany from starvetioiiostarvatjol 6a

61 grant statement p 14iboiko140 according to orantgraatgrant this statement by mrs koyle was made during the month of august 1929199o1990 3

with the crash of the stock market in october 19291929.1929j the plati-

num bust was soon forgotten 0 the years of 1930 andondo nd 1931 were hard ones and it appeared that the remainder of koylesboyles prophecy wooldwouldwo aldaiduld be fulfilledfalfilledo the annual outing of 1931 which celebrated the thirty seventh

year since the founding of the minedmine was a joyous oneoneo william Aao jonespjonesbjones mine secretary addressed the group assembleassembledassembledodo during his oration he

recalled prophecies of koyle whichsho shovedshowedt7edtiedteedvied the time was near when the mine would begin producing property he said was mortgaged to the limalimo11malimitodimito cars and trucks the size of boxcars were on the highwayhighwaysoso the mining industry was paralyzed utah lake was rearnear its lowest known levelleveileveislovely and the four years of drought appeared to be in its first stagesstagesestageso all these signs had been pointed out by koyle as indicative of the time when the 62 mine would come in with all the signs pointing to an immediate faifilifuifilifuiflujnentment of his revelations koyle in 1932 ordered the construction of a linitinitinlliniquelywdlquelyquely con figulatedfiguratedfigurated concrete flotation millmillo over the years values of varying worth had been found in the dinepminepmine but none in sufficient quantityquantify to merit the refining and processing of the ores which contalcontatcontainedned themthemo the problem koyle explained was that the values were present but the oureuro ur rent methods of processing were not capable of extracting them sfftcientlysefficientlysufficiently from the ore he maintained that instead of separating the vavalueslueaueiue fronfromtrom thetheithal cotirse nialierlal as would ordinrljlyordinarily be the aseaaeaa&ese they teotentendeded to go off in smokesmokeosmoked there was simply no processing plant that cauldcould handle

62P spanish fork rresprepres september 30 1931 po loio10 33 the ore it was such reasoning as this that led to the constructing 63 of the mill during the summer of 1932

of special significance during the early period of construction was the introduction of william howard of salt lake city who was found all to have invented an improved sluce machine or riffle jigjigobigo its method of operation was such that ore previously crushed to eighty or one hundred mesh size when placed in the jig and treated with water would form a dark almost black scum called the it solutionsolutionssolutiono from this solution or scum the metal concentrates from the previously crushed ore would be realized it did not take a great deal of salesmanship to convince koyle that this was the ore treating process he needed to secure his vaporizvaporize ing values accordingly howard was placed undercontractunder contract to install a crusher two units of his sluce machine and get the mill into operation 64 at the earliest possible date As word of hovardhowardhowards innovation spread the it gold fever took root in the hearts of the faithful declared assay estimates of over

63 samuel W taylor time and the dream mine esquire LXI november 1931943 106106log taylor as a result of an interview with koyle placed the cost of the mill at 6000060000 this amount is far in excess of the actual cost in the official report of an investigation made in december 1932 by the state securities commission the cost figure is set at near 20000 at this time the mill was nearly complete it must be remembered that the salaries of the employeeswereemployees were rather low and usually paid in shares of stock not cash furthermore a good deal of the materials such as windows paint etc were contracted for with stock as the medium of exchange the price quoted for stock in 1932 was 150 per share 64 statement by james E talmage september 26 1932 located in the files of the utah state securities commission 343

1200 per ton did much to encourage the fever in announcing these estimates however the informants neglected to state that the per ton referred to was in terms of concentrates and not raw ore howard stated that he did not know how many tons of ore itittift would take to make a ton of concentrates he estimated that his machines were capable of 65 handling about fifty tons of ore each during a twenty four hour perloperiod koyle in the meantime was overjoyed atax the way events were progressing he assured investors that more than forty tests had been run which proved that the values had been located the mill was to be in operation before the end of the month and all comers would see that there was no deception he further stated that hundreds of tons of the valuable ore were piled in the side drift awaiting processingprocessngoprocess nbonggngo in the meantime interested investigators were encouraged to visit the murphy boiler and iron works in salt lake city where they could see a 66 model of howards reduction machine in operation

651bid651bidibid J 0 christensen in his investigation found as did jerry smith of the dedesereteret newinews that wild reports claiming assay estimates of up to i000000.0000001000000 per ton were circulating in areas where stock was held some 600 tons of ore were to be milled daily from this each stockholder was to receive one dollar every three days as a dividend on each share of stock he possessed ailallali remaining money was to be used for the relief of the IDSLDS church and the furthering of its cause in the world both christensen and smith reported that such claims were ridiculous and were possibly started by howard or an assoassociateclateelate ini n an effort to sell their machine Christenchristensenbensen report p 4

66 letter written by carter E grant to james Eeo tatalmagetaimageimage august 6 1932 located in the files of the utah state securities commission 35 by 19331933. it was evident that the crudely designed apparatus would not qualify for its expected task according to Jjo 000oo chrischristensenChrls tensen and others the sluce machines could hardly have handled normal ore 67 much less manufacture values where they did not existexistoedisto inspiteinspire of great disappointment koyle and hishashighag associates worked

optimistically through the years from 1933 to 19371937.193719370 during the latter year another ray of hope arrived at the mine in the form of john harper and his associates gus englehardt and jake brakhagebrakhagco thesthese men claimed to have a revolutionary type processing plant which was an invention of harper the plant they asserted contained a special cheicherchemicalnical solution which had the power of dissolving the metals contained in the oreoreo it was claimed that the values previously reported to have disappeared in 68 smoke could now be preservedpreservedopreservedo 69 early demonstrations were sufficiently impressive that a mass meeting of stockholders and interested persons was held in the spanish

67christensen67christensen report ppo 4 68R interview with norman Cco pierce april 23 195719570 69thethe early processing was done with rough makeshiftmake shift equipment which had been hastily constructed by the promoter with the idea of impressing the mine operatorsoperatorsooperatorsetorso the first halftonhalf ton of ore treated produced sufficient selenium and iron hydroxide to meritmerib shipping it to harrison co000cooooo of chicago illinoisIllinillinoiseillinoisooiSo pierce ojojto ppo 43430 speakitigspeak tibtigtyg to a friend at the time the previously accepted plant vasvaevaowaswae completely installed koyle stated that the mill was ready to begin processing his fabulous oreoreo this I1 he saldsaid was definitely itito the money voulawould now start to roll in he emphasized this by showing his listener a theckcheck for over 100 which he said was the amount received from a shipment of values 0 this he asserted was only the beginning 0 bradford interview 0 36

fork high school auditorium here the virtues of the new plant and its inventor were made the subject of much oratory the stockholders and friends present were so impressed vithwith the proclaimed proprospectsspeAs off the new process that they readily agreed to be responsible for the financing of the expensive projectprojectsprojecto

in due time the plant was installed in therhe flotation mill nichniehihichihchich iehichleh seemed to have been built to the exact specifications necessary to house it the transferring of the plant from the planipianiplaningig boards to large scale

production however created many problems 0 production was impeded toho the extent that discouragement soon followed furthermore the ore was found to be very low grade hlisthisblis coupled with the fact that they had been induced to take stock and a percent of the production as part payment for their process convinced the inventors that they should go elsewhere 70 to invest their time and knowledge once again koyle had been wrong apparent ty he could predict anything except that which he wanted mostmosto eiselshisillslilsliis fish verewere proviprovingprovingng to 71 be very illusiveillusiveo undaunted by the awareness that his many 11 signs11signs of the thirties had been misleading koyle announced again in 194319193 j that uieulethehieohe time badhad finally comecameocomeo he maintained that he had seen in a dream the exact spot

pieree70pierce70pierce interview june 2t196127j196lo feelingyeeling among stoistokstockholderssholderskholders after harper and his companions pulled out was that they had salted the ore when demonstrating their processprocesso this led to their firfindingding selenium in some quantity in ore that did not produce a trace in later analysisanalyslsanalyses 71 tiveryciveryveryvecy often in describing the richness of the ore bodies heh hadhradherdhead seen koyle said they reminded him of fish lying with their headheads off and entralscentrals out all ready for the frying pan 37

number yive produceoproduced where tunnel tivefive 1 located in the side driftdrifty would produce this revealed location was then evident they had only to begin taking 72 out the ore in conjunction with and lending significance to this latest claim was the installation at the nullmill of a newly invented electric ore furnace and the discovery of an improved flotation processprocesso both of these innovations were put to extensive use processing the ore from tunnel number five however as in earlier experienceexperlencesp the ore proved to be low gradegradce by the end of 1944 the project was abandoned 73 as a failure

11TT perhaps due to previous disappointment or because of world war 9.9 little attention was given to these activities at the mine therefore koyle and a few close associates were the only persons distressed when 1944 74 passed and no values were forthcoming for the chieflichief dreamer these repeated failures had become exasperateexasperating neoagongo he koyle was now eighty years old and had been at his task for forty eight years it had bebecomeome difficult to convince people that his dreams were not just a matter of 75 too much liver and onionsonionse A very fortunate prediction made by koyle in augustaugusta 1942 which

72 taylor op citeiteltcito ppe loh104204lokolobo2.041040 also appendix 11iiolioito piercepieree73pierce73PiercepiereePlerce 2pcppp citelteitcitoeitoelto ppo 45450 74 stockholders in the mine proudly refer to one another as dreamers 7 75fiilmorefillmore interviewintervieweinterviewed anongamong nondreamersnon dreamers it was a common say ing that every time koyleshoylesboyles wife gave him liver and onions for supper he wvoaidwoaldouad1d go to bed and have a dream about the mine or some unforeseeable event interview with Jjo ross jones janejune 24 1961 jones is a nephew of william A jones early secretary of the koyle mining companiocompanyCompcompanyoanyo 38

was presumably fulfilledfalfulfuifilled in augustaugusta 19519451945. rallied the faithful onteonce more to the cause it appears that while vistvisitingtinbting in the home of his

dentist dr alfred brooksby in fredonia arizona 9.9 koyle stated that in three years from that date august 27 world war ilII11 would be overaveroovero he insisted that this statement of foreknowledge be written down as proof that he had made it he declared this same prediction on a number of occasions soon it was widely known and its pospossiblesiblesibIe fulfilfulfillfulfillmentimentament WAS 76 curiously awaited with the hiroshima bomb becoming historynislorynistory on august

515.15 19419455 followed by the signing of the peace treaty by the japanese on

august iblb14242.4 world war IT had only to availawaltawait thethlethie formal surrender on september 2 in order to be officially over the war being practically if not officially over by augastaugust 27 1951945 restored to koyle his slightly tarnished prophets mantel and allaliail apparent mismls judgmentsmisjudgments of the past were forgotten an immediate prediction by him that the mine would begin producing one year from this previously foreseen date caused thetche boldgold

t fever to once again become alive among the dreamersdredreamersoamerso As durlduriduringnubrognug the

1930s people flocked to the mlmirieminerje offering their financial and physicaphysicalphy&icai support true to the pattern set during eaearliernaerrAer periods the appointed date came and went with nothing of value coming from the minemincomineo tietlethe prophet had missed again

during the ensuing years until 199194919 9 activity at the miaemine continued but with completely negative resultstesres aitsuitsatts early in 1948 9 koyle con- may tracted an illness which increased in seriousness until P 19491.94919 aj9j when

76 brooksby interview 39 he was taken to the paysonpay son city hospital 0 on may 17 at thetche age of 84 77 koyle died and was buried in the spanish fork cemeterycemeteryo

with the exception of the annual assessassessmentnentment work amounting tottofcotco 8000 a virtual shushwshutdowndovin occurred at the time of boyleskoyles deathdeathadeatho with this event active falth on the part of most orthodox believers appeared to assume an indifferent wait and see attittideattifcadeo under these conditions the iron gate to the main tunnel remained closed thetche winze filled part way with water and the ore cars and railsrallsralis becamebecazne rusty and in need of repairrepairsrepairo the koyle relief mine took on the appearance of an abandoned mining camp of the eighteighteenoen hundreds

77 the salt lake tribune may 19 19919491949. Ppo 7 CHAPTER iliillIII111311

CHURCH opposition TO THE MINE since 1894 various obstacles have been effective inhibitors of progress at the koyle mine lack of funds lack of workers and lack of machinery were constant sources of discouragediscouragementdiscouragementsmentsmente these however were internal problems and were usually overcome or at least explained away the main opposition suffered by the operators of the mine centered in occasional disgruntled stockholders the utah state securities commission 1 and the IDSLDS church the latter concerned a question of religious heritage and authoritarian control in opposition to personal convictions had the mine owners been indifferent to the first two factors they could have operated with far more freedom especially freedom of conscience As it was however they were members of the latter day saint church and being such by personal choice were bound by emotional thongs which for the most part would direct them along any path insisted upon by the church whenever a contrary course was taken it was usually prompted by honest convictions and not due to some rash impulse or intentional challenge

1 it might be supposed that the habitualhabit aaiaal absence of paying ore would have been the chief deterrent of progressprogresso on the contrary however this did not seem to bother anyone for any length of time the conspicuous lack of any type of machinery within the mine was a source of frustration for some newcomers 0 they questioned the wisdom of using picks shovels and explosives to excavate in scores of years that which modern machinery was capable of doing in far less timetimeo the stock answer to this supposition was that koyle had been told not to use any modern apparatus that would hasten or make easy the unveiling of the boundless stores of mineral wealthwealths the project was to be an extreme test of patience and willingness to suffer no progressive innovations were to be aia i lowedblowedallowed to temper this 4040 41

of authority often such an act was induced by a conflict of values wherein unorthodox convictions superimposed themselves aponupon traditional truths and for a time blotted them outautoouto this was increasingly true toward the end of koylesboyles carberocareercareero in fact he was ultimately freed from all governing forces which were centered in the churchcharchochurcho

the latter day saint church and the koyle relief minmine during the early years of the mine koyle claimed to receive the blessings of some church authorities both local and generalgenerals his stake 2 president from whom he sought counsel reportedly said that the mine was of god when he approached apostle george T teasdale he was told god bless couoyouyouo go ahead J golden kimkimballballbailbali of the first council of 3 seventy and apostle matthiasMatthlasJas cowley were stockholders and lifeilfeiffelifelonglongiongdong 4 friends of koylekoylerkoyleo

p 2aaaA stake president serving with two councilorscouncillorscounci lors and a body of twelve men called the high council preside over a variable number of wards assigned to his stake or districtdistrictsdistricto athe3thethe first council of seventy is a body of seven men which act under the direction of the council of twelvetwelveotwelvemo 11it presides over the irsiarsifireffiredF quorum of seventy of which it is a parlpartparz as vellveilveliwell as over all quorimsquorums of seventies 4 4interviewinterview with quayle dixon june 23 1961 an active civi and religious leader in the spanish fork area and the present director of the recently incorporated relief mine companyCompanyo koyle averred thathat when the two nephiwephitestes appeared in 1914 they instructed him to furnish Jjo golden kimball with 500 shares of stock even ifjf he could not pay for itito some time later when kimball desired to purchase exactly that amount it is reported that koyle handed him the certificate which hetieilelle had already made outautoouto 42

may on 31 1908 9.9 koyle was sustained as bishop of the leland 5 ward nebo stake of the LDS church 0 prior to this appointment he served as a councilor to the former bishop having been called at the time 6 the ward was organized in 190029001.900 it is apparent by these appointments that koyle was at this time in good standing with his superiors in the church although his dream about the mine was widely known the actual operation had been of a semiprivatesemi private naturelatureonatureo only a few friends early believers had become directly involveinvolvedinvolvedede it was not until after the incorporation of the company in 1909 that the dream mine it affair was

brought to the critical attention of the church 0 by 1913 stock sales were being made throughout most of utahitahoutaho hundreds of members of the IDSLDS faith encoeneoencouragedaragelaraged by the itwill of god image associated with the enterprise and the overwhelming promises of stock salesmen were caught in the whirlpool of speculationspecuiatioue during the period from 1909 to 19131913.19139 many disturbing reports concerning the mine and the visions connected with it reached church headquarterheadqiartersheadquartersheadquartersoso sensing that the problem was taking on rather sizeable dimensions the authorities directed apostle james Eee talmage to go to the koyle property and conduct a comprehensive investigationinvestigationsinvestigationo

after examining the 11400boohoo400.400 foot shaft which he described as irregular tunneling which wandered throughout the mountain with no vis

5minutesminutes of the weekly meeting of the general authorities of tlethe it church of jesus christ of latterlotter day saints journal historyhistoryp june 3 1908 p 8 available inim the church historians officeofforflreireice salt lake citycityocilyo 6 stoulpstoutpstout op citcitecito p 220 433

ibieible objective he pronounced the property as worthless 0 after being pressed as to whether his decision was based on his knowledge as a geologist or if he spoke from the standpoint of his apostleship he answered 7 that his declaratdeclarantdeclarationdecldeciarat lonton was that of an apostle and in the namenarne of godgodo As a result of taiTaltabnagestalmagesbalmagesTabnagesmages report the first presidency on apriaprilI

22 and again on jujulydulyayiy 19 91319131 corresponded with stake president jonathan S page the ecclesiastical authority directly responsible for the actions of bishop koylekoyieo full information concerning the mine and its founder was requested on august 2 1913 apparently satisfied by pages report that the dream mine situation was serious the first presidency mmadeadelde public the following statement

A WARNING voicev01ceTO ICE to the officers and teachers of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints from the days of hiram page doedocdoco & cov secseco 28 at different periods there have been manifestations from delusive spirits to members of the church 0 sometimes these have iometomecome to men and women who because of transgression become easy prey to the arch deceiverdeceiversdeceiveroDece ivero at other times these people who pride them selves on their strict observance of the rules and ordinances and ceremonies of the church are led astray by falsefaisefalse spirits who exercise an influence so imitative of that which proceeds from a divine source that even these persons who think they are the liveryvery elect find it difficult to discern the essential differ enceenceoanceo apparently satan has transformed himself to beb an angel of lightilghto when visions dreams tongues prophecyprophecy impressions or an extraordinary gift of inspiration conveys something out of harmony with the accepted revelations of the charchchurch or contrary to the decisions of itsibslbs constituted authorities latter day saints may know that it is not of god no matter how plausible it may appear also ther-theyy should understand that directions for the

7 7spanishspanish fork press july 19 1921 ppo I1lo10 when rhauengedchallengedchalienged to produce a revelation received by himself or anyone else indicating that the mine was not of god taimagetalmage was unable or alat least failed to do sosoesoo 44

guidance of the church will come by revelations through the head all falthffalthafaithfulliililuil members are entitled to the inspiration of the holy spirit for themselves their families and for those over whomtheywhom they are appointed and ordained to presidepresideopresidedpres ideo butDA anything at discord with that which comes from god through the neadhead of the church is not to be received as authoritative or reltdblereliarellarellabloobleoblOo in secular as well as spiritual affairs saints may receive divine guidance and revelations affecting themselves batbut this does not convey authority to direct others and is not to be accepted when contrary to church covenants doedocdoctrinestAnes or discipline or to known facts demonstrated truths or good common sensedsensesenseosenge no person has the right to induce his fefellowfellow11ow members of the church to engage in speculations or take stock in ventures of any kind on the specious claim of divine revelation or visioavaisioa or dream especially when itA is in opposition to the voice of recognized authority local or generalgeneralogeneralaogeneraloraio the lords churchchurchy is a house of orderorderobordero it is not governed by individual gifts or manifestations but by the order and poerpower of the holy priesthood as sustained by the voice and vote of tietlethe church in its appointed conferenceconferencesconferencesoso the history of the church records many pretended revelations by impostersimpostors or zealotszealous who believed in the manifestations they sought to lead other persons to accept and in every staneinstancein disappointment sorrow and disaster have resuAreguaresultedted therefromtherefromo financial loss and sometimes utter ruinrutn havhave follofollowedfollowedovedowedoveao we feel it is our duty to warn the latter day saints against mining schemes which have no warrant for success beyond the professed spiritual manifestations of their projectors and the influence gained on the excited minds of their victimvictimsvictimsoso we caution the saints against investing money or property in shares of stock which bring no profit to anyone but those who issue and trade in themthemo financial schemes to make money fortor the alleged purpose of ti redeeming zion dror providing means for the salvatisalvationsalvatiorkorkore of the dead or other seemingly worthy objects should not deceive anyone acquainted with the order of the churchchurchy and will result only in a waste of time and labor which might be devoted now to doing something tangible and worthy and of rerecordord on earth and in heaveheaven ho be not led by any spirit or influence thatthabthad discredits established authority contradicts true sclentificscientific prinprinciplesaplesiples and discoveries or leads away from the direct revelations of god for the government of the churchcharchochurcho the holy ghost does not contradict itsAs own revearevealingrevealingsrevealingsolingsSo truthtrothgrothgruth isJs always harmonious with itselfitselfo piety is often the cloak of errorerraroerroro the counsels of 45

the lord through the chaehachannelnael he has appointed willwdliii11.11 be foifol ye lowedblowed with safety theretotherefore9eae 01 latte r day saints brofftprofitprofft by these words of warningwarning 0 s joseph Ffo smith Arithonanthonarlthon Hho landlund charles Wwo perpelosepenoserosecosenose first presidency

with this statement P the churchchurchy indirectly butbul clearly indicated its position in reference to thehc koyle affaaffairsaffairotr actions rimpatompatcompat0

ible with this stand were decided upon in a meeting of the Generageneral1 authorities on august 7 1913 after a detailed review of the infomationformationinfonraion received from president page president joseph foF smith suggested that elder francis M lyman of the Courcouncilcouricilicil of the twelve be responsible to0 o see that the nebo stake presidency perform its duty by releasing koyle 9 as bishop of the leland wardwardo this action was taken on august 24 during the quarterly conference of the nebo stakestakcostacco under the direction of apostle lyman the stake presidency released koyle as bishop and 101.0loio ordained lars peter olsenoisen01 sen in his steadsteadesteado on august 16 the church emphasizedrereemphasized its attitude toward the mine and those who would invest in itjt by reproducing the article toff iiil111.1 august 2 under the heading of dreammines mineso

Q 8deseretDeseredeserefcfc hewsnewsnewsjnewsy church sectionseclseelsect ionlon august 2 11911119391 33. ppo I1lo10

i 9mintrrminucesMinuminutesoeslesjesces journal history august T7 1913 Ppo 330 itjt wasas the apparent hope of the authorities that such a strong show of disfavor on their part would discourage further support of the mine by members of the church 0 10 ibidibidoebido august 28 1913 pop 606 koylfkoyle is said to have been an active and highly respected bishopbishopebishopo it is reported that the members of his ward voted onehundredone hundred percent to retain himnimbimohimo

news 1 deseret church Sesectionetton august ib16 0 J9131913 Ppo lo10 46

the original statement was introduced by the following eonconeomcommentcommentsment owing to the importance of the subject treated in the letter af6f the first presidency to the officers and members of the church which appeared in the deseret news of august and2nd of this year it is reproduced at the head of this column we trust the saints generally will profit by the advice given and in order to bring it to the attention of all members it might be well to cause the letter to be read in ward meetings or stake conferences or other similar gatherings of the peoplepeopleopeopled the first presidency warns the saints against investing in worthless stockstocky even if promoters allege that they are guided by dreams and revelations ittt Is a timely warning almost everyone has heard stories of how such and such found a rich mine by following directions given in a dream and many fondly hope for similar luck but in most instances it will be found on investigation that such stories have little or no foundfoundationatlon in factfactotacto they belong to a class where rumors which like the wind itbloflowethblowethweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereoftherethereofoofo but canstcanet not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth no one should be guided by such rumors but by reason enlightened by the holy spiritspirito it is a safe rule not to accept the council of anyone who is in any way antagonistic to those who have been duly appointed to lead and guide israelismaelisraelaisraelo and it will be found that the promoters of dream mines and vision enterprises generally are of that class o- they find fault and pass judgment without justificationjustificationsjustificationo but by that very fact they warn the saints to steer clear of them p just as the ringing or whistling of buoys during foggy weather call attention to rinersmarinersmarineroma to the presence of danger by the noise they makemakeojakeo inasmuch as the church cannot legislate physical or penal punish- ment against offenders of its various codes its most powerful recourse in stemming or correcting misconduct or disobedience is a threat of excommunication in early june lgj4igi1911914 such action was deemed necessary to curb the continued activities of the koyle mining companiocompanyCompcompanyoanyo at this time president page and the high council of the nebo stake acting under the direction of the president of the churchchurchy summoned the executives of the company to appear before them at this hearing the accused were 47 intinfinformedormed that allailallailali mining operations and stock sales must cease immediately or koyle would be cut ofofff from the churchchurche in answer to his request for a statement of the charges against him the president of the company was shown a letter from president joseph Fpo smith which listed the accusations as 1 1 that koyle intended to redeem all of the deaddeadadeadj 2 thatthatt he was going to utilize thet he wealthwealth of his mine in building theth cityolty nfof zion

mis in jackson county j Mlsmissourisouri 3 that he intended to increase the capital stock of the company then sell out and make himself rich and 4 that he was receiving revelation for other members of the church contrary to his right to do sosoo referring to the charges as being completely false koyle asked that his case be referred to a higher authority nanielynajnelynajnardanielynely the president of the church contrary to normal court procedure the request was granted causing a delay in the decision at handhando some time later president page visited the church headquarters and presented koylesboyles pet-

ition the request wasas denied by president smith who stated that laehelie did not wish to meet with koyle and discuss the minemincomineo he informed page that it was his responsibility to closciosclose the mine andarldarid see that no more stock was sold or else proceed with his alternative decree which required that koyle be excommunicateexcommunicatedexcommunicatedodo 1.4 in compliance wiwithh this ultimatdmultimatum14ta the koyle mining company on june 24 1914 dispensed with all operationsoperatlonso not until september 1920 12 was full scale activity resiresidedresimedmesiresuresumedomesumedredomedo at the time of the shutdown the company was heavily in debt to the coopco op store in spanish fork an affiliate of the church owned zcm1zcm1o

12 grant statement iopo 3.330 48 it appears that the economymindedeconomy minded heber Jjo grant who became president of the church in november 1918 was annoyed at the annual appearance of this debt on the coopco op books he therefore granted the koyle mining company the right to renew operations with the stipulation among other 13 things that the debt owing the coopco op be made good at an early datedafceo

between 1920 and 292192182921819282.921818 nothing of record was said or done against the mine by the general authorities of the church nevertheless some persons in high positions on a local level kept the issue alive by constantly referring to it in ward and stake gatherings however such dis crediting of the venture was an expression of individual convictions and did not represent the voice of the churchcharchochurcho with the seeming absence of opposition from the leading brethren on the matter rumors were circulated in eary 19281.928 to the effect that james E talmage had reversed his stand toward the minernlnco inspired by reports of this falsehood taltaitaimagetalmagedagemage sent the following statement to the editor of the deseret news asking that his words be published in that paper

DREAM MINES editor deseret news word having reached me to the effect that I11 have expressed favorable opinion regarding present and prospective value of a certain mining property situated near salemsa1emsajem utah county and known variously as the koyle mine relief mine and dream minelmine I1 deem it advisable to make the following statement several years ago at the request of parties concerned including some of the officials of the company operating the

13pierce13 piereepierce opopo citeiteltcitoeitoelto0 ppo 18 49

property I1 made an examination of the ground and excavations thereon and reported to the effect that I1 found the so called mine wholly barren of ore and that the geological conditions were such as to offer no indication or promise of ore of a commercial nature being discovered on the properiopropertyproperyoproperyo I1 have held the same opinion since the time of my examination and holdhoid it ttodayotocayooday furthermore when I1 visited the property I11 was told that the mining operations theretofore carried on and then in progress had been largely influenced and directed by alleged dreams and visions of supernatural character received by cecertainrtain of the company officials and other interested parties by whom these statements were made known to mem personallypersona liyo

I11 amarn now informed that claims of supernatural direction in operating this mine are still currentcurrents and that I1 am understood as having endorsed themthenie I1 absolutely dtscladisclaimim having given the least credence to any such alleged man- ifestationsfestations whether dream vision or otherwiseotherwiseo to the contrary immediately after making the examinationexami nation and hearing the statements of persons claiming to have received supernatural aid in directing the work and oriorlon many later oc- casionscasions I1T emphatically declared that I1 regarded the alleged manifestations as spurious and that the setting forth of such claims allegations or intimations as inducements to prospective purchasers of stock was wholly 4njusiunjustifiableififiabiablab le and fund- amentally brongowrongwrongo I17 reaffirm this novnowhowonowo s james Eeo talmage may 4 1928 church offices 474 east south temple saltsallsaitsali lake citycily utah on july 15 1928 at the quarterly conference of the nebo stake talmage once again addressed his remarks to the subject of the koylekeyreyroyie mine after referring to his 1913 visit to the koyle property and rer affirming his declaration of that date he denounced atlailallatiali stock se settine111ngidineiding schemes in which securities were sold with the idea that the enterprienterenterprisepri se

141 deseret news church section may ikiai4 39281928 Ppo 1 50 was being directed by supernatural means namingnam ing the koylekeykoyie mine as an

example 0 he urged members of the church to have nothing to do with such enterpriseenterprisesenterprisesoso he emphasized this by saying I1 say to you that the misrepresentations which have been made in selling the stock of the koylkoyikoyle mine are of the evievlevil1 oneoneo I1 come to you as a representative of the presidency and the quorum of the twelve to warn you against it31 0 I11 warned the owners in the name of the lord and as his apostle that it is barren and always will bebeo the church will not close this mine or any other mine or enterprise that is legal because the church will not interfere with private interests batbut the church willwili taetake a decided stand against anybody who tries to induce others to buy stock on the representation that angels of god have revealed these things and that the proceeds are to be used for the buildingbuibul Iding up of the churchcharchochurcho dont raise your hand to sustain the prophets of the lord and authorities of the church unless you are willing to follow their cocounsellinsel and adviceadvicco if evereven there was a day when the church was led bby the gift of revelation it is this daydayo the authorities are notpot asking you I1 drdo anything that they are not doing themselvesthymselvesthymihemselvesoselves they are leadinglead ribrrbrig and asking the membership to followfollowsfollowo 5

koyle was present during inetutetunethe delivery of this sertoriosersermoriosermonmorio at inetherne time he appeared nonplusnonplussednonplushednonpias&edsed and quietly accepted the accusations of his superiorsuperiorssuperiorosuperioromoro many years laerlater however he described these remarks byb tal 161.6iglg mage as the most striking single blow he had ever receivereceivedreceivedodo during the early thirties statements offensive to the chorch were liberally circulatedcirculatedcirca lated by persons close to the koylekevkovkey ie enterpriseenlerpriseo thphethe claim that the authorities had changed their attitude toward the mine was widely heldheidheldoheidobeldo seeing that dreamers everywhere were emphatjemphatirayaj y declaring that the time of the mine had finally ararrivedrivedrAved it fouadwoludmouldmouidwouad appear that

J spanish fork press july 19 1928 ppo 1lo10 jfifejaife opopo citcito ppo lo10iaolao110 51 this was a gimmick used to encourage the purchase of stockstocks also a later assertion that koyle was to betoeboe introduced at a future general conference as the one mighty and strong who would utilize the immense wealth about to flow forth from the dream mine in leading the church back to jackson county missouri was obviously the outpouring of some onetonesonegs fertile lanaginationogiginationgunationnation 17T however ridiculous these allegations may have been they were considered sufficiently serious to warrant a strong buttlerebuttlerebottlere by the church hierahierarchyrebyneby on september 19 1932 the following pronouncement appeared in the deserlldeserlydeseret sewsnewss accompanied by the 1913 decdeclarationatlon of the first pres idency1idency18 and the 1928 statement by tait&itaimagetalmagemureo reaffirmingre4ffirmingre&ffirming his conclusions 19 of 1913

CEMCHCHURCH PIWVM beawbeamSTAW OHON KOKOYLE dreanDRMDREAM KMMMB the attitude of church officialofficials concerning certain features in the mining operations of the koyle mining company at the dreandreamdream1111 or 10 relief mine east of salem remains the same today as it was expressed in a statement issued in 19131913. it vasvaowaswaewao declared nonlynondaymonday at the church officesoftofficesoicedo the reaffirming of their position came in answer to persistent reports that have reached the general authorities that stories are being circulated alleging that the church hasbasheshebbabhab changed its position in regard to the dream mine the erroneous reports are that dr james E taiitaliagetalpagetalynageealyTalydagenage of the council of the twelve isie ready to apologize to the mine officials for hishibhl past statements concerning the mine and that he vinwinwill telltenbelibeil the officialsofficiate of the mine to sogo ahead and that the general authbritiesauthoritiesauthbrltleb are opposing elder talmage in hishibhl stand on the voanbreamvreamream mineienea that they havebave called

trcarlitoncarleton letterietter ypo 2 beassaessee appendix IVTV egeren deseret1eseretegeret tebtesjes church section august 2 191319130 P 1 navmynaymay 14 1928 p 1 imisimasibslbsibiP 0 0 522

him to account for his statements made in publicpiabj1 that his church position is in jeopardy unless he apologizes tottofcotco the mine officials and that the general authorlauthoraauthoritiestdesaes are themselves ready to tellteliteilte 11 the mine officials to go atieadafieado 20 during the general priesthood session of the emiamibem3empmi annual confer-

ence in october 19319321.932 in an obvious repudiation of a purported revelation declaring that the mine was of god and that the same should be made known to the members president heber Jjo grant stated unequivocallyunequiyocallylineqm vocally thathat john

11 koyle Is a liar and has been lying to the people fortoreor the lastllastblast twenty i2121 years 0 ittt appears that church opposition kept pace with the activity at the minemineo this was so in 1913 in 1928 and in 191932191201932032 in other years when discouragement indifference and inactivity quieted operations on 22 the it sacred mountain the church leaders paid littlelattlp attention to itito with koyieskoylesboyles successfulsuccess falfuiful prediction of the end of world war 371311 and his resultantresultarotarGtano declaration that the mine would produce ththe following yearyeary feverish preparations were undertaken at the triinedincomineominco these activities

resulted in renewed criticism from the church 0 on Derembercemberdecember 199 195194519 5 thehe oft published 1913 statement of the first Prestpresipresidencydency was ie leasedreleased as a

20 ibid 0 y september ig291929. 1932 ppo 2lo10

21 carlston letter ppo 22.20

22 22dreamersdreamers consider the rugged obtrusion where tttthebuehuet le mine isis lo- which preserve 1 cated to be hallowed 9 deifierdeifieddeifted earth hachhjch has been preervdpreerpreserved vdd and dedi-ded cated for the many humanhumanitarianitaraan purposesp suggestedbuggesuggestedsiedsled by koylegoyiegoylekoylerkoyleo 53 renewed warning to the members it appeared on this occasion under the signatures of presidents george albert smith Jjo reuben clark jr and david 000oo mckaymikayomckayo they prefaced the warning bytoyboy stating that continued reports had reached them concerning longstandinglongiong standirgstanding evils which the members had been warned against many years before in order that there vouvoulawoulawouldid be no justi- fificationcation for any misunderstanding by members of the church regarding the attitude of the first presidency on this matter they were having the 1913 statement reprinted and commended it to the careful consideration of allaliailalloailo 23 in september 194619 an editorial appeared in the church section of the deseret news once again answering numerous inquiries as to whether or not the church had changed its position toward the koyle mine and if apostle talmagetaimage had admittedadmitted be was mistaken in what he had said about the affair the members were once again given to understand that at no time hadbad the church officials changed their attitude regarding the activities of thekoylethe koviekoyle mining companioCompcompanycompanyoanyo reference was made to the various proclamproproclaimclam atlonsationsallons of the authorities dating back to 1913 the talmagetaimage statement of 1928 was repeated in part and the results of an investigation of the mine in 1933 lyby drdredro frefredrickdrick Jjo pack ortheoftheodtheof the university of utah were eivenogivengiveno the article concluded with the following counselcounsels at various times backers of this mine have reported the discovery of both gold and platiplatinumnumo but their teststeats havebave failed under assay however the thing against which the authorities of the church warn the people is the claim of supernatural

23 deseretdesertjewgnews church sectionsectionssectionj december 29 19450195 Ppo 1 1I

direction in this minemineo adladiallaliail members of the churchurchih are urged to follow the advice of the general authorities in this regarregardd and avoid the disappointment that has come to many who have preferred to believe in the so called dreams and visvisions24ons cfof men seeking by supernatural means to operate mines on january 7 197194719 kolegolekoyle was called before the president and high council of his stake where a formal church court was heldheidheldoheido acacordord ing to the few accounts whihwhichchih are available the proceedings in some respects composed a scene of questquestionable1orab1e justice in a becusecusecularlar court the accused normally has the advantage of a nonpartisannon partisapareisapartisann judge and juryjoryo every- As occasioned here 9.9 however this was not the easecasecasedeasedcasco practicpracticallyilly

one present was veliveilwellweil versed in the history of the mine in addition tofcobho

being intimately acquainted with Jitsts aged prophet 0 partisan feelings for and against the old nanman were such that emotions might very veligeil have replaced facts as a basis for judgmentjudgmentsJudgjudgmentomento As it turned out koyle was presented whwith a pitiless decree which required that he eilelleithereltherther repudiate aliallailali divine rclaiclaimsms with resperespectt to the mine accept fully and completely the stand of the first presidency regarding his mining operation and retract all statements wherein he said the church leadership was mistaken in its attitude towardtowardobard himbimjim and his work or suffer excommunication from the churocaurocharchochurchoi it was said that mylesmyieshoyles mind at this point was in a ampompomeletompletieteletebete quandaryquandaryoquandaryo he repeatedly bore testimony to the reart alillitvaliualluliev of his numerous supernatural experiences and wept becabecauseliseiisetise of the Incerincertitincertitudetitbitude h exper iencedfenced in facing so firm an ultimatumultlmatume As in 19131913. he desperately sought to stay the decision of the court by requestingrequesilfng a hearing withith the presiprest

24 ibidib id 0 september 1946 ppo ilo10 55

dent of the church 0 As this was a contrary procedure the plea was denied with no visible way out and persuaded by a close associate who begged for heavens sake bishop dont let them take away your membersmembershiphip koylkoyikoylfkoyle signed the prepared tementostastatementstatementsstatemento before signing however he stipulated that the document should not be made public until after he haabaahadbad a bamechancehame to present his case to the head of the churchchuncho apparently the local authorities fully intended to honor this agreement but when it was made clear that such a meeting could not rightfully be arranged the statement was 22sas released to the press and appeared in print on the follofollowingwirg daydayo the early shockshook waves caused by keyless act were soon resolved

1 in an attitude of disbeliefdisbeliefo it was shortly apparent thathatthai11 thetbeabe acticaceticarticle1eae of repudiation had been signed simply as a means of retaining membershipmembership in the church for koyle and possibly for some who were closely assorassociatedlated with him in a short time weekly meetings at the mine were resumed and activities proceeded at an accelerated ratematematecmateo during the months that followed koyle completely ignored the requests made of him in the statement he had signedsignedo this obvious indifference to the expressed attitude of the church reresultedsuisu1sua 4 ed in a directdixectdirect- ive from the first Prestapresidpresidencyeneyency wherein the leaders of the palmyra stake were counseled to deprive koyle of his membershipmembershipsmembershipomembers hipo accordingly apostle mark E petersen was sent to spanish fork as an adladiadvisorrisor to the local auth oritiesoritiesooriorltiestieso on april ly1 1948 the trial was held and the ultimate disciplindiscipline

OC 25deseredeserett news y january 8 194194.1947 ppo 1lo10 also appendix Vvo information concerning the trial was received from reliable individuals who ask ed that their names not be mentioned since tte official trial record was not made publicpublico 56 ary power of the church was exercised to the end that koyle was escomexcom tunicatedmunicatedmunicatedomunicatedtedo on the day following this incident the deseret news com- mented on the proceedings and stated that the action was taken due tottofcotco 26 insubordination to the rules and authority of the churchcharchochurcho throughout the trial koyle had very little to saysayo he had been ill for some time and appeared to pay little attention to the proceedingproceedingsproceedingsese As judgment was passed howeverphowehoweververPverj he rose to his feet and called down the wrath of heaven upon those trying himhimo the special object of his attack was apostle mark petersen whom he felt had engineered his trial and ex- 27 communication 0

may since koylesboyles excommunication and subsequent death on 17 j 199199.1949 the church has remained distantly aware of the mine and its leading personalities some of the sons and daughters of known stockholders when called to serve as missionaries have been questquestionedtoned concerning their personal attitudealtitude toward the minemincomineo members of the board of dlrecdurecdirectorstorgtors and some other leading stockholders are ocoasiona11yoccasionally coursecounsecounseledled to hold their company activities in keeping with the standards of the chwichchurewi bho an indication of this more relaxed attitude was the recent ordination of merrill koyle to the office of bishop of the salem second ward this was done in spite of the fact that he Is a son of the former dreamidreamadream mine prophet and at the time was a member of the board of directorsdirectdirectorsoorsoorgo heH did

26 ibidibidoebido april 16 1948 ppe blobioB 1lo 271nterirlewinterview with apostle mark E petersen june 27 196019600 contrary to the thinking of many koyle partisans petersen was in spanish fork at the time of the trialtriai but did not atlattendend ititaito he was prepresentserit only in case advice on procedure was neededneededo beiBedbelievingIeving that Peterpeterietpetersetpetersensetget vaswasas responsible for his being excommunicated koyle is said to have called down the i go judgments of heaven upon him stating thathaithat he would down down 9 down

.9 opo po and out of the church pierce 9 22 cit P 53530 also fink interview and interview with high councilcouncilnencouncilmencounciljnennen who attended the trialtriaitrialodrialo 57 however resign his position as a director and his wife discontinued her services as secretary of the company at the time of his ordinationsordinationoordinationo 28

summary in conclusion to this chapter it appears advisable to speculate on the source of or reasoning for the strong stand of the church against the mine this heretical cancer that had taken root in the very heart of mormondom koyle often claimed that the whole basis for the argument between himself and the church stemmed from the fact that ouerover the years members of the first presidency had been jealous of him and his angelic visitations the possibility that such a human element may have been involved Is traced to a statement made in 1910 by president joseph F snithsmithsmithasmitho president smith advised at this time that it would be a fine thing if the next temple to be erected by the church would be in old mexico he had just visited the mormon colonies thereotherdothere and being greatly impressed by their faithfulness aadandaaaana industry suggested that they houldshouldehould have a temple previous to thiethib koyle told many of his friendsfriende of a dreandream in which he saw the faintsuaintsbalntb hastily leaving exicomexicoMt having been forced to flee for their ltvolavokivoliveasfiveas aaA a resultresuit of smithssmithy later stastatementtemento koyle was criticized and told that htahibhie drelldrewi vabvafiwabwas from the wrong source to thisthiathig he answeredanoweredanswerer if president smith hadbad seen in a dream what I1 saw he would

2628 ixoniwondixonD interview jmeameno 23023 1961 0 also pierce interview jime 27 196o19601961 the present attltudattlattitudetud of the charchchurch is1 to leave the topic aloneaalonealonep withthewith the hope that in tinotimetimo it will be forfohrohforgottengoltengotten by neetnostnoetmostmeet people and thosethobe who remember it31 wiilwill do soao with indiffrrancoindutprcmcoo 58 know that there would not be enough saints left in mexico to support a temple it is reported that a possibly distorted version of this harmless rebuke of the president was related at church headquarters bringing koyle into immediate disrepute the forced exodus of the members from 29 mexico in 1912 did not improve koylekoylesboyles s supposedly unfavorable position on other occasions koyle indicated that the brethren were not sufficiently informed to pass fair judgment on his enterprise and a number of favorable revelations which they had received concerning it had been disregarded the latter he claimed was the case of president joseph F smith james E talmage and some local authorities who had to be it called homehome11 in order to be reoriented as to the minesmine sacred purpose 303 others have suggested that the position taken by the church was an inspired one typical of this line of reasoning is a statement by marion boyer of springvilleSpringville utah a longtimelong time friend of koyle and a stead- fast member of the church who said if the mine is god inspired then the stand taken by the church is a wise one since it had to take some view whether positive or negative on so controversial an issue it was to the advantage of the mine when it took a negative oneoneo had the church sanctioned the mine stock would have been bought by thousands of fortune seeking members who desirous of immediate returns would never have had the patience and faith which the now more than sixty years would have required of them under such conditions the mine could never fulfill its destiny tf 0 the mine is not of god then the stand of the church was a necessary and correct one in either case it is better to vaitvaltwaitwalt

29 grant statement p 13

30fifefife op citedcitepeitcitelt p 2 also pierce the dream mine story appp 555655 56 and koyle interview may 5 1957 59 and observe the eventual outcome rather than oppose the church in its action 313 there are other views which would suggest an answer to the question of the church mine conflictconflicts for example one stockholder in an anonymous letter to the author stated that the persecutions by the church were due to f f men who were high in office but low in intellectintellectsintellecto 323 it appears however that the most accurate solution is found in an eleme- ntary understanding of the teachings of the church regarding the doctrine of revelation its sources and its limitations this it would seem was adequately presented over the years in the several declarations of theth IDS leaders regarding koyle and his projectprojectsprojecto in a sense it would have been a sign of irresponsibility on the part of the authorities if they had not acted in an attempt to redirectre direct koyle and prevent the spread of a movement which was taking unfair advantage of the religiously ingrained emotions of the people emotions for which the church was to some degree responsible

interview with marion boyer april 30 1 1957-19570

322 letter fron an anonymous stockholder to james Rro christiansonChrist lansonianson july 25 iggi1961 in answer to a questionnaire sent out by the authorauthoraauthoro CHAPTER IV

government opposition TO THE KOYLE RELIEF MINE

on may 151.51 1923 the koyle mining company applied to the utah state securities commission for the right to sell 20000 shares of treasury stock at 15010501501.50 per shareshareoshadeo in harmony with commission policy a qualified engineerengineers report determining the exact merit of the ven- 1 ture was requestedrequestedorequestedo before the investigation was completed however a formal complaint was registered against the company by five of its stockholders dated june 19191 1923 the statement of charges was pre- cipitated by dissatisfactions arising from an annual stockholders meet 2p ing held earlier that year on may 14 the five charged that the corporation was being run in a careless unbusinesslike manner they felt that all efforts to correct the situation had been lenoignoredignoignoredoredocedo anyone who openly questioned this state of afaffairsfairs was told the operation of this mine is none of your business and if you dont like it you can always

report of heber Cco hicks director of the utah state securities commission to the securities commission may 22y22 1925 and december 17 1926 located in the files of the securities commissioncommissionscommissionoCommiss iono with the formation of the commission in 1919 legal restrictions were placed on the sale of company securitiesesecuritiesosecuritiesetieso for the first time since 1909 when its articles of incorporation were granted the koyle mining company became to some degree operationally dependent upon the good will of a government agencyagencyo 2 aletter2letterletterletten addressed to the state securities commission protesting certain alleged activities of the koyle mining company signed by cuoyaw gaw E ho lohmolegLohmoleg L Llo10 holmes Bbo toT noyle and C W thornton june 19 1923 located in the files of the securities commissioncommissionecommissionedconCommissione see chapter III111II11 apoppo 27 28 61

get outautoouto they further complained that no audit had ever been made of

the company books and peterpetter C calistoncaristoncarlstonCariston the man who handled them along with superintendingsuperintending the mine was unfit for his positionpositpositionspositionoionolono other irregu- larilaritiesties which they protestedprotes ted indicated that stock had been sold with the representation that the company owned certain propertpropertiesles which were in reality nonexistentnon existent and several claims which rightfully belonged to the company were in the names of directors who to that date had neglected to restore them to the corporationcorporatiouo in conclusion they requested that before the company be permitted to sell stock the following requirements should be exacted

1 A full and complete audit of the books of said cor- porationporation be made by a licensed expert auditor 0 2 that the office of secretary and treasurer and manager or superintendent be held by separate p qualifiedqua11fled individuals and that they be placed under adequate bonds to the corporation 3 that ailallali claims or patented property held by john H koyle peter Cco carlston or their assignees in the eldorado mining district be deeded to the koyle mining company 4 that any contracts between the koyle mining company and peter Cco carlston be annuledannulled and that said peter C carl- any ston be removed from active participation in the affaffairs1irs of the corporation other than his rights as a stockholder 3

3 it is interesting to note that alallaliailI four of these demands were eventually met to some degreedegreeodegreed by 1924 all claims sixty two in number in the eldorado district were listed as being the property of the koyle mining company during this same yearyearn a partial a adituditaudit was made of the company books bonnett report also chapter II11 p 23 by 1927 carlston was no longer with the koyle concern and the offices of secretary and treasurer and manager or superintendent were neldheldneid respect-

I1 wm H 1 ively by erriowrrio A jones and john koylekopicokoyico I 62

acting in accordance with these demands the Commisscommissioniori notified the officials of the koyle company that such a complaint had been 4 received and stated that a hearing would be held at their convenience by february 18I18 1924 nothing had been heard from the leaders of the dream mine so the commission again addressed itself to the matter and informed the directors of the company that stanley bonnet 1 was being sent to the koyle property to investigate the affair in accordance 5 with the complaint of june 19 19231.92319230 pursuant to the instructions of the commission bonnett examined the stock and mining ialmsbalmsclaims of the

company he reported that of the 300300000ooo000 authorized shares of capital

stockdstock6stock there were 101567 unissued treasury securities and 1981.98198424424424.424

shares outstanding of this latter figure 2424552552552.552 shares had been issued to contractors for work completed and were the only listedlisted issues from 7 1914igi191 to january 192419240 it was apparent that the company was badly in need of funds and therefore had petitioned for the right tozo sellseliseiiseil treastreasurylirytirylizy stock in october 1924 verbal charges were tiledfiled against the koyle mining company which prompted the commission to order a complete audit of the corporations records accordingly Aae E price was formally authorized to perform the examination although carlston had been notified of the intended audit price was repeatedly unabunablete to0 o locatelocale hlhmm and

4 letter from heber Cco hicks to the koyle mining company july 19 1923 located in the files of the securities commissioncommlssiono

51bid53md0 brearybruaryfebruary 18 1924 0 6koylekoyle articles amendment nonoo ilitelleile110 see also chapter IT ppo 22220 7bonnett7bonnett reportreportereporto 63 0 was finally called back to salt lake citycityocilyo 8 because the company refused to furnish a proper engineers report or to allow a complete investigation of their books the application forfoxyox the right to sell stock was officially denied on may 23 1925-19250 9 throughout 1926 the securities commission was deluged with ex- pressionspressions of discontent from stockholders in the koyle enterprise to heber C hicks director of the commission it appeared that dream mine stock was being sold to innocent and ggullible people through improper methods he therefore recommended that the commission force a complete audit of the compcompanycompanascompanysanys stock records and accounts to determine the truth- 10 fulness of these complaincomplaintscomplaintsotso before any definite action was taken on this proposal however the attention of the commission was directed to a great deal of excitement at the koyle workings caused by the announcement of a rich platinum strike due to the questionable integrity of some koyle mining Comcompanyoomparr officials and because of the extraordinary significance of sucisudisuchsueheuch a discovery an immediate investigation of the platinum claims was ororderedorderedoordederedredo thomas varley a mining engineer was employed by the comrocommissionisslerisslor to examine the property and make a full report relative to the value of any ore 8 hicks report december 17 1926 the reluctance of carlston to have the records of the company examined is explained by a report of J 0 christensen in 1932 wherein he states that he examined them at the home of carlston and found that they were very disorderly and inincompleeopletepieteimpleteompleteom christensen report ppo 14

91 bidido may 22 1925 see also stewert report decdeco 15 1932 10 ibid december IT17 1926 1 spanish fork press febfebo 28 19281928019283 ppo I1lo10 see also chapter 11 appp 293029 30 64 12 found therein pursuant to his instructions and accompanied by arthur L crawford assistant microscopist of the department of mining and metallurgical research university of utah varley made an extensive investigation of the interior of the mine and took eight representative samples from the areas where platinum was reportedly discovered at the research laboratories of the university of utah the ore was carefully prepared for assaying and analytical determination one set of the samples was sent to the union assay offofficeleeiceiee in salt lake city and another to the united states bureau of mines rare and precious metals station at reno nevada

A third set was given to J W warf the company assayer who reported thetche original discovery and a fourth was taken by crawford who examined it microscopically in each instance with the exception of warf the resultant analysis indicated no trace of platinum or silver and but a slight inconsistent occurrence of gold at the time varley concluded his investigation and submitted his report warf was still unsuccessfully trying to analyze the samples provided him an inquiry revealed that he was attempting his assay with insufficient and improper equipment in the basement of his home when taken to the research department of the united states bureau of mines and questioned as to his methods of determination it became apparent to all present that he could very easily have been mistaken in his original analysis this conclusion was strengthened by reason of the fact that no platinum was discovered in any of the samples

12 letter from heber C hicks to john H koyle march 22 1929 located in the files of the securities commission 65 assayed by the abovementionedabove mentioned laboratorieslaboratorieso 13 As a result of this investigation and the numerous transactions involving a remarkable rise in the price of koyle mining company stockstocky the commission referred the case to the office of the district attorney with the recommendation that a grand jury investigation be undertaken after due examination of the evidence presented to him by the commission district attorney ray vancott determined that the facts of the case and 14 the expenses involved would not warrant such actionacfcione ih on february 2 1932 as a result of persistent rumors having reached the office of the securities commission to the effect that so called personal stock was being sold to numerous individuals and paid as salary to workers scott Ppo stewart commission director issued letters of warning to koyle and other leading proponents of the dineminemilne which clearly 15 defined the law against the fraudulent and illegal sale of stock in

response to this inferred charge of fraud william Aao jones serseosecretarydetaryretary of

131nvestigationinvestigation of the reported platinum occurrence in the koyle mining companascompanysCompanys property near salemsalerno utah more definitely known as the dream mine by thomas varley mining and metallurgical engineer representing the utah state securities commission and arthur L crawford assistant microscopist representing the department of mining and meta- lurgllurgicalical research university of utah may 16 1929 located irin the files of the securities commission 4 also christensen report po 220 14 aletter1letter14letterLetter from heber Cco hicks to the honeonhono ray vancott district attorney june 5 1929 located in the files of the securities commission see also stewart reportreportpoppo 1lo10 15 15lettersletters from scott P Stewarstevartstewartstewarttfc director of the utah stafstatstafestatec securities commission to officials of the koyle mining company february 2 1932 located in the files of the securities commission during the summer of 1931 koyle assured theth commission that neither treasury nor personal stock was being sold for the PArpurposepose of developing the propertyproperpropertyotyo 66

the company and his attorney martin Mmo larson called at the office of the securities commission and assured the director that all stostockstochk trans fers since 1927 were legitimate and that their validity would be verified 16 in a report to be presented to the commission in the near futurefuturesfutureo however in a letter to stewart dated march 11 1932 jones ignored his promise of a brief explaining the purported irregularities and claimed as koyle had done earlier that neither the company nor any of its agents were soliciting sales or purchases of securities either from the treasury of the company or the stock of individualindividualsindividualsoso this he wrote was and had been the policy of the company since 192719270 solicitationsSoli citations or sales for the development of company property were no exception 17 plainly irked at the inconsistency of jonesjonest statements and the obvious indifference of the company officials to his verbal and written appeals for a clarifying explanation of the continued reports of fraudulent stock transactions stewart informed koyle jones their attorney and other leading company officials that a formal hearing woulawould be held friday august 12 1932 at 1000 amanuabuabn in the office of 45hehe securities CommissicommissioncommissioueoUeoneono each was requested to come personally or be represented by 18i P someone conversant with the facts due to an unforeseen shshedaleshenaleshedulesheduleduieeduieedaLe conflict attorney martin M larson could not be present on august 12 so the date was changed to the following friday august 19thlathol9tho

16 letter from scott Ppo stewart to Williawilliamjn Aao jones march 23 1932 located in the files of the securities commissionCommiss lonoiono 17 17letterletter from william aaA jones to sottscott Ppo stewart march 11 1932 located in the files of the securities commissioncommissionscommissionoCommiss ionolono 18i pi letter from scott Ppo stewart to officials of ttethe Kkoylegoylegoyieyieyley le mining co august 2 1932 located in the filesflies of the securities cormcommissionscommissionoCommisscissionnissioniono 67 in addition to the members of the commission the hearing was attended by larson and jones representing the company and two stock-

holdersrholders9holders 9 herman mueller and paul frankhauser the lat-iatterlatlerlatterlatlerlerter two along with university of utah geologist dr fredrick Jjo pack were present by special request of the commission

A leading question at the outset of the hearing concerned the source of all funds being utilized to build and equip the large flotation mill at the koyle property and the source of funds used in furthering the general mining operation this in light of the fact that the company had no permit to sell stockstocko the query was first directed to jones but he refused to answer stating that larson as the company attorney was there to do the explaining after persistent questioning by stewart and others of the commission larson explained that koyle was responsible for all operations including the payment of his fees theme company he said had nothing to do with it he qualified this by stating that in 1927 an arrangement had been made between the company and koyle wherein the latter contracted to dig a tunnel some 11500500500.500 feet in

ooo1000 length and make all necessary improvements in return for 50 0 000 shares of company securities which would become his personal stockstocko such an agreement larson asserted was entirely legallegato when asked if this stock had been sold to carry on the several operations referred tobo jones answered that he knew nothing of koylesboyles activities j except that the tunnel was being dug and improvements were being made as per the agreeragreementilentrient during the course of the hearing jones admitted that the dream mine was not being operated along a scientifically soundsoundoboundo geological pattern but by the visionary experiences of koyle in connectconnecconnectiontion with 68 this the secretary was asked if koyle had actually seen the ore if his claims were based on nothing more than dreamland fantasies heilelie answered that koyle had actually viewed the values with his natural eyes but for anyone else they were not perceivable when pressed by the asser tion that the only justifiable purpose in the continued existence of the enterprise was its spiritual connotation jones shouted vee have ore at the binedinemine nine samples taken of the deposit show values from boo4004004.00 to 4400 or 45400450000 per ton in gold furthermore we purpose to bring out the resources of our mine for the good of the people in the country despite all opposition at the conclusion of the hearing a complaint was heard from herman mueller who testified that stock hadbad been sold to him in 1922 with the promise that it would pay dividends in one year he was also told that hebe would havebave to hurryhurryburry to get in or it would be too late mueller further complained that no stockholders meeting had been held for ten yearbyears his several protests to the company were passed over with the comment that koyle could do anything he pleased even choose the directors itif he wished what vaswas done at the mine he was informed was absolutely xoylelskeykoyieblebaeb business and therefore stockholder meetings were not essential jones explained that an additional reason for the absence of yearly meetings vabwabwaswa the antagonistic attitude of certain church authorities who caused the last meeting to end in such turmoil that koyle decided it was bestbeatbeet not to agitate the peoplepeopleopeopled after all he concluded since they had located the ore and were ready to produce it of what value would meetings be 69telieltep the hearing ended with the company officials obligating themseivthemselveses to produce the alleged contract between koyle and the organization as well as their records which were to be carefully auditedauditedoauditedo the carmicormicommissionissionassion in the meantime was to retain a qualified geologist who could carefully examine the koyle operation and scientifically appraise its mineralogical IQ possibilitiespossibilitieso 19 accordingly on august 30 1932 Jjo 000oo christensen was employed by the commission to make an examination of the records of the koyle min 20 ing company and conduct such research as became essential to the mattermattero A letter had previously been sent to the company secretary stating that a representative of the commission voulawould immediately contact him expecting to have access to the necessary recordrecordsrecordsoso on the day following his appointment after familiarizing himself with the available history of the company christensen contacted jones and requested permission to proceed with the assigned auditarditoaudito his request was refused by the secretary who claimed that the examination as agreed upon was to take place alat the discretion

of the company thereupon september 5 vaswasas set as a compromise date for the inspectioninspectinspectlouolouo on this day and again on september 6 access to the company books was denied the investigatorinvestigatoroinvestigatory on september 8 christensen

visited martin M larson hoping the attorney would use his influence in making the desired records available instead of receiving helpheiphelpochelpo however

19 salt lake telegram august 19 1932 ppo biblB il thetjsaltsaitsalt lake tribune august 19 19322932293219322.932 ppo 8 deseret news augastaugust 20 1932 ppo blobioB 1lo

20 letter from scott Ppo stewart to Jjo 000oo christensen augastaugust 30 1932 locatediocated in the files of the security commissioncommisslonoCommiss lono 70 he found the attorney openly hostile toward the commission this agency of government he claimed had heaped undue criticism and adverse publicity upon the koyle enterprise the antagonism of martin and the other officials of the company was such that a demand for the surrender of all records on september 12 and again on september 13 and 14 was completely ignored during the period of his unsuccessful investigationinvestigations from august 30 to september 13 christensen interviewed numerous individuals injn an attempt to better understand the affairs of the koyle undertaking and discover if he coulbocouldocould legal grounds for an aggressive prosecution of the company one such conference was had with peter C caribCarlscarlstontono the former manager and avid promoter of the dream mine he discovered during his visit that carlston had in his possession all of the company records covering the period of his management they were he observed very rudimentary and incomplete revealing only that the commissions received by some salesmen and agents for the disposing of stock were far 21 in excess of what the law allowed on october 15 1932 after briefly discussing with koyle the possibility of setting a definite date for an official study of the interior of the mine and after making a detailed inspection of the new flotation mill stewart visited the local offices of both the county and the district attorney and suggested that a grand jury investigation be considered as a means of controlling the koyle affair As with an earlier request for such an investigation the question of expense made the

21 christensen report appp 161 6 71 undertaking appear doubtfuldoubtfulo22 throughout november and december stewart and christensen earn- estly continued their efforts to secure evidence ilchwhich would justifiably bring the mine officials to trial numerous stockholders verewere contacted and questioned concerning the time of and circumstances under which they purchased dream mine securitiessecurisecuritiesotieso by december 9 they were reasonably

sure that a sale of some 8181500500500.500 shares had occurred between march 8 1924392 when a certified audit indicated teltettadt1dmel A if nininamininynumberiber of shares outstanding was 19819842424 and august 19 1932 when jones and larson testified that 280280000000ooo shares had been issued 0 this was an excesscesis of over 3131000000ooo000.000 above the

50000 granted koyle in 1927 0 the evidence fartherfurther indicated that regularly employed salesmen were currently selling the stock with no indication that the supply was limitedlimilimitedslimitedotedo it appeared possible that the 2000020 ooo000 shares of the total issue of 300000 romaremainingining unsold in august had been 23 largely disposed ofofooto

on december loylog101.0iolo Stewarstevartstewartfc christensen and assistant salt lake

oo county attorney lorin 000 thomas 5 met in spanish fork with a prominent group of local businessmen to go over the koyle problemprobienioprobienioblenio after a detailed discussion of the matter the host delegation proposed that any action against the mine be postponed first until an adequate investigation of the exact underground conditions of the mine could be made and second

22 stewart report december 1515. 1932 p 2 00oo 231bidobidosibidos december 9 19321.93219320 see alsoaisoalso koyle articles amendment nonoo II1114 1521921 72 inasmuch as the project had been permitted to develop for thirty eight years unmolested it seemed ill advised they felt to interrupt it now just when it bore promise of fruition A six month stay of intinterferinterfereerfer ence with the project was asked on these grounds the commission representatives countered this proposal by reasoning that an investigation of the workings was already a part of their program and if commercial ore were actuallyaotually present prosecution of the case would not alter thatteat fact nor would it retard the development of the minemineo A further observation pointed out that a six month stay would give the commission the appearance of being remiss of its duty to investors by falling to pro- tect them it was finally agreed that diligent action should be continued and an authoritative investigation of the mine made within two 24 weeks

on december 23023 1932 dr fredrick J pack was enlisted by the securities commission to make a thorough and conclusive examination of the relief mine after careful samplingsamplings which was directed and observed by koyle and his chief assayer buck grant the samples were taken to the metallurgical laboratory of the univeiuniveruniversitysitygity of utah and prepared for examination by two prominent assaying firms the resultant analysis of all eight samples by both firms indicated values of no more than twenty cents per ton in gold and no measurable amount of silver pack concluded his report by stating that the koyle property offered no possible encouragement for the future he condemned the enterprise on thebasisthe basis of its geological and commercial features he stated that seldom if ever had

24 stewart report december 12 1932 p 2 73 25 he seen a mining prospect so lacking in mineralizationminerallzationo following packs report the state securities commission ordered director scott P stewart to file action with the county attorney charg- ing the koyle mining company management with selling securities without 26 permission in accordance with this directive stewart met with the county

attorney who took the case under advisementadviseadvisementsadvisementomento he then authorized Aao ezra gull commission secretary to audit the books and records of the koyle corporation after many unsuccessful attempts to procure the desired doc zumentsuments gull gave up and reported his failure to the missionecommissioncommissionecommissionedCom the habitual refusal of the company officers to submit to the demands of the state prompted the members of the commission to recommend that mandamus proceedings be resorted to accordingly a registered letter was sent to the officials of the koyle mining company demanding that their records be surrendered at the commission office on or before february 7 293319330 any failure to comply was to be followed by a court order forcing their surrender when by february 10 nothing had been heard from the koyle people the commission formally requested that the attorney general inter 27 cede and initiate the necessary mandamus proceedings

25report25report by drdredro fredrick Jjo pack to the utah state securities commission january 13 93319331 located in the files of the securities commission see also appendix VIvio the analyses performed under pakspackspahs dl rection were from ore deposits which some were claiming would run well over 1000 per tontonetono see chapter II11 0 ppo 29 26 deseret news january 20 1933 P I11 27 27letterletter from scott P sewartstewart to the honorable joseph chez attorney general for the state of utah february loio101.0dlodioJLO 1933 0 also letter from scott P stewart to the officers of the koyle mining company february I1I1 1933 located in the files of the securities commission 74

on 2 march 11 19331933.193391933.9 koyle and joijorjonesieshegbeg were served with writs commanding them to appear before commissioner miltonmlltonmi lonion H welling and the state securities commission in room 121 of the state capiolCapitocapiolacapito11 b1aldingBuilbuildingsbuildingodingo

the hearing was setgetsr t for march 24 19331931 at io1010202.0 amaomoagomo the defendants were further charged with producing at the hearing all books records stock books stock certificate books and all dordocdocumentsimentsimenes of the koylekoy ie mining companyjcompany also all books and records showing cash receipts and disburse ments during the four year period 292919332929 1933 and all books accounts and records showing the assets and liabililiabilitiesties of t-thehe company as well as aallaliail11 accounts of labor over the same period

at the appointed time and place the hearing vaskaswas held to the dismay of the state officials however their apparently well prepared case completely lostscostslosfcs its momentum when first all the desired records and other subpoenaed information were not made avalavailablelablelabie 0 and second several key witnesses changed their testestimoniestirnonies and refused to speak out against koyle and the mine the resultresuitresiilt was that several years cfof careful

28 subpoena issued by the utah state securities coircorrcorncommissionmission in the case of milton H welling as Coffimissionercommissioner vs john Hho koyle and william Aao jones as president and secretary respectively of the koyle mining company j february 28 1933 located in the files of the securities commission the writ was issued under the authority granted by section kX sessions laws 1925 chapter 87 as amended by chapter 79 j laws of utah 1929 relating to preventionpreventaonpreventAon of fraud in sales of securities the law reads iain partpartt the commission is hereby authorized to issue subpoenas compelling the attention of witnesses and the production of books and recordsprecordrecordssP to administeradjnjin ister oaths and to0 o do other such things as may be necessary in investigation of matters properly coming before it 75 research and preparation were valueless in the face of this tarnbarnturn of events which caused the dismissal of the hearing due to an obvious lack of evi 29 dence in spite of what would appear to be a sound victory for koyle and his followers and a resounding defeat for the securities commission stewart continued his diligent search for facts and testimony which would bring the renegade mining company to heelheelodeelo during the remacemaremainderAnder of 1933 and until he was replaced as director of the Commiscommissionslonsion lnin 9341934 stewart pursued this task throughout this period numerous testimonies were taken from a longlongiong list of stockholders but none of them added signifisignify 30 cantly to what was already known early in 1935 the federal securities and exchange commission conducted a brief investigation into the koyle problem A rather long list of stockholders was secured and questionnaires were mailed to eahbah individual on the listlisto the extremely partisan response to the circular plus the conclusive lack of available evidence pointing to fraud and other irregularities soon discouraged the federal representatives and 31 the investigation was dropped according to the records which are available the koyle mine was not brought to the attention of the securities commission again until november 19461.94619460 at this time the question of koyleboyleskoylesIs right to utilize

29 29deseret news 24 B C deseret march 1933 P blo1lo also pierce opeopo citoit 51 po p P 26 and taylor op citoit Rp 106106log 0 30 stewart report april 1933 and 19341930.1934 31 feafitefifefeyteypitefe9 0opo cito po0 2 also piercepieree 22opo citycitoeltyeity ppo 2626.260 76

the stock allowed him in 1921927 vaswasas legally decided attorney Gerigerlgeneraleral grover aoA giles in answer to a question directed to him by lawrence taylor director of the state securities commission stated that the law does not prohibit the sale of personal stock either by the owner or by a duly quailyqualifiedled agent acting in his behalfbehalfe he also wrote that the funds received from such a sale could legitimately be used to improve andor further a given mining operationoperationsoperationooperationo 32 As far as can be determined the states case rests on this ver- dict by the attorney general nevertheless because of the unprofessional manner of operation and the unsound purpose of the venturedventurepventuventurereP the commission has never granted the company the right to sell treasury storkstock 33

summary it seems clear from the evidence presented in this phase of the linetsminetsmine history that there have been some irregularities in the stock transactions of the companiocompanycompanyocompanyeanyo whether they were deliberate violations of the law a product of incredible ignorance or simsimplyply a means of survival which was necessarily turned to when all legallegallegai1egalbegal avenues became unattain- able was not and apparently cannot be determinedetermineddeterminedede the extent to which koyle was involved in these questionable manipulations if stock Is also not clear that he was aware of the deplorable condition of his compcompanycompanascompanysanys books and the frustrating marinermanner in which they were never available for

322 letter from grover Aao gilesgilesegilesy attorney general of thetche state of utah to lawrence taylor director of the state securities commission november 7 1946 see appendix vilVIIdiioviio 331nterviewinterview with sterling harding director of the utah state securities commission february 6 iggi196119610 77 proper audit can hardly be disputedisputeddisputedodo one wonders just what the compa4ycomparycompany had to hide by being deliberately evasiveevasiveo it Is also fairly safe to assume that had some of the discontented stockholders been willing to testify in court a number of the agents for the company might well have been indicted for fraud both for selling securities without a legal per mit and fforor the manner in which they sold them Jjo 000oo christensen special investigator for the commission expressed to some degree this same con dictionviction when he said

0 it is well nigh impossible to find a stockholder who will complain or support the commission in its attempt to force compliance with the law we have established to our own satisfaction which is entirely different of obtaining ample concrete evidence to bring about a conviction in court that the koyle officials are constantly violating the law by selling without permit or sanction of the commission mining stock part of the proceeds4ofproceeds of which are directly employed in developing the enterprise3enterpriseenterprises 3

343 christensen report ppo 66cac chapperCHAPTER V

THE MISSION OF JOHN Hho KOYLE IN THE LIGHT OF 1 MORMON FOLKfolklorelfolklore1FOLKLOREloreiLOREl

when in 1894 and again in 1913191.31913y john H koyle specifically de claredeclared2 that he had been visited by kindly appearing whitebeardedwhite bearded grey clothed elderly men he was very much in harmony with some aspects of the traditional folklore of his culture in localities of utah and neighboring states where the latter day saint faith is well established one frequently hears accounts of the supernatural appearance and disappearance of just such remarkable individuals who are said to deliver messages of intense spiritual or personal importance give blessings in exchange for food and shelter direct lost people to safety and perform numerous other services these strange persons are thought to be either the prophet mor- onionic the last of a series of proclaimed prophets who lived in ancient america or one or more of the three nephitesNephites so called disciples of christ who it is said also lived out their days of mortalitymortalityin in

ifolklorefolklore is a science of the commonplacecommonplacescommonplaceo itJ may be detidefidefineddeyl aledrled as the beliefs superstitions tales legends magic rites rituals and institutions as generally recognized among homogenous groupsgroupso the tolklolktoikfolk lorist takes the view that what is most important is not truth as such 1 batbut mans view of truth not fact but myth myth is defined as mans view of realityrealireallreailrealityotyo the folklorist strives to intelligently understand mansmants common place views of reality just as a botanist through the assembling and classifying of plants strives to understand theiutheniochenio hector lee the three nephitenephitesNephites albuquerque univulivounivo of new mexico press 1949199 p 12 oyie2koyleoyle stated that he enjoyed the presence of immortal beings on several occasions but only after these two experiences did he clearlyelearly identify or describe his visitorsovlsivisitorsotonso visitors 78 79 ancient america to the time they were caughcaughtfc up and appointed special emissaries of the savior to go among all people as witnesses of the truth 3 one of the earliest post book of mormon references to this legend is recorded by washington irving in his book the life and voyages 0of 4 christopher columbuscolumbusoColumbuso irving states that a member of a shore party sent by columbus to obtain fresh food and water strayed frontronfromtrom his companions and to his great surprise discovered a sizable group of indians attentively listening to the words of three elderly men dressed inln flow- ing white robesrobeso noting his presence the three advanced toward the sailor who fled in fear supposing that he and his companioncompanionss were about to be attacked 5

A further recorded incident occurred in 182318230 in september of that year joseph smithsmithpsmithy the founder of mormonism confessed to a series of visits from a resurrected personage whom he described as the ancient 6 prophet moronimoronic smith professed to further visitations from this same being until the year 1829 at which time he apparently completed the sacred record entrusted to him and published it in the folfoifollowingloving year as the book of morminomormonmormono

see appendix VIII for the basis of this legend in mormon folklore 4washingtinwashlngtin irving the life and vodgesvoygesvoyages of christopher colimbus new york james Bbo millar co 2184 p 285 0

5eaeE Ddo partridge a former professor of brigham young university provo utah stated that this alleged report recorded by irving left little doubt as to the authenticity of the book of mormonmonnonemonnono itjt did not he said take much imagination to see the disciplesidisciples awaiting an opportunity to make themselves knownknowno E D partridge the three nephitesNephites did one of columbus sailors see them the I1improvementement era 12 june 1909D apppapoppo 6216246216240621 6246240 athe6the the pearl of great price joseph smith 2 9.9 PPapoppo 52565256052 56560 8080

during this same period several of smithsmiths s associates allegedly experienced the presence of a similar charactercharacterocharaccharacteryterobero one of them david whitmer stated that one night in june 1828 an unknown benefactor plowed some seven acres of his land and shortly thereafter three strangers were seen expertly liming one of his fieldsfieldsafieldso he also found that he was able to harrow in a few hours time a plot of ground that normally would have taken three daysdacsodayso greatly aided by these events whitmer was able to make a previously planned journey to harmony pennpenno having been called there by the beleagured joseph smith whose work of translation was being continually disrupted by unruly mobsdobsomobso while in the process of transporting the prophet his wife and his scribe from harmony to the whitmer home in fayette new york david reported thatthatt a nice looking old man suddenly appeared to the groupgroppogroupo after greeting them and declining an invitation to ride in their wagon he stated that 7 he was on his way to cumorahcumorahoCumoraho he then disappeared and was not seen again during the journjourneyeyo in discussing the subject many years later whitmer stated

bep 1 with assurance that the individual he had seen along the road bebetween11veenween harmony and fayette was moroni and that he had also appeared to his mother shortly thereafterthereaftero it appears that mrsarsomrso whitmer was greatly burdeburdenedbyburdenednedbyby the continued and unaccustomed presence of smith and his party in her homehomco shortly before the translation was finished 0 she began giving vent to her feelingfeelingsfeelingsoso just when it appeared thathat the

7 7cumorahcumorah is the name given a hillmii near Palmypalmyraraoray new york wherein joseph smith is saidsald to have found the gold plates having been previously directed there by this same moronimoronio 81

problem would get out of hand she reported that a man who introduced himself as moroni appeared to her as she went to milk the colsocowscowso on this occasion he revealed to her the golden plates which smith and 8 his scribe had presumably been working ononeono during june 1829 three men oliver cowdery martin harris and david whitmer were visited by a being whom they identified as moroni among other things they were shown the special plates which Q the prophet had been translating 9 in spite of the several incidents just described and irrespec-lrrespe tive of the fact that the book of mormon tells of the continued existence in the flesh of the three nephitesNephites 11 bonafide claims which suggest the known existence of these ancient personages numbered only six by 185518550 after this date however the number increased until by 1940 at least 150 different accounts had been isolated by several interested folk 10 loristslorisfloriststs it is interesting to note that with the increased number of occurrences the identify of the person or persons supposedly seen is given as one or more the three nephitesNephites rather than the record keeper

nprestonQ 8prestonpreston nibley witnesses of the book of mormon salt lake city stevens & wallis inc 1946 appp 707170 71 also brighambrighajrthoH roberts cocomprehensivemprehmpretensivecensive history of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints I1 salt lake citycitylcetyl deseret book co 1931 apppapoppo 1261271261277126 1271277

9robertsQ erobertsroberts 0opP cit p apppapoppo 137147137 147

10 leeee opobo080opo citpp831o31 some historians who have considered the subject feel that thesecitpp8early claims to personal visitations were a direct carryovercarry over from the european heritage of the individuals involvedjnvolvedo these assertions they say directly parallel the wandering jewje joseph of arimatheaaramathea and john the beloved stories which were prominent in european folklore during this period 82

moroni students of this phase of mormon history feel that the change of reference was directly due to the first public discourse on the subject delivered in 1855 by orson prattpratto on april 7 of that year pratt called the attention of the church membership to the possibility of just

such appearances by stating 0 houhovhow pleasing houhow glorious it would be could we see those three old nephitesNephites whose prayers have as- cended up for something like 1800 years in behalf of the children of men in the last days 1 10 do you suppose that these three nephitesNephites have any knowledge of what is going on in this land they know all about it they are filled with the spirit of prophecy it he contcontinuedirtuedaued by saying that they were not far distant and would begin to appear as soon as the time was right with this talk by pratt and the apparently open sanction of the church leadership it was not long until the legend became deeply en- trenched in the lives of most latter day saints although the number of asserted appearances has not been accurately determined countless versions of each were soon being related from one end of the great basin to the otherothero an account typical of those told through mormondom was related by mrsarsomrso mary bullard one of the early utah pioneerspioneersopioneploneerso her story goes as follows I1 was born in novunaovu 184218420 came to utah 1848 with nynry parence I1 was baptibaptisedbaptizedsed in city crick salt lake city that ran down threw the valey I1 was married when quite young to ezra nelson bullardbuibut lardo have had a large family of 15 childrenchilehllehlichildrenschildrenodreno in 1867 I1 was very sick

11 ibidibidoebido p 30300 83

to allaliailailali human aperience there was no shaforshoforsho for me to get veilveliwellvello we were poor could not beepceep hired help my relirelitivesrelativestives had quite a bit of sicknesssicknessoSicknesso could not be with me all the time my husband was out in the lot watering garden I11 was alone and one of the old nefitesneofites visitedviseted me came up to the bed and took hold of my hand and said to me my dear sister you are very sick you think you are going to dy and so does all your relatives and nabershabers I1 said yesyeso then he shuck his head and said no no the lord has a grate work for you to do you will live and rais a large family you shall have power over the eavie one to save the lives of your children and many of the saints livesilveslivesolivedo he told me I1 was to ambisousambisous and venwenwenteywenfceybenteywenfreytey and my strength and if I1 would be carefullcarecarefullyfull care of my self I11 could live to be a hundred years old or more gest as my hart desireddesiredodesiredo why he said I1 would not lay a bed like this mary any longer if you onley had faith a nut why you could get up rite now and dress yourselfyourselfoyourselfo but not to go to vorkworkvorkevorkoworke set up a while then lay down and then get up again be earful take care of your self and you soon be well and stout he held my hand all the time he was talking to me he then letleiietIGI go of my hand and took out of his vest pocket a little book and vent tottofcotco writing something looked up to me and said dear sister how long have you been in the valey of the mountainsmountainsomountainshMountainseinso I1 said 22 years this fall I1 believe he shuck his head and said no no 23 years this fall my eyes was quite weak I1 shut them and when I1 opened them he was gon I1 got rite up and hunted my close and dressed when my husban came in I1 was up setingketing injn a chair he said why who been her to help couoyouyouo no body I1 saidsaldsal do ive gest mad up my mind to get well and I1 am agoing totoo I1 hant a going to lay in bed any longer only when I1 want to restresto I1 did not tell no body I1 thought they would try to make me believe id been a dreaming I1 new I1 had not the third day I1 went a crost the block to mvmy fathers and the questions he ask me was in my mind nite and day untill I1 ask my father how long we been in the mountains and he said I1 dont no 22 or 23 years well I1 said I1 want to no he was reading a bible he bot from emigrants he bot the fall we came to utah he wrote his name in itib and dated it he looke and said 23 years this fallrailralifallofalio he then turned to me and said nonovnowv mary I1 want you to tell me what has brot this grate change in you I1 no it is some over ruling power you cant fool me so I1 then told him helielleile told me it was one of the old nefnernefitesneofitesites that he had visited him once when he was sick told me gest how he was dressed and he was the same I1 soon was caled to go among the sick and found that was the work the lord had for me to dodoo I1 worked among the sick for about 30 years was the means of helping many soles in the world ive had many pat on the sholder and say god bless you are laing up tretresurestreasuressures in heaven you save my life I1 can say that the lord did bless me in my labors I1 helped many poor people and would take no pay as I1 thought they needed tlethe pay worse than I1 did 84

I1 can say the lord blessed me brately in my laborslasorsolaborsolaborg I13 never new what it was to be at home with my family a week at onceanceoonceo I1 am now in my 94 year and am the mother of 15 children and I1 have bout 90 grand children and one hundred and 25 grate grand children and 35 grate grate grand children and 7 of thehe 12 6 generationgeneral ionolono 0 0

A further account which to the knowledge of the writer has never been made public was experienced by an ardently devoted member of the latter day saint churchcharchochurcho unlike the other nephite stories this account is directly related to the dream mine affairaffairsaffairo on the day following armistice day november 12 1918 this person had retired to a previously designed spot near the top of ensign peak overlooking salt lake vallebovalleyvaileyvalleyo here as he had often done in the past he kneeled in prayer and in the spirit of the occasion thanked god for the resolving of the great conflict just concludeconcludedconcludedodo following an indefinite period of prayer and meditation he 10 turned from his hallowed sanctuary13 and began making his way back to to his means of conveyance located some distance down the hillhillo As he did so he observed a man dressed in a long black coat rapidly ascending the steep incline in his direction he soon noted that in spiespite of the grade and distance the man did not stop to rest even though helielleile did not appear to be youneyoungyounesyoungsyoungo with about thirty feet still separating them he greeted the stranger and then for some reason for whichihwhihh he could

12 ebidoibidibido p 19190igo

13 this man had always felt that this spot was sacredsacrede he con rideredsidered his reverence justified when he later learned that the first endowment and sealing sessions were performed there when the church originally moved west and before the endowment house was completedeompjefcede 85

not account he addressed him saying you must have come up here for the same reason that I1 did after assenting to this the stranger began relating the history of the valley which lay before themtheniochenio he discussed brigham young in a very familiar manner and spoke of the great mineral wealth in the surrounding hills indicating that one day great quantities of gold would be brought forthforth and placed at the disposal of the churchcharchochurcho As he continued at lengthlengthy his listener became restless and excusing himself continued his way down the mountainmountainemountainomountaino having gone but a few rods however he turned to observe the progress of the intrud- er to his amazement he saw no oneoneo studying the terrain carefully he observed that there was no available cover into which a person could have disappeared in so short a timetimeo finding after a nimbernumber of days that it was impossible to forget the incident he made it a matter of prayer and eventually found satisfaction in the decision that he had enjoyed the rare experience of seeing and talking with onene of the three Nepnephltesnephiteshites many years later following numerous requests on theth part of a close friend he traveled to spanish fork and proceeded to exemineexamine the koyle mine and the validity of the claims set forth by its founder although he had never met koyle he had over the years extended to the company several thousand dollars worth of supplies on credit this he had done with no thought of personal gain or interest but as an act of friendship extended to several associates who were a part of the koyle venturevent lire after spending a day on the hill viewing the internal and external evidences he sought out the prophet of the dream mine and while riding 86 to the home of the latter he listened to his storysteryostoryo of the many things he hearerheard the one which astounded him most and which excited his interest in the project of the dreamer was the description given of one of the two men who reportedly appeared to koyle in 1914 it was exactly that 14 of the man he had seen many years before atop ensign peak

summary it is not the intent of this chapter to draw any firm conclusions concerning the supernatural experiences referred to hereinhereinohereinto the material is set forth in order to show that in some respects the claims made by koyle tend to stamp him as a definite although highly usualonusualunusualon product of his timetimeo it also indicates that the present claims of the koyle people to the appearance and continued association of one whom 15 they consider to be a nephite are not completely abortive in the light of traditional mormon folkloretolkifolklfolklorcooreoorco A recent story of a hitchhiking nephite if which circulated and was believed by many throughout the church is a further evidence of this same phenomenonphenomenono As previously stated one of the reasons why this legend continues is because it has existed with the sanction of the church authorities apparently for the practical purpose of establishing faith in the gospelgospelsgospelo A further reason for its continuance lies in the fact t-hat

14 personal interview with william F perschon august 25 1961 see also chapter I1111 I apppapoppo 181918 19 perschon was formerly a bishop of a salt lake ward and president of the swiss austrian mission of the lalaftlatterft ter day saint churchcharchochurcho 15 brooksby interview 16 roberts 9opP a citdpciteitelt 61949561.949561946sl94 95 73567356o73560 87 it enables a church member to closely identify himself with the function- ing of his religion in a manner that tends to draw attention to hidhimhidohimo it might be suggested therefore that predisposition and state of mind have 17 a considerable influence on the nephite oriesestoriesstoriesest such a conclusion does not infer that the reported experiences are falsifications or thab the people involved are not sinceresinsincereocereecereo the fact is however that there are times when people believe what they want tobo believe and see what they want to see completely divorcing themselves from realityrealireallreailrealityotyo suehsuch an assumption is well illustrated in the following story on one occasion an elder who had just returned from his mission accompanied his sister to a testimony meeting to bless her newbornnew born child and give it a name when the meeting was opened for testimonies who should get up but the elders uncle now the elder knew his visiting uncle lew for what he really was an imposterimpostor and hypocrithypocritehypocrit of the worst typetyscotypco on more than one occasion he had seen his own mother eject this uncle from her home because of his wild ravings about religion which were in such disharmony with his dissolute personal life and shady business practicpracticespracticesoeso both the elder and his sister grew more and more embarrassed as the sermon of uncle lew expanded in an ever enlarging cres- cendo which finally reached the prophetic vein their only thought of comfort was that this reprobate unclelincie was not of the community or at least that he was not known as their uncle radhadrao their own feelings not been conditioned by their previous knowledge of the speaker they might have noticed that the aud- ience was held in rapt attentionattentionsattentionoattent ionolono As it was they breathed a sigh of relief when uncle lew stopped spealingspeaking and they cast sidelong glances at those near them to see if anyone had per- ceived their embarrassment nearly a month passed the elders mother was entertaining everalreveralseveralcveral of the brethren and sisters of the ward and the elder and his sister were assisasgisassistingting with refreshments the conversation of the group drifted to the strstrangeranberangerangor who had given such an inspiring sermon at the last testimony meetingmeetingsmeetingomeetinbotingo his prophecies and admonitions were enumerated and his manner and appearance describedescribeddescribedede they conformed in every respect to those whichi seem typical of the three nephite apostlesaposties and finally some said

17 0 po 18 lee 2op 0 lltalltci t p 88 si16fthe l6fvthee6tinghe t6etjng house and disappeared in the street and it no one has seen or heard of him since I1 after the guests had departed the elder spoke to his mother mom do you know who that nephite was why no28noo son who was it wellweliweilweiltwellawell1 he replied it was uncle lew one of the first resolves of an honest critic is to assume that he cannot scientifically view the emotional and religious concepts of an individual or group of individuals and therefrom derive a fair and accurate judgment the psychologist jamesjjamespjames concluded this when he pointed out that people instinctively recoil from seeing objects with which they are emotionally involved handled by the intellect as any other object is handled he emphasizes instead a study of the pathological aspects of the subject at the same time strenuously objecting to the over emphasis of medical materialism in explaining mystical experiencexperiencesexperiencesoeboeso medical materialism he explained finishes up saint paul by calling his vision on the road to damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex he being an epileptic it snuffs out saint teresa as an hysteric saint francis of assissiasslssidassissi as an hereditary degenerate george foxscoxs discontent with the shams of his age and his pining for spiritual veracity it treats as a symptom of a disordered colcoicolonono carlyles organ tones of misery it accounts for by a gastro- duodenal CasatarrahcatarrahcatarrahocatarrasoCatartarrahraheraho all such mental overovertenslonsovertensionstensions it says are when you come to the bottom of the matter mere affairs of diathesis auto intoxications most probably due to the perpervertedy5yartedarted action of various glands which physiology will yet discoverdiscoversdiscodiscoverovero whatever the direction of ones bias little disagreement should be found with the alleged statement by apostle janesjames E talmage who concluded the subject of the nephitesNephites by stating that the tendency on the part of some members of the church to attribute any unusual happening to 20 the three nephitesNephites make them thehe most overoveyoverworkedworked of aliallaliail individualsindividaalso lbQ austin E fife ftheathethe legend of the three nephitesNephites among the Morcormonsmormonsmons the journal of american folklore JLTIILIII january marmarchch 1940 17 billiam&illiamwliilamwilliam james the varitiesvarltiesparitiesVariVarl ties of religious experience new yorkyorks longman green and co 191907 ppo 990 As ry citedlnciteatfincited ln lee p 95 0o 20leelee opopo cito Ppo 33 CHAPTER VI

RELATED MINING VENTURES

although the koyle mine is undoubtedly the most famous dream mine in mormondom it is certainly not the only oneoneo workings of a like nature have been located at high creek and maple creek in cache valley northern utah still in evidence are the diggings undertaken following the dream of a mormon woman in tijuana valley southern californiacaliforniaocalifornianCaliforniao A number of utah communities have their local john koylesboyles who have wasted a lifetime at the site of some mine or buried treasure the location of 1 which was revealed in a dream typical of such is the story of an old man named peay who lived in provo utah it appears that while still young and before the turn of the century he had a dream wherein he was shown that at the time cortez entered mexico the nephitesNephites or their descendants carried their records and treasures north they supposedly made trail signs all the way to a point located low in the foothills north of provo motivated by his dream it is reported that the youthful peay went to old mexico and followed the signs right to the last one which pointed toward alpine whereupon he observed the exact spot in that area where a vast treasure was located although it is said that the time was not right work was started and continued for the next thirty five years ceasing in 1938 duee to

irelreafife1fifeife saints p 283 89 90 the death of the old man the location is known as tneane nephite laman

itce dinepminepmine o and some iteitte 0 is apparently still in evidence distance north of what Is known as the old bear home in alpine with the passing of the years stories have filtered down which tell of the strange experiences peay had in working his claimclaimoalaimo tt appears that as he extended his drift into the mountain the excavation had the appearance of having been previously worked ouloutoutto each year as a point about seventy five feet from the portal was reached he would find himself powerless to go further on several occasions a personage is said to have appeared to him and standing before him prevented his digging further at this point gravel would begin to sluffaluff into the tunnel forcing a hasty exit each spring as he returned to his labors it was found that the workings were completely filled in requiring him to begin anew his task of exhuming the nephite treasuretreasuredtreasutreasureoreo sachsuch was his re 2 heatedpeated experience for the next thirty five yearspearsoyearso A venture which is rather like the nephite lamanite undertaking was pursuedporsued in the mountainous area near brigham city in northern itahoutaho there the decadent evidence of the majestic mine stands as a memorial to the labors and dreams of fredrick Jjo holtenhoiten which spanned more than half a century according to his own testimony holtenhoitenhoitholtHolftencen while still a young man living in england was it caught up by the spirit of the lord and brought to utah at that time a territory of the united statesstatesostateson being directed by a heavenly messenger he was taken to the mountains near the present

2 ibidabidtbidfbidoebido g pep 2850 9192 site of brigham city and at a specified spot was shown a mining location from which he was to extract a vast fortune in boldgoldboldogoldo this wealthwealthy he was told was to be used to industrialize brigham city and make it totally self sustaining A communal order of some form was to be initiated and the city itself was to grow to become larger than los angeles california at the proper time the continued outpouring of earthly treasures would be used in the construction and beautification of a new jerusalem 3 to be located in jackson county missourimissourlomissourioMissourlourio As directed holten came to utah and began miningminingomaningo some time later he claimed to have what he called his dream of the good ship zion he supposedly saw himself aboard a ship which represented the mormon churchchurchechurchy A great and terrible storm approached and in the contus ion that ensued the ship was steered in the wrong directiondirectdirectionsdirectionoionolonotono at this

time he related that the captain was removed and he p foltenyholtenyholtenhoiten replaced him after guiding the ship safely through the storm he eventually

brought it securely into portporto As a resultresuit of this asserted experience lp holten firmly believed that he would one day become the president of the mormon church and retrieve it from the apostate course into which it 4 supposedly would fallfailfalifallo at the time of his death hoitenholten was ninety five years old and totally blind the last years of his life were spent in a home for the aged in logan utah the majestic for a time worked by two of helleneseolhoiHoltensoens sons in law now stands abandoned during the sixty or more years of its operational history no paying ore of any description was ever brought forthforthodortho

3interviewinterview with fredrick Jjo holten junejime 1 1959 41bid4bid 92

A further example of this sanesonesamesome phenomenon is to be noted in thetche activities of ben bullock of proveprovo utah bullock maintains that in the year 1915 he received a heavenly manifestation while plowing on his farm near proveprovo coming to the end of a furrow he suddenly became very weak but states that he did not lose his senses at this moment many things concerning his future were revealed to him observing that he would suffer as far as his standing in the church was concerned he was verthenevertieneverthene 5 less not to become bitter A stewardship of great wealth was to be his eventual reward but only after he had lost all that he possessed except a few mining interests the entrusted riches were to be used for the building up of the kingdom of god the gathering of the righteous to zion and for the feeding and housing of the saints during times of famine and distress he saw a largelargel beautiful mountain which had not existed before but which represented the great wealth he would eventually receive it was further revealed that if he was faithful all that he 6f had seen and many other things would come to pass 6 in 1921 on the night following his death jesse knight supposedly appeared to bullock and stated that his mission had been to reveal the treasures of the earth and distribute them for the edification of the church and its members his mantle was put to rest upon bullock whose mission would be even greater than was jessesjessels he was informed that he would have to go through much trial and tribulation even more than jesse had endured 7 5 5bullockbullock states that he was in great financial need due to a number of crop failures and was contemplating giving up his position as bishopbishops before he could do so however he was replaced 6 interview with ben bullock july 3 i9601960 7 athe7thethe writer was not able to discover the extent to which knight may have suffered 93 bullock laid further claim to an appearance on the night of february 13 1957 of the deceased john Hho koylekoylerkoyleo he infers that afteratter renewing their friendship koyle expressed dissatisfaction with the way the mine was being runruno he reportedly informed bullock that he was digging in the right place and wouldwouldwou1dwound soon strike a very rich oreomeorcooreo he also indicated that the chain of mountains to the southsouthwestdestwest of payson 8Q utah was filled with vast quantities of valuable oreoorco bullock has spent forty seven years at his tasktasko his chietchief oper Q atlon is the bullock tunne19tunnel which is located to the east of santsantacsantaqabulaqululnalnuin n utah however he has numerous other interestinterestsinterestzinterestsoso according to the rtrecordscordz of the united states securities and exchange coriucociucommissioncissionnission he is listed as president of black gold and mines corporation del marva oil and gas corporation liquid gold and mines corporationcorporation utah galena oiloli011olioii01.1 corpor 10 atlon and syndicate oiloiiolioia and mineral companiocompanyCompcompanyoanyo 8 certified statement made by ben bullock in the presenpresencee of witnesses on february ihybihy14 1957 A copy is in the possession of norman Cco pierce 9 on march 5 and 6 19591959. edward Sso hanley a mining eneeDgengengineerineer acting under the direction of the USbosouoso securities and exchange commission made a thorough investigation of the bullock tunneltimnelogunnel inspectinspectingii47 the various diggings at the 5000 5500 and 6800 foot elevations he concluded that except for a trace of iron oxide stain no metallic mine- alizaralizationtion was cresentopresentpregentprepresentosentogento although it had been reported 1thathaihaf some gagalenalenaiena ore had been taken from the upper workings soresome time before 1923192391923.9 itjit lkwasas not in evidence at the time of the investigationinvestigationsinvestigationo hanhanleyley indicated how evenevexeverevee that if such an ore were present then the project had possibilitlespossibilitiespossibititleso in such an eventoevenly however the tunnel at the 5500 foot level which had been sunk with the intent of intersecting the ore body goudwouldgowd ststillstihlj 11 not be necessary and stood as a gross demonstration of poor judgment and mis- management 0 in my opinion hanley concluded thethe property that I1 examined is one of poor metallic mineralizationmineral i zatI1on and there is little reason to expect commercial productionproductionsproductioneproductioneionolono USbosouoso securities and exchange commcommisarlonCommisis si818.1erlonarlonerioncn ben bullock file new house building salt lake city utahutano 10ibid 94 the securities for these compacompaniesniesp none of which are registered with the securities and exchange commission are conjointly held by the bullock trust and investment company the company is supported by the voluntary sale of personal stock by stockholders who donate part 11 of the sale to the companycompanyo during 1959 and 1960 the bullock enterprises were under in- vestivestigationgation by the US securities and exchange commission having been charged with numerous fraudulent misrepresentations in stock salesbalesbaiessalesopaleso 12 A case in point is that of mrsarsomrso lillian jane workman a sixty seven year old widow who in april 1957 purchased 30000 worth of del marva oilolioid011

securities from parley W pierce one of the principal stockholders in the bullock concern while being proselyterproselyted for the sale mrs workman was told that in 1850 brigham young a former president of the latter day saint church had predicted that great wealth would come from santaquinSantaquin mountainMountalnealno bullock she was informed as per his vision in 1915 was to be an in- strustrumentment in bringing the wealth forth on thispremisethis premise she was promised

would 300000000oOO00 own that if she invest 30000300 J which had been set aside for her burial expenses the earned dividend would be sufficient to sustain her during a two year mission for her church should she desire to go on oneoneo in addition she was specifically promised a 1000 return on her invest ment within three months time she was not toldthattold that her purchase was

11 ibid

12ibid 95 for personal stock but on the contrary was given to understand that her total investment would be used for corporation purdopurposespurposesopurposeso to clinch the deal and assure their victim that they were gods gift to her future welfare pierce and ilockalockbullockbu revealed the secret of the lattersbatterslatters overwhelming success as a mining and oil expertexpertsexperto before her amazed and curious eyes the two displayed and then demonstrated for her a strange appearing object which she later learned was a ttypeype of divining rod the device was made of wire tubing and shaped like a

W with a fifteen inch wire welded on one end to the apex of the n11W and containing on the other end a plastic bottle cap the instrument was generally carried about in a small case containing numerous tiny bottles which were said to be filled with a variety of pure substances applying the so called principle of like tracksattracksattractsat like and the natural attraction of like substances it a bottle containing for example gold would be screwed into the end of the rodrodo A diviner in this case bullock would hold the rod by the two arms of the IVW and proceed slowly in the direction at which the gold might be located if the desired substance were in the area the arm with the sample on the end of it would indicate the direction to be taken and eventuallyeventua11y pin- point the exact location of the ore body or for that nattermatter any sub 13 stance a sample of which might be contained at the end of the wire

13letter13 letter from G gallgail weggeland acting attorney lnin charbecharge of the united states securities and exchange commission 1119 newhouse building salt lake city utah to james R christianson january 24 1962 A copy is in possession of the author in order to impress his listeners with the extreme sensitivity of his device bubullock11ock has often boasted that should a human foreskin be placed in a container at the end of the rod and the rod held close to the abdomen of a pregnant 96 greatly impressed by what she had both seen and heard mrs workman suggested that bullock mustroustmoust be in great demand by numerous big oil companies she was answered that he had been offered thousands of dollars to work for such agencies but was not interested in big money having only the future security of his mormon brothers and sisters in 14 mind needless to say mrs workman purchased the proffered securities these and other evidences of their supposed good faith have been presented by bullock pierce and several other fellow conspirators to numerous hapless individuals from all parts of the united states most of the contacts were made by the highly sanctimonious bullock and his cohorts during the regular spring and fall conferences of the latter day saint church or at any time of the day or year as mormon faithful usually elderly ladies were going to or from a visit at the famous salt lake temple although the file of the securities and exchange commission is bulging with certified affidavits describing the fraudulent acts of bullock and his associates as yet only punitive actions have been taken woman the resultant motions of the rod will indicate whether the expected child is a boy or a girl interview with G gail weggeland august 25 1961 the divining rod has been bullocks chief aid as he has engineered his way through the mountain during the excavating of his prime project the bullock tunnel A favorite come on used by the diviner is to tell people that the rod clearly indicates that he is only eighteen or twenty feet from the mother lodeiodeloccolodco the writer was told this in 1957 by one of bullockbullockss associates and again in 1959 byy bullock himself

ih14 securities and exchange filefileoylieflieg 97 against the offenders in view of the fact that bullock is well past his eightieth birthday it is doubtful that anything more than an oc- casionalcas ional warning will be directed toward himhimo 151 A final illustration which to a degree parallels the dream mine story concerns the humbug and other mines of jesse knight 16 utahs most successful miner the humbug the first of knights successessucessessucesses is to the knowledge of the writer the only mining venture of its kind that ever developed as its owner had foreseen that it would during the late 1800s1800 jesse had been prospecting along the east side of godiva mountain in the tinticgintic utah area he was sitting under a pine tree to rest when to his great surprise he heard a voice

say this country is for the cormonsmormons 1 the impression which followed left with him the feelingfeeling that god had chosen him to be a special steward of utahs mineral wealth and that his continued efforts would be marked with repeated success so long as he generously used the profits to further 17 the lords work

in 1896 while they were working the humbug claim j knight told his son we are going to have all the money we want as soon as we are

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16 A friend named roundy who refused to associate himself with the knight venture referred to the undeveloped claim as a damned old humbughumbugshumburgs 11 this name stuck

17 17jJ william knight the jesse knight famfajnily salt lake citescitycitys deseret news presslpress 1941 appp 838386mam786 see also fife ppo 282 98 in a position to handle it properlyproperlyoproperlyoiyo we will some day save the credit of the church 18 letters brought to light in 1930293019302.930 show that in 1899 knight responded to a plea by wilford woodruff president of the latter day saint churchchurchy who was calling on wealthy meffmembersbers to come to the aldaid of the churchchurchy which at the time was in great financial needneedokeedo he present ed woodruff with a check for 10000 for the knight family this was a literal fulfillment of the above prophecy in later years sums amount ing to several hundred thousand dollars were given to this same religi- 19 ous body as a result of the knight successessuccessesosucces seso

summary

As far as the writer has been able to discover j the knight venture was the first of utahs dream mines assuming this to be true and inasmuch as it turned out to be the only success one is led to speculate as to the true source of inspiration of the men responsible for the numerous failures such reasoning is encouraged by the fact that invariably these other men vis koyle bullock peay holten and others were acquainted with knight and his successsuccessosucsuesuccessorcesso eveneyenegen if he had published an infallinfallibleinfallableable formula for success his visionary contemporaries could hardly have patterned their several ventures more closely after his own than they did in every case the original motive of each is traced to some form of supernatural experiencexperienceexperienceoexperiencedeo

18i A after mmuchmuehuch hardship the humbug was a success 0 knight continued to invest his money and eventually became a multi milliorinalremilllonnaireo the mine required some fourteen years of continual labor before it finally paid off in the latter part of 189618960 knight 9 opopo citelteitcitoeiloello p 8580 19 appp 84 86 1 ibid 8486 99 eaeahbahh man as to become the stewastenardstewardd of a vast store of wealthwealthy each was to suffer undue hardshipbardship and finally each was to dedicate his fortune to the building andalid sliseslis4sustainingaaningaining of the kingdom of god as found in the latter day saint chijuchij3cauthochuthoah2h while this might noinot be a caecase of the blind following the blind it does portray in some respects a childs game of follow the leaderleazeroleadero CHAPTER vilVII

THE KOYLE RELIEF MINE ANDAMD THE ORDER OF AARON

any suggested relationship between the aaronieaaronic order uandundnd loelooheino koylekeykoyleie mine Is seemingly more speculative than factual11 Althoughlahoughalthough ii11 Is essentially true that there exists in the minds of somesompgomegomp a concrete desire for a union of the tvotwo the questionable future of each ir- dl respective of numerous boastful claims to the contrary tenos tofcoubobuo djduhdubj suade any eventual possibilities for such one must conclude success for both parties in order to assume otherwise with this in mind the present chapter presents a brief narration of the history of the order of aaron plus the available facts of its conjectured association wiliwillwiwilhnh the mine

the aaronic order andor the order of aaron according to maurice L glendenningiGlendenninoienolengiendenningglendenningGiendenninggi founder and present dich rector of the aaronite movement this organization was instituted and established by christ in the year 17361736 BC although not generallygeneraliygeneralcygeneragene rallyrailyliyllyily accepted by mankind he claims that there was and is a continuation of0 this church to the present he proposes that zacharias and john thoth baptist as well as christ and his apoapostlesstiesotiesotles were members of the orderorderobordero the dead sea scrolls he asserts contain the actual history of the order of aaron previous to the time of christ during this period those of 1 Iinterview with maurice L glendenning chief high priest of the order of aaron august 14 1958

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t heh- orde were CTcommonlynonly known asfastas EEserenosesenosenesenossenes baptists seers ardand heahealhealershealeroleroberoc n the aaronlleraarortitesAaron ilerileslLer behlibellevolreiroire that from thee time of christchryst uuimauimjlinliuafuxfu thethelthem presentpre ent the ftiesthoodpriesthoodlestiesthood of aaron w-wasis kept intact by tlletilethebheie ancestors of 2 their prophet glendenning suggested proof of this ancestoralancestorialances toral onaconon1 lectionnectlonnection is presented in the form of several docidocumentsments 3J these arcareacearg

11L A certified statement by glendenningsgiendenningsGienGlendennings father miltmlltonmilton W glendenning written in 19551945195j just previous to hishi deaildeathh atzatcat the age of ninetyfiveninety five the statement refers to hj knowledge of a mamaiblemalbiemarblemarbieibleibie tablet upon which was inscribed a blessing givenianivn to him by hishis father henry glendenning he then y tatesbatesstates that since maurice glendenning is hisME first barnbornbnrnbonn he is atitled to110 o aau11 rights and blessings of the sons of aaron as foredreforedreferredrereformedfoyed to on the stone tabtahtabletietlet

221 A marble tablet with anon inscribed blessing aichhichwhich state ii that milton W glendenning is a direct descendant of aaron and that his son should bring about the restoration of the keys of the priesthood of aaron

3 an encased catskin with a beautifully penned blessing thereon given to john glendenning by his father john glendenning who was the third great grandfather of the aaronite leaderloadersloadero this was written in the year 1799 it confers the blessings of the seed of aaron upon john jrarijri and his descendants 4 A certified genealogy tracing the glendenning family line back over more than a thousand year periodperladoperlodo commentary on the work by its author not a GglendenningLendeing states that 1thenhehe Aaronaaronicdc priesthood and kblitssitswits powers were traditionstraditionatraditional1 in the history of the Glengienglendenningderming family he further indicatesindioates that ttloatlo1 ho century oldoldoid family baronage in scotland was oderatoperatopoperatederat ed under a primitive type communal orderordey

A second genealogy IsJs referred to which supposedly tratracesfracetraceces tthehc lineagellneageiineagelineage of the glendenningsGlendennings back through one of christs apostles to 4 aaronaaronaaaronn the brother of moses

2 ibidthidiblibi d beach3eacheach of the documents referred to are in the possession of maurice glendenning and were viewed by the writer athe4thethe book of elias or record of johnsaltJohn Salt lake city corporation of the president of the order of aaron 194419 section 138l38c 102 the order of aaron as prelprespresentlysentlybently organized owes its existence

famii rfortseffortspforts of mauricemaurico lerrie glendenning this son of a cherokee 1indian and a traveling saisalesmanesman began at the age of seven to receive strange rrianifestatmanifestationsionslons which though variable in nature have continued

to thetlletile present what started as distant but beautiful strains of 2nusicmusie soon became a choir and eventually a single voice which spoke rectadilectadirectadidirectlyy to him commanding him to keep a record of all that was said in 1926 due to adverse social and economic conditions glendenning moved to salt lake city utah and two years later had his sami-fam- liyilyly join himmm there the folfoifollowinglawing year 1929 he and his wife were baptized intointpintq the latter day saint churchchurchechurchy the reason for their join- ing he said may be traced to the fact that they both felt a need for religious affiliation and there were no other churches of a practical nature available 5 from the very beginning glendenning found that he was unable to understand the many messages he claimed to receive however as the teachings of his church became more familiar such words as priesthood elias alltatitavitauthorityhority concons rtoionhionmiona ionlon and many others took on new meaning and eventually he vaswasas able to comprehend that which the voice had been dictating to him since 1908 of special help at this time were a number of acquaintances to whom hebe showed the writings and from whom he received 6 apparently satisfactory explanations of their meaningmeanings this early group

5g1endenningglendenning interview 6interviewinterview with ed schofield august 11 19591999 schofieldSchofielaleid was s the first man to whom the writings were shown in provciprovoiprovokprovo he became one of the earliest followers of the aaronite banner 103

of .9 mormon wlhilo of asoiaasoiatesasroiatestes were 9 without exception members of the church whoin found irliritri tikinkih doctrines of eilas a ready answer to the theolotheologicalgIal dlfdifdirdditeite

tetenesferenferencestetenferencekterencesoeses which had arisen between them and their churchht cheh 0 byry tithetiietiletlle ie end of 19311013j numerousnumerolumerow is vellveilweliwe atattendedten discussion groups were rifmeetingulf tingetinge throughoutthroughoufthroughou1 utah county in april of that year the churchchurchy cognizant of thetlletrietnie linIrnirnjactimpactjactjaetpact the teachings of glendenning were having upon many of its members aedued warnings to therherne faithfulfaithfu1 to beware of individuals professing rcvelationso

elder josephdoseph fielding smith of the council of the nelveneivetwelve stated 0 0 0 and when we finafindfandyina people secretly distributing what are salisaidsald tot be revelations that hah&haivehqiveve not come from nor received the upprovalapproval of the authorities of the churchchurchy we may put it down that suchouch thinesthingthings are ilotriotnot of god 7 economy although glendenningsGlendennings following was impressive 9.9 his economleconome situation was not therefore in 1932 he and two socidteoassociatesar franefranc 1.1 johnson and ray K hughes moved to a dry farm in alton utahitahoutaho A oaioalono n munal order of a sort was attempted by the three famtamfamilieslilesflies but it PAfailed miserably they were forced to live in tents they hadnadtiad but one doweowcow arax d the crops were very poor when glendenning became iiilii1illlillii11111 and bowdwowdvouid not d 8 his share of tietlethe work contentcontentioncontentlonlon arose and the partnership was djssoivcdissoivedoA

7semi annual conference report of the charchurcharchchurchh of jesus christ of latlaterlter day saints april 464 6 1931

8 amro interview with claud C weightweighty august ihybihy14 195919.59 0 mrmro weight was an early dream mine advocate whowho switched his allegiance to glendenning but always held that the movements would one day uniteunites 104104.104

tfc11owingfotfol lowing the altonaltonaiton exper11enceexperience 1thehe GIenglenglendennlnbgiendenningsdennings niovdniovinicyenicyv d tx0 o lvlrin

trjttfhtaj ana later in ige198ly1910io tiuthetirtirythey y moundniovndmovnd to losloy arivelegeJeuarigeleaagejeuAa 0 o ca jforrdao during bliehe fatjolatterjatjojakterT moiremove whilwhitcwhitac walkingwaiking alone near crystal sprng nevadanevadradaadam thletethie

aaroniaarortaarontaarona1 tet- tz ader claimed that chrischrls and eiasetasedas appealedappeared to him ad bkbd and anointed him as tultolfulfallowsfullowsfojiowslows unto yauyougou my fellowfehlowfeblowfediow servant in the nainename of eliasexiaseilaso we onieanioonloonio00me holdinghodding a11alali I1 the keys and authorityauthbuthorlLy vested in t tajtvj prithoodprighoodthondkhond of aarinoaaronaanonaarono and you being a son of aaron set acarlaparl and ordutuedordlirpd inlriirl bhe spspiritlritarit andnd having come into the fleshslesh by the wiliwill of the faiherfacherfuoaiFaioab her wevre now place oafoufoaraurour hands aponupon your head and boyhoy rc 1 bor unt 30.0 yoiyolyou aatlallL l of the keys and authority of the prjcsthoudpnlesthood ontountoonro which you were ordained in the pitpixpiattpixttpirllopirltott to aajJ1 I inix this authority with all of ththe keys of thetho priesthood of aaron as a first elghhigh priespriestr of the order of aaaarinoaaronoroycoy 1 9 whnahenvhenwhen visited by a delegation of betJebelieversvers from utah county in september of 19219 2 glendenning announced that the time had comeCOTOP for thrahrh work of ellaseliaseilas to commencedcommencecommenceo A second group artarrivedarr t red in novembertaverntovernNavernherber of h same year and made the first consecration which cononjstcd of a inanainanoananalnanalnnananaunauno1 at donationdonatlonodonat lonoiono on august 18 of the following year the order oloj01 aaron a ferfurfurtrialvrma1jTrial y orgaorganiedorganisedorganizedorganinIedsedced accordingaccording to the laws of the state nfof utahotahitahojtaho the deoppeoppeople1eae who acacoclaedsoclatsochat ed themselves with the new organization had origin ally startstatedglaytbtateded out wlwithth the idalda of revitalizing and reforming the latterlatteelaattelateerlaatze ko day saint church they now had a church of their ownowne jt r lameamesame aj a surpsumpsurprissurpripsurpriepriprj e to no one uhenwhen on january 15 19519451945. ctlendennjii1 rieyleyip and hishib entire

9 bleneblunebaluneblan ne W beeston now MIYmy servant caldwell idaho s coxlox printers ltdltdolado 1957 appp ktKQ tbir5 alsoaisoano book of ellaeilaellaseilas sec 217 the appeararieappeaxalceappearariearte of eilasellaseltas on this occasion was in harmony with an earlrearlaearlyr teimepimtpim b-byy oleoglendenninggleodenningGleog1endenndenningloging nichwhichY indicated that the volcevoicev he had beeheeheenbeenbeeriri heariehearingig was bhai of eliaseilaselaas under hosewhose direction he was to establish the order of aaron or ttethe work of eliaseilaskliasEllasellashellas11 10 ibid po 89089 0 105105

fc5ionp wc re earexrr oarnonyiiomrn uninlcatcdI1 cat d ffromadmrdm tkthetho latter dayaay saint church on ground Ll- ofojoi apoapotsvotastag y l-

glengien 1 in the spring of 19194551945.54545. ilenderningclenderningjlenddnningilenderningdenning traveled1.1 vLO missourmissouri in search of material proof of his aaroniaaroniteaaronafe ancestorsancestoryancestor hefleble aversagers that afteratter a great daidaldeal of researtroseartresearchh h discovered 11rhehe previously naninkni lncd am 12 and marble tablets during this same journey in august of 194ll11 aj1j thethic arxronttesaronaaron ue prophet was arrested in kansas Clitycityoltyottywity Missomissouriiari on charges of lilogllyillegallyillegatly wtwariwafdwaedwarijimarijiafiarlarijiig the offlbofflofficial71al unifuniiimtform of a captain in the united stalesstates medicamedicalmedicaj corpscorpsocompso heH pleaded guilty to the charges and was conittedconimittecl to the medical cecentercentea for federaltedefederairaJ prisoners ata springfield mismlsmlsouomriouriri he wasas releasedrelelsrebels d on oc0 ti 0berober 29 of thebhbhe bamesame year the newsnewy arttleartaleartayttcleptLe which reported the incident stated that he was also held in albany missouri in connection with a charge of auto embezzleembezzlementdentsments but thefcheache prosecution posted notice of disdad1dlodio 13 ccontlnaanceont 1 juancnuanc e directldirectly followingfoifoJ lowing the report of these two ine1dentsln denisdents ologloglndnglndonuden

E W ning wast as released as chief high elestbriestpriestiestlest of the order and dwindwandwjnedwanedwjn wo lee took his place along with the change in leadership sweeping hjngohangohungochange were made in the organization these reforms led to the granting of a newne w charercharter ry- the state in marfmartmaret 196019461.94619 60

under the articles of the new 2 harterhawtercharter2harterhayter anyone enterenterinfenteringinf the oralorclordere-r hhajJ to consecrate all perspersonalnainal properties in return he would rereceivecelvebelve afa stewardship which he became responsible for as if it11 verevenewereqere his own aniand from which he was required to pay an annual tithe dhulphulpu all surplus above 11 deseret news march 19 196 p 8 121.2I1 glendenning interview 13 deseret newsnewsjnewsy marchrehMA 19 9461946119 P 08 o 106106log

ii idd byordbeyond hsMs needs the tithing and surplus were loto10 be used for the updrlupdry of0 the fal1t1mefullfirnc administrators and forgorfortorror carrying on of atiaaiailallali organ- izationalizat ionallonallonai funrtioosfurwtions originally a member couldcollid withdraw or behe expelled and givegave up oni v tenren percent ppusus increasearacnracnr ac theth new bybulavsbvlavslaws nboushinbo UshI hi all possibipossibiii htyatyty of restorationrcbtoration alsoaisoatso under the new articles meldmeidmerdmembersbers of the order were caslcacahl sl fiedfled into three groupgroups tithing members consecrated members and 11111aunitedE d n gar riderorder meffmembersbersbees 0 tithing members are people who were on a firstarstfirst yaryear progro bationballonbatlon and had not consecrated their properties theythe y cowdcould not otevotemote they haahadbadhod totx pay one tenth to the order and were allowed to withdraw atut any timefclmeo tithing members who desired to continue ln bhe6the orderordyordey afterarteraftemartem their one year experience would become consecrated members followingfolfok lovinglowing a second year of probation and in turn be eligible for full fellowshlfellowfellowshipshl P as united order members after their third year idthvthdah the organizationoxganizatiorio ravingragingpacingbaving onreonce consecrated their properties however the consecration and united order members must forfeit everything to the hectsectseetseeboect if they shoiikhoiishouldld decide to withdraw from it at the present time the aaronitesAaronites have a few holdnoldnoidholdingsings in thetho provo and springvillesprinmrilleSpringville utah areas plus two much largelargellarge1r1 locations jrin central western utah on the utah nevadaneveada border at this latter placeplecoplaco the towns of cartounpartoun and eskdale have been established and are the home of the majority of the 200300200 300 members of the order for a number of years the headquarters of the order and the home of the chiefch ief high priest have been located at eighth fasteast and fifteentheifelfteonth

14ibid 15maurice15maurice L glendenning personal letter februarfebruary 19501.9501950c on file at the brigham young university ubraryllbrciry A fewcewre yccarrcrrritslesirs dridrielneloelnejei 4 0o deposed glendenning regained his former position of leadershipsofieadershipi 107 south ithi 3aj3jillj1111 lcikc city

Pohlpohlispohlnsns PcoculiapculiaullauLIahiatblat to the order of aaron aorriing to Crut1 u 9 weightwejcrht thirethere have been seven d1sjdispensationsensat1ons

1 1.1 1 D off t h fyospogospell civerciven tbo0I renmen therhe 1litbotlot one the dispensationdensapensa tiont1ontaon of the filfulfui ness of timetimes was to beb divided into tiotwottrotvovo times before the comingcoining of 16 the one mighty and strong who is belibellbelievedved to be jesudesurjesur christ joseph smithsmithpsmithy it Is taught was given the firsfirstt timetimet which was unto the gentiles and for the gentiles this gentile time was to be a forerunner of the if second blaetimetiniehime or the time of eliasellaseilas this first time it is believed was to last for one dispen- sation or 120 years the lord apparently foresaw that the church of joseph smith would consisticonsistseonconconsistsisti of a hardheartedhardhanahand hearted and unbelieving people and therefore prepared for the restoration of the house of levlevi to coincide with the end of the tffirst tinetime at which time a setting in order of the 17 hoasehouseeouse of god vouvoulawouldad1d also be necessary

other reTrepresentative1.1 re entativetentativeentative dottdoctrinesrines arearetaceares the law of consecration there is no place in the scriptures where this lalaiiallaj haslvis been revoked and itat must therefore be lived for a tullnessfullnessfuirui lisblnsb ofoc salvation there is no equalityoqualityequaloqualeua iluijuityluy outside the lav of cnsecratlonC knefqnefration sacnaneritsacrajdctfc the doctrine of transtransubstantiatlontransubstantiationdbstantlatlonton is considered haildvaildvalidvad id the bread liketikeilke the body of christ should not be broken and the wine should not be nenewe spiritsptritsplrjt ch1jdrenchildren in the spirit world spirits begat spiritsspirltsospirispirl tSo aaron was the first born of christ all levites are the spiritual

doctrinedc and covenants 857

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hijclren of christy

1 1 rerelnearnatinnnca rna 11 or 1111. the book of e11asei teachesteact baceacheshe s thialt ha manymagy havahaveiluliy previously resided in uiehieulehe fleshfleslaclesla on one or more occtsionooccbocc jzaz ionton i TIT isi a sommonsummoncommon corcconceptconcepconc t among merlmerimembersmenihershercberc of the order thaithattho gedcmjngalexglexgley j derning is actuallyactuaacquailyllyliy the firstlirstbornt born son of aaron evolution concerning evolilttoevojuttonevoJuttonn the booboorbook of eilasellaselias statch now myT 0 0 before these days according ttto Y voriworfvorword given unic moses was he nourished in the seas from aichhichwhich ailallaliaitalt creacreafurecreaturecreaturesfure came batbut in those days he was noinolnotnok man for he had not the inteiljigenceinted11gence given unto him from god therefore shallshailshali ycye know that from the seabseas of the earth ailallaih creatures eneverewereere on PPVW11n man even the ffowlsowls 0 0 rllaalpilbatpiluat marriage strlcstalcstrictt adheheraneadheraneadheranceadherencead rance to the docttdocotdoctrineinelne of monogmonogamymonogamyoamy polygamy is one of mans most seriouseriowseniow sinssinsohinso joseph smith did not practice polygamy it was first instituted in ututahah standard works the bibiebible therhe book of mormon thekhe pearipearl of great iriceprice andanaang the doctrine and covenants with the exception of section 132 are therrdsherrdthe word of the lord as IsTs all truth no matter where it IsJs foundfounds

thetho dream mine an appendage to the order of aaron

in early 1932 about the time hishiehibhig movement was beginning toLO find

solid footing inin the utah valleyvavaivatvalleyvaileyl leybey area maurimaorimaurdmaurie e L glendetiniglendenrnngioeiob rovinghaving been appraised of the hishistorylorybory and purpose of the koylehoylehoyie reliefrelreh leilet mine madmodmadrmoomaor a visit to that place ed schSohschofieldschoSchufieLdofield of provo utahutan acconipaniedaccompanied himliim to the hihill11 and introduced hmhim to ishopbishopdishopB koyle As has been noted both men were strongly visionary andaridarldana belthenelthenejthcrr was in good standing with his church the fact that they had these two characteristics in cormoncommon caused glendenning to suppose that nishishl llllsenrstenerlistenerllstener would be immediately sympathetic to the aaronite cause he had already

18Q new revelations for the book of eliasellaseilaseliaseelias1 194829482.948 chapters 2 5 15 and 21210 book of elisellseilseliaellaeila sec 205 213 215 214 147 h-

109

at op honuonon theun ft lil111ii ippie31 1tippirippirpinP rt 0 claud Weigweightlt a strong belibeilbelabel1believereverevem in and close

1 0 1attta111 ocC thath7h blbilopbillopLO lihtwiht Schufleschufleldiede ldd andaridarld others had convinced hinhhimin tiatha u thehp koyle mlkalkmihmth whirwhir1hi right at the time vaswas 9upposedisappobcdiyy &holngstioulng great 19 Ppromiseromitaemitpemilge of omirgomicomingoming rg intn would provide the financial strength necessary to project hisids infant ideologies irtointo his proposed kingdomiiingdom of god

after completely oiitlirclngoufcjining the work of ellaseliaseilas a3aa wovell1111111.11 as he andandr r stood it11 the firstfirstbornfirbttoornborn of aaron suggested the indusincluslo lonlouionti of the koyle mining company into his futurefluture conimnisticcomrnunl&tic organorganlzauonizatiionlono apparently without veneven pausingpausing to deliberate upon the proposalproposals koyle ordered his unsuspecting visitors from his workings informing them that he would not 2011 0 be a part of any apostateaposlatezate philosophy or faction during the years that followed serious differences of opinion arose between koyle and weight over the merit of the doctrines of elias in time the latter severed his active connections with the dyedredreandream mine when the order of aaron was organized in 1931943 he took the lead in the proceedings and was soon recognized as one of its chief leaders abas well as its prirpairprincipleprinciplc ciple theologian As long as koyle varvaswarwas alive no fartherfurtnerfurther effort was made to link the totwo movementmovements6 however at the time of his death the opinion was widelwidelywidejyheideld amongamon those itinterested in both movements that the 0 idjd dreamer was prematurely fl called home because of his opposition to the work of

19 see chapter litilg11 appp 293529 35

20 see schofield and weight interviews 110

niunivnimiuv itpt hadha leconabecomleconk noressanocessancceseaj yy so they saidealdeaidgaidgald to take him beyond the

veilaveil1 there to be sschemedi ed asa to thetlle true mission of the minemino after being properly oriented by elisellseilsellaselias it Is suggested that he will resurrect and direct his project to fruition as it wwasLs briginaoriginaoriginallylay L ri tendedbended thai he should following koylekoylesboyles death and the ensuing shutdown on the hlllhili there was no apparent interest in the ninewinemine as evidenced by members

of the orderorders ibyby 1957 however as operations were resLaresuaresumedned and a coicalicallcaical for workers went forth among the stockholders fred fink and later freddy hangarterbangarterBangarter established themselves fullfalltimefulltimetime at the workings from that time until december of 1961 they made every efforteftefforboru to push the 21 project to completion the board of directors during this period unlike the old bishop could see no wrong in having two such stalstalwartswarts

from the aaronite sect helping further the work at the niitnemtneinelne at thetho present time hangarterbangarterBangarter is the largest stockholder in the company and is intent on purchasing all available shares doing so with the firm condicconvic tion that not only will the tainerainemine successfully produce in the near futfutureure but that the order of aaron villviiiwill presentpregentpresently ly emerge lisascis the unmitlgateunmitigated representative of the kingdom of god on earth 22

0011 21inbervlewiryterview with freddy hangarterbangarterBangarter february 16 1961

22 ibidibidoebido also appendix XIXT following the incorporationreincorporationre of the company in april 1961 a change in attitude occurred with some members of the board of directors ultimately a decision was reached by that body which was generally intolerant of the oft expressed aaronite views of fink and hangarterbangarterBangarter each was asked to take a leave of absence until such time as they could reconcile themselves to the doctrines of the LDS faith andanaapa wholeheartedlywhole heartedly support its leaders neither man 16 1962 has as yet returned to the hill dixon interview feb J 111

summary

itjt can be said of those members of the order of aaron vittvitwilhwilwitvilhvith h whom the writer has made contact that they appear to be sincere iniri tthelwI1 beliefs and devoted to the cause they represent

maurice lerrie glendenning is an inpressiveimpressive gracidagracioagrocloasgregro cloas menmanmenomano heho

seems to have a good deal of enthusiasm for his work aaridarldrid Js apparently held in high regard by his followers aside from natural increase the order is not appreciably grow- ing in numbers with but few exceptions the adult members are older people the majority of whom have been associated with the movement since the early 1930s since the newness and to some extent the novelty of the sect have worn off there is little left of either a doctrinal or social nature which might appeal to an outsider this absence of appeal is especially understood when one considers the ordalordayorderss property buildings machinery and other holdings in the utah county area suffer greatly from lack of care and industry the writer feels that when glendenning dies the movement vulvuiuiliulliwill likely fade out since the leader of the order has no son to take his place and does not intend to appoint anyone in his stead the hope of thetho movermovementnent rests upon the supposed coming of the one mighty and strong who is to set the house of god in order and assume the leadership of the kingdom of god certainly to foresee the exact future of a contemporary orlyuorgarorgyu izationizafcion is quite impossible nevertheless one can lookipokapok to the history of the IDS church and view the many reactionary organizations both dyindolnedylne 112 nrvlnorvlnd dead strewn along the paths of time and dravdrawdr4wdr9w therefrom a conolaconoluconeon a-

1 slon which wwwould1 d not be mu-muchh less than accurate thphefhe order of aaron is surely typical of such groups and it is the writers contentionontexyt1 tl11 11.11 that anongamong such it is destined to find its final resting place

claud C weightweighty in a letter to the writer shortly berbeabeforebef r huhl i death spoke of the koyle relief mine as a project great beyond th

it comprehension of noatmostroostmoat men it is he indicated paralleled in signalgnlfi1 pi cance only by the order of aaron the mission of the latter must bebo understood he inferred before one can possibly comprehend the magnitude 23 of the former assuming that welghWeighweightstlette words were true then the summary as arilwrilwrit- ten for thpohpth aaronite movement would apply equally as well to its aparapprappendndnd age be it as it may the dream mine

23 weight interview chapperCHAPTERCHARPER vilVIIVIIJ 1

tiffteeTHE KOYUKOYLE MIMNGMINING COMPANY 1919192j949 192i9621962

shortly following the demise of its founder and dameramenamesakeramesakenampjakesakeeake thh koylehoyiehoyle mine vaskaswas closed except foifolroiforror the earecarecaretakertaler and dian clionclloncatoncatontdtd curious trespasser the next six years of the mines history were dis- turbed only by the intermittent visits of stockholders who helped work out the annual 8000 assessment obligation assigned to the koyle property

during the summer of 1955 qmyleqvaayleamyle dixon the former company secretary who in 1950 was elevated to the board of directors received a series of letters written by one al sinclair of texastexes in his corres- pondencepondence sinclair made broad inviriesinquiries about the mine LNentuallyeventually he requested of dixon that he send him a saniclesamplesaniplesampie of a certain oreor which be had heard the mine contained after some delay aichhichwhich occurred due to ignorance of the mine offcjaofficialss concerning the exact oiibtcsolbstail e beingbeling sought a spiesamplesampie frumfromcrom thelne originorigillali shaohashafttiapttiapaft vaswassagvag for7ardedforvardcdforwarded tch tlethettl requesting

party that this was acceptable was r videnvidenedvidvidencedevidencedenedcedeed by a 25 chekche K from sin-

clair to the koyle company along with an order for additionadditionaladditionadad quantquantaifciflescieleg1 ies of the sadesame ore during the followingfoj lowing months several tons wregre hipbipbippedhippedbippenshippedped 100 plus freight being paid for each it was later learned that ththekhe

stranger from texas was supposedly procprocessingessing the oreor aadand i ging it into make idlessacidlessacidnessac auto batteries which it is claimed havebave pralpraiprolproveded to be treeygeryvery successful

brooksby interview j lihlialin13413.4 intn laielatelailat lg19561.956 sinclair dijvilteldold edpd thh minemn randnd introdd d melfohimelfohi nelfo itir Is saidoaidsald thatthai he imiijfit v hn dlstng the orkingorking 1 uh detail that he was able tottofcotco descdesedeacdescribet ibe ome ore samples wlilwhawh1 1lii n jn

1 lirjbirj jigdig from the tunnelbunnelhunnel that very day ii a lort t helaeinelne parentiapparentiapparentap 1 1yay wontwo mifolgM if

complete onfidenceconfidence of the board f1 di rccqr&o sachsuehsuchsaensuen isio ladled ed lbsb 1kleikleaklehe fact that during the winter of0 19619 rig7i6 and 957957.95719571957. under tits ddirttreeftrecftrecacioneionelonlonion lneshedc long neglected ralsra-rallsis supportsupportsft aadand iaddebaddejedderjadderr leading to0 o aidandald ddownaownairtjirt the vnti were placed in good repair after m-muhih effort which required piznpirgpurnpingpurnping waterwatey from the last 100 feet coff the workings serious excavation Oedegatooegatopegaogatogalo

1- however 1.1 any anticipated success vasvaowaswao short livedliveo due ho0 o a brokebrokenn pump 2.2 which allowed the water to rapidly fill theahehhe preprevlousjyvious1 y cleared areaaraoayea discouraged by this adverse situationsdtuatdon the miners retIretiredretjrpdretiyedYed trtc an apparently promising location at about the 200 foot ievelevelevellevet inspired by the confident sinclair the worworkerskaerskzershaersezers pursued an indefiniteI1 cotasecowcomcotese several hundred feetreet into the mountain from thisthistbisabis excarationcavatcavalloncavatloncagatexcalationexcarationfonfodlon solmsoniesonio wiuesvojaevojue were presumably isolated by dr alfred brooksby a relirodrolirodrretaret redbed denlastdentastlAst and

11oli I1 sselfseifeif aappointedP pointed alsayeassayedassaye however1 rc iret whewhenri n attenplratnompr tasbas fccwrewccgrema dc ro0 mnlrkrr the ore in a quantity sufficient for hijiimijii tae UP ouid iino lonrconr be

I1 ghaf n 1 detecteddetectedf brooksby teslflecltestlfled thatthaf theechese ns0nsfasenseCDgatfvegarfve reebreresurensrehssu ltsalts ncrnerncirredthredtxred becaheoebecausese the lord desired to momentarily wfthhoiwlhhho3l t e reportedreporredreprepnylzedorred successilccr SS un4una 5 om future date 3

2 the board of directors encouraged this acatiatlativitynativityvity intn the vinz irrespective of koylesboyles prophecy which indicated thathatt the siaslasidside dri wcvuideuiduac3 produce first followed by the virewirevjrevare71nzezinze see chapter 1li4.4 somsomrSOMI vartvarryarrE EeailleraT 1 1 7 when the winze had first filled with viaterwater bishop kylekyiekoy le isib quoiquoteded asa saying that when the time was right a J ightlight earhuakrearlrhqiake omaiawouldwmaia eyneaynocynose a fisf in- sure which would drain it off therefore dumpingpumping in this area was nnotnutjtj t to have been necessary pierce 22op cit p 63 alsoalsoaiso interinterviewirfew althwllhwlth may roy cloward 9.9 31 1961

brooksby lutintlubinterlieintervieintervlevervieervle Y AalsoaisoLs dikdixdikadlendiunn inter vv1 i durjurjun 3 a919aa 0 115115 vlhvahgih111thtilth theltthelitheir luhlaolUhiaolao dampened and their financial reserves ltujil 11jliijqiiq ti ti1I thcztyczhl Jhturhaur hiltlhaitid oh actactivityvity fromfroin the sum f iii i ulof 1957395739573957. intil thrthcjhc alnpinplnin of N at this time the mysteriousmyster loasioaslous sin

c loarlo3rI1 on Lr who numeoufnumerne ousrouscouscoueouf e 411nsounonncun stocstockholders1hoihoaho idersiders est-esteemedeemed isns oneon of the three 14 t 1 tietreticnfephjfcestes convinced the mine iidcrslidersieieadersleadersheadersaders that theyI hey had misunderstood koyle it was necessary he Informinformedpd them to first rearealizelizeilze coranercialcomrnercial value from the vast quantities of ore already taken from and stored irin the mine thus obtaining the necessary funds required to pursue the project to its predestined end he proposed the manufacture of a soil con- ditditionerioner by refining this ore which supposedly contains some twenty seven trace minerals all highly valuable as soil additives from 1959 to the present large quantities of conditioner have been distributed to stockholders for trial use on their farms and lawns one ton of conditioner isla to be administered to each acre of land once a year for six consecutive years it is believed that lands thus treated will produce crops which will provide man and animals with all the vitamins and minerals necessary foiforfox healthful living adalloAILOtioeio110 I1 bi6gerbidgerbi&ger and better pest free crops will supposedly result from the prescribed treatments

4 koyle allegedly stated thattjattaat ann unmistakable sign pointing to the immediatealatediate fruition of his ventventureure would be forthcoming in the form of oneiewho would be recognizerecognized4 as a nephite to many sinclair represents the traditional nephite image perfectly it is reported and believed that he can travel great distances in a very short time that he seems foto have been to all parpartsts of the globe and that he discusses many phases of history as if he haahadhag actually experienced them refusing all compensation for his activities att the mine he simply states that he is a servant of god and is only doinedolndoin that which is his duty koyle interview july 4 1960 also brooksby interview ilg116 perhaps the most signifsigniaslgnifleantleant feature of this super ffertilizerertiertllizer is a sigestedvigestedsisllggestedgested builtinbuilt in property which would counteract radioactive fall- out in case of atomic war company officials maintain that the devast- ation wrought by the dropping of nuclear bombs would be reduced to the disaster area alone if their conditioner were generally accepted and used apparently encouraged by several purported incidents of success which followed generous applications of the preparation totp farms and gardens ambitious plans for the marketing of the product under the brand name of KOMICO an abbreviation of koyle mining company were laid in 1960 actual production is anfldanoldanticipatedpated as soon ae all legal restrictions areacaavaaye properly complied with mine executives envision a popular 5 worldwide market for their future product on march 12 1961 the fifty year period for which the koyle 6 mining company was originally incorporated came to an end had it been possible to call a stockholders meeting wherein a majority of the outstanding stock would have been represented a simple amendment to the articlesartiartlclesciescleg would have extended the deadline indefinitely since this did not appear probable the board of directors decided to allow the old company to become defunct and organize instead a new corporation to be named the relief mine company therefore on april 12 iggi1961 the officials of the newly formed company filed acceptable articles of incor-acorncor porationporation with the offices of the utah county clerk and the secretary of state 7

edixon5dixondixon interview P feb 16 1962 also brooksby interview oyie6koyleoyle articles article lilliiIII111 p 3 7articlesparticlesarticles of incorporation relief mine company located in the office of the secretary of state capitol biagblagbldg salt lake city utah p 1 lit117 during the fifty yaryears of the0 mlnelzmine offjci4iexjsteneeoffirilirliakiljkil existence from 1910 to 1960 a large number of stockholders aleoaleddied leaving their dreeadredadreamdrearo mine securities in the handsbands of theirtheir dirsojaeirsJaeeirsoirs many of these second genergenerationatlon share holhoiholarholdyholdrholdersdr did not properproperlypropertytY register theirtheintheir inheritance with thethae company eecreirvo acAs a result of thisthibtsifisthifis plaspiaspluspiusp3uspaus numerous unrecord- ed sales ranatlonsranattransittransat lonsions andend the apparent lossjosslogs by bowsoweowgome persons of theirhely stock certificates progressprogressive bangsansesanges in the articlearticlesartiartlarel clesis of thehe oomsoomwcoibpattyy reuir01requirbequir ing a majority of the socksookstockstook be1beibeabeling voedvafedvofed had beenn greatly hindered andana discourageddiscour4geddiecourgedo therefore the epirauonexpirattonexpiration datedqte of the 04oldoid cortgortcortorationcorporationoration was 8 looked to vithwith little11 tiietile 41spleasurpdlsplea6urpo the zietyrieziene ty arthuesarttuesay t teles of incorporatloninorporatjion contained severalvwajl significant changes over their predecessorpredecessorspredecessorsoso first of ailyallyaliallail kaylekpylekqyle was dropped froni theofftheofrtheofficlalthe officialiclal name of the corcorporalcorporatcomcorporationporatlonion making jtst the relief mine companioCompcompanycompanyoanyo Furthfurtherpr the organizatlonorganizationorganizatjion viswisvaswas to bavehave perpetual existenceexistencco whereas the iginapriginaqriginapariginapr company hdhad concerned itself with metallicmeialllcmeta1lic products only non metallic substances and petroleum products verwervenewerewene loir to receive consider atlonationo factfactoriesoriesortes indusdelindusingus malmaimalmaihalDel pplantsplentstants ard mercantile esesfcabllshinentstabiltabllmabll shmentssements are within the sopscopegop and vision f thetineclaecine nevnenew coneeconcegnerroconeeriionerroon erroenroriiriania ththe amount of capital stackstocks1cckstqck vaewaewa increased from 700 000 shares inIP theh gid enterprise to10 1000000 in the awavoawo liailajlaji eddiadOtadottlonaadditionaltlonationa specaficatjon&pecspec ificauon directed that allailanaji bonafide owners of shareseliaresetiares inn the koyle mining company naymaymayi surrender salisaidsald shares to the secretary of the relief mine company for cancellation endandana may receive in exchange a like elmbernlmbernumbernqniber of chares inn the latter corporatloncorporationcorporationscorporationocorporatlonationo all transactions must be blademade within seven years from the date the announcement vaswas

8A DdixonA xon intprviqwinterviyvlykiy june 2tat2 1961 0 0 1 3 u 0 irtairt uhlauhlj najnrj r filcfilpfliprnflip rn I1 h y cc T j lu quayleouayle dixon arpsprps J n hr ih 0ococd vji-i r e rpreain4res i d e Y it D uglso dixon treasurert rea uretureraurer levar nrcnacTICC c rtirv lhlemblirlicclr n of0 f rh on 1 of dirzorcDirD lorstorszorc areakreare quayle dixon ilr lo10.10 10 romer FLHaferrherr ic T id A ronierhomer harooddaroodflirir toodrood horace btcasribrouenbrougnI1 boujadoujadoutC js n ada sinclairsinclair under the direction of these men several wnbitiousajnbltious projects have been undertaken shortly after the reorganization was legally attattendedendeaended tc a contract was negotiated vithviehwith the intermountain telephone company aichhichwhich specified that the telephone people would widen and surface the rodroad located above the mill 1nann return farfotfor a rllihtrihtnihtrhtaht of way across the koyle property thethoth noinwnor completed roadway affords easycasy access to a newly con- structedstructed telephone relay tower situated somesume distance uipulplipup the mountain also if the directors should deciddecaddecide to renew activities at the old diggings or desire to exploit several low gradegrage iron ore cjainkA admsdms located in the area the greatly improved roadway goes far in improving the possibility if not the probability of either venture

reliefheilerbeilerrellefreilerbellef mirminele artarticleslelesleies arartjebtl e s I1 tv V appp 7 11

10 rereliefiletliefilee mine articarticlesles p 9 A stockhostockholderlderideridem dusmusldusldustmus L bavehaveve 100020002.000 sbaresharesharershares to qualquaiqualifyLisy as a directordiredirectorborhorclor sinclair wawas granted bheohetheche necessarynecessciry amount in order that he might so ququalifyilifybilify for a list of officers and participating stockholders in1 n the nekanekqno compcompanyariyarvy see appendix IX

11 dixon interview february 1 1962 r-

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uiur I1ingipgr uihe iivoiivr iff 196iggi1961 i thehe presiden of the company learned

r c J TI arljrl rprcdiv discovered 0 vollitionaryrevolutionaryrcvolutionaryrc method of nrocegtng a r1etyverityvarityvemityV raety 0op previously urvnanageableurmanagreable rare metalmetaimotalmehalmehai ores accord 10

1 1.1 v fatifjti cnon ev jnnn i to allailaliolloil rpportf thetho weftwjrtwartwert would erituallyeverrtually remake the minimmining in-n- dustry 1232 AsA on seversevencevenseverall 0 arlierarliorxrlior occasions thetlletile ninedinemine authorities found bichlich jjirci rnatinunatin lrregintibjc 1hetheahethereforeaforeefore after brief negotiations the inventor pitpirmr delossdeloosdelos el fattoneatton soldooid0010 hisnishiohlonio holdings in california and naved t ne oct ort djtanedj tane from ththetha mineidine in august 1961 he started

trat my in lh a cdafraacdafrniilaltutliY 1 larl ppilotil rarjjlarjlA trjt chichvhichvrhicb itlt a ncumcdallied would appreciably

1 l 1 rt at yt lw or nc auldvuldwouidgouid Nb foiLfoillefoillcfellfelb lc to go ahead with a full

I1 1.1 n oraor j ti rir i Tntnuarytenjen uary 19 02 as specifiedspecifded in his contracontractot patton completed his project several small runs have since been attempted but nothing defiriitdefinite hashatshaus beenboen established tt is hoped that the values which have

traiitionalytraditionally gone off as thlubosesgoseszesmesmee1 rillriliriiauncunaht nonnowr bebo rotrctainecdn cac1 andundanounonno reduced to a pure solid Tto accomplish thithl the nejneunew process actacts c asQS n sort of pres- uresureurc cooker which prevents the eiescapeca oe 0of aloalparoinnyixny goscoasgosozcazc coaseoascousou ubsbbsrubsoubsobbsr ternoestangosnes forcing

thon insteadinntead intinton i narbernimbermxibernjmber of iuajua 11ll cg tasstasotja15fj corlcorieoricontainersI ainers from heteherehero thythey are rorclarrrclarkkitredtredlitredlitoedloed d to liquid11L quid andariaarlaaridana wieregiere11 exeere pabpnb to solidssojids this same cooker action chargeschanges thetche oreoyexex e fronfrom a mAlpulphlclehalphidemalphidehide to inn oxide andana relayrelaxcsrelaxesrelaycsvelay cs it so that the values are 1 s 3jlxc1 iclyleix1yay to rogo offorfo rf nsz gcljpsas

1 thet1tatletiele kak0KOMICOteicotelco project aarandanrL a number of less tangible interests

12 see chapter II11 13 dixon interview february 16 1196219621962 120 loundround out the present activities of the company the money and manpower required to duruedunaeduraetietle these several ventures are mostly donated the company ha no stockslockblock for salesaies4leswie but readreadilyayiy purchases all available amounts 14 at thebhe rate of loo1001.00 per share

14 ibid CWTERCHAPTER IX

CconclusionsONC LUS lonsIONS

during the course of this study the writer took advantage of every opportunity to ask of people whom he interviewed what do you think of bishop koyle with but few exceptions the response veswaswesas com- liplimentarymentary to the memory of the old dreamer numerous individuals whose association with him was strictly official such as police officers 1.1

investigators writers and church officials referred tottofcotco koyle with varying degrees of admiration and respect several of the iatterlatter number expressed regret for having to enforce judgments against him not because they felt their actions were wrong but due to their favorable feelings toward hmhim many of the stockholders with rhomwhom the writer is presently ac- quaintedquainted appear to be knowledgeable devout honest people As with any movement of this nature however there are numbered among the believers an assortment of fanaticfanatics antagonists and speculators nevertheless this group seems to form a definite minority from 894.8941894894 until the last fw years of his life koyle fought

ithethe writerwriters father was a member of the utah county sheriffs office during a major portion of the time that the mine was in actual operation on several occasions he and his associates made official vis its to the koyle home as well as the mine the former they discovered to be an adobe shelter of very humble construction although their mission was seldom a friendyfriendly one they always came away with a definite impression that the old man was both sincere and honest

121 2221222222.22

i i innioniou louainuatouatnua natalinatallbabattailtall1 nithwith hhahidhimselfohimA seltoselfosettornselfunself As a member of the latter day

saint chchurelchurchu fetfel he fataithrullyithaiithdi filfily y reared ailallali his children tottotco accept and follow

itsi ts teachings 0 his tesheobeote&mmonytimenydimeny and membership were apparently very mea- ningful to0 o him nevernevertheleneverthelessthele s they were the sources of much internal co-

nflict when he atitemptedattempted to resoregoresolvet ve them with the mamany things he claimed

0 o hahavhagsreare ecpenncdoerper i ricedpriced in orloringtonnetonorinetononnetonorion lohilohfwith his minemjaeo this concisiononcusionslon is nciequatridecjliateliatcay1yJ y StainedsustainedSLIguigulsus tained by KoykeyekoyekoylerkoyleoiesieoLeO0 sister thowho stlatessatesstates john didnt know what to dodoo he wanted to obey the autho- sv yet he could not deny hal hadbad been to himhime we rities 2 hat revealed ill11 feitfeltegit sony for him1 if theeheh longongtong barren years contained uncertaintyuncertainly for koyle they wofewerewore equally confusing for many of his associates 0 A number of his most ardent supporters for many years wjwillingalinglling to exchange the good graces of the church for their confideneconfidencee in his infertile dredreamsams ultimately turned from him some did boso with feereefeelingsungs of indifference while others filled with disgust cursed the pcojectprojectgoject as being of satan and lamented their loss lain money time and fellowship ithnithwith their families and faith 30 4 typical of the former group were such men as carter Cco grant and J golden kimball the latter joined koyle in a special meeting sometime during 1941944191.9444 and pointing to him saidsald athisthisvthis time it had better come in bishop

p 2intervieinterviewti with mrsmremroamro ellen rose fillmore sister of john H may koyikoylkoylee 19 5 19195fo57 athis3thisthis negative reaction was characterized by peter C carlston chapter iniliIII111 p and appendix IV and fred taddeotadgetadgeo tadge along with his brother philipphiiipphilipphllip supported the mine early and long until its continually promised but non evldeevadeevidencedacednced prodiproductionAction became too much for himhimo after the death of koyle he completely withdrewvn thdrewahdrewjithdrew from the enterprise heaping ridicule upon the mine and all associated fthathjihjthwiflawafla itio interview with wmamowmo F perschon august 25 1961 4 rntantinterviewervleervie v vithwith cartercarrer C 3rantarantgrantgrangyanqyan june 19 19591959.195919590 123

rrirlL far eobeoughenouhoeoughugh by the tiraeirnetimebime of his death 0omesomegome years later he

M i y livorceddivorceddivocpdLivoreedced himself from any idea thathat theh mine would pro

buclducl 0

perhaps the motnostT tried of all were the bembemembemember of koylesboyles immeddimmed atelate1 familiofamilyfamilyo theme long yayearsrs of comparable poverty churchchllrchlor h opposition

and relentless ridicule by unbelievers6believersunbelieversun tended to0 o make theirthein livestives rather mlina erablerabberab1erabico k-kolesolesies wife gave vent to such feelings oron aneaoeone occasion when she saidgaidgaldsajdssajda

1 Ji havei ave wishedwashed many limestimesbimesdimes and so havhave the chttdchildrenren that leidiadladirid rieverneverneger had a dream about the mountain iindandundnd thet he oreorcooreo vr aaseeasca rs nnowow lvelwewe have had people coming to oorourr hobehollahomehollqe at iustusins eager to learn allailali about the latestlatent detailsdetallso some IPV chilehuefhile ototherslersleyskeys x14iculerictlculeo itsleslos bnbeeabnn no fjjfxiaxi 1I1 candan an tell couoyouyouo tj e t oliialdrennilnildrencaldrendren have been laughed at irilriIPini schooschool 0 theeheeke statstatee Is try aiigillgabigtantap tcto closeczlosecolose tthehe mine the authorities of the hurehchurchhurehroh are preaching against it they have released john twice from churchurch of fleeficeflees he held and altogether we have had about allalia 11 we can stand 0 sulistill we dont hold any feelings against anyone y for it does look ridiculous and unbelievable aitailaltall right I1 gaessguess T1 wouldnt bellevebelievebelbei leveieve either I11 seeseo so many things it if7 didnt morningPiing traetruebraebrue that john predictpredictspredictsoso

5persehonpr&chon interviewintervlewo perschon was present at this meeting and biabulpulVJLvyawya iffiaentlyjarficientlyn intimate with kiiabakisabakiraballKirakimabaliballbail1.1 to kawknwknow hishl feefeelingsfeelangsree tangsllngsalAngs also pet- ersenersen interview 6aaa A sedlwellwedlitdvedvenvtd known stostortsborystoryt7ta which illustrates this point Is told of a man who was prone to drink tttofcotco excess 0 one day during theth prohibition era heho waswavas beingheing shown the mine by brother koylekoylerkoyleo allalikli points of fnann tetorbttorbaterestrestnest were shown him and as they carieearleeaniecame out of the tunnel koyle asked retipwetipWewcljtIP brotherbrothersbrothebrotherjrj what do you think of it looking down from the mouth 01of theT h ttunnel one has a complete view of the valley below 0 pointing to thefhehitebite vast fields of riripeningpening grain in the valley the man answered see tc r fildsflfeildsds of grain down there see that fine stream of water you hathaltr terehetehere I11 thithlthinkak that with that grain down there and this water up berrberc your mine would be a wonderful place for a whiskey still 11 koyle faldfaidad rotherbrotherbotherbooher yoayou dont have the spirit the man answered 1 I would if TI1 had a stillsilbtlbit LI up here 1tat

7 pierce op citojcitopcigoj Ppo 15 121124

one can hardly contest the facfactfaceyace that ttee breawdreamddreawteamream M n has9 benbedbeedbeen loto10tiottocio1.0 rich mans folly koyle started digging a poor man and bfhe deddied a poor irantraninantianoriano he went through many years of opposition and diaioi frfotcotcor a ireambream that for him never calnecalmecame true

apparentrentnent inconsistenciesartjrtin the dream mneminelmindlamne 3 irrespective of the apparent good will existingexistlng b eo krykrkhyabyekbyembyey e and many of his contemporaries and aside from bhethetche infreindrein fre numer ous stockholders and relatives were inclneineereineeseinesincereere dedidedddedicatodeddcatodedleatedcatoeuhe nd paplepcple there exists a nibernumber of rather obvious contradictions inn thisthithl s xtylgit vearoldvearyear oiaolaoidold narrative which warrant the honest consideration al81 t interested persons the following are indicative of thebhe sagestedhagestedsligge&ted tygjerifjb

1 1 assay reports

A major assertion of the koyle mining company wiiahlwhlwhiwilwll ij is representative of all periods of its history is the insiinslinsistentstenestencskene 1 thatkhatt ha sundrygundrymundrymunary ore samples varying in value from as iittjlittlee as a ra e ir5nan tneanef ne aseageastaseage of some rare metals to as much as 600 per ton for gold have bvbnabnea 1 akeoae from

n the mine and are suggestive of the values to be fcandfouadfoujd thentheheethemhec-o Dink an article published january 24 1933 in the salsaisaltsaly lake tjT j bunbon roylkoylkoyle ustedlisted 8Q many of the assay reports for his company whiwrhjkhh tend t jorfjim this claimcialmchalmclajm however a carefuldarefulqareful investigation of the samplingsajnsarnpling and assaying performed by independent sources or sources other than mining prypryonnelpeapeu bonnelonnelsonnel indicate that in all but two cases the findings claimed by the company bereverepetewere irin no

Q isalt8saltsaltsait lake tribune january 24 1933 p blB l1 aistaletalecaisoalso brooksbybrookabybrook4byBrookaby interview and appendix IX containing koylesboyles rep1yrepayrep ly t drdro pack h-

125 saynayway substantiated or Justifiedjustified9justifledolledo99 As repartedportedreported in chapter titlitlitIIITII111 several official investigmonigagmonoonoooMon were undertaken by the state securities cammicommicommission1 l &liontionilon to determli the validity

of periodic claims which issued forth from the mine kndicatiindicafciogtigrig the didisc-

overy or near discovery of valuable mineral deposits a at- noE 0 o tdmadm ddidyd these authorized inquiries find any retiab1ereliableliable evidence whlhwhiatwhict lruiluiruaru aed

that the values in questquestionlonion were tommerialytommercommerccommercenalyIalytailytally presentC IDr ne rna

fact little more than a trace to no mineralization at alxaixallalaaixajl wawar 3 Vd lucernucernerrrv able in most cases in addition to the above seveseveralraira1raa unofficial bbutut reasonreasonablyabipbly un-

biased investigations of the koyle property were made during the6 alleged

boom period from 1929 to 1945 kenneth Cco bulledbemock actingaclang head of t-thetuehe

9 athe9thethe two exceptions consisted of analyses performed by juniusjumiusRLnJusniusniue Jjo hayes of the university of utah and john Mmo ekstplmeyerstehmeyerbesteljneyer of proproveprovovo hf aheahoaae elayesclayeshayest determinations indicated the presence of gold at the ratereterabbrahb of 1700 O and 8008080.80 per tontonetono although his results were cited by koroyiekoyleyieyle they are not contested not only were his findings negligible butbur hihis workwonk wabwas under taken as a personal matter a-arldandrid not at the request ofr thetueshe compcompacompaniocompanyoanyoky leilealete from junius J hayes to scott P stewart dirediyedirectortoytor of the arahghan1rahjtahlrehiren securities commission december 24 1932 located irin the tilafilatilesfilesylla of udeVDCvom Surlsurlriesuri rie 1 commission after an apparently careful examination of the mine proper bestelmeyer had several tests run on a few samples he obtalncobtainedd from different locations in the tunneltunnelotonnelo his findings ranged in vivitievitlevaluetietle fro-fromtromm hiohlo1004 ioloo to 5505 50 prper ton in gold in referring his results to the risbisbigeishopEibishopshopho jo h further encouraged him by stating if the metametalmesalmetah production of thee world depended upon the ability of the geologist and tthee diniminiminiriminingdiningng erlerteolerlneerneer the major part of civilization would still be wearing dreelbreechh clotisclotclotbsclothebs living in log hatshuts and getting their daily existence with bow and axartoarroerroro and as a matter of fact timatim natural disintegration erosion and olaoiaoldoid man dig more are the principle factors surrounding every mining camp discovered up to date the geologist is persistently put upon the defensive for the simple reason that mother nature writes upon the vaults of hertierlierller hidden riches a message in a language unknown to those scholarly book readingd g so called engineers I1 maintain that a prospector with 8a jachjackjackassass3ss for a partner will find more ore in a place in a given length of time thanthan aihailall the geologists in salt lake city saltsajt lake trl11ributribimeTribime fantanjano 24 19331933.19330 p blebiebloB 1lo these and accompanying statemestatomestatementsntsants by bestelmeyer derrirderrerdemonsdemongn t 1 ate suph a bias in favor of the company that one is ledled to questirnquestioni th vav&validity1 AJatr4tr of his conclusions 126

geology department at the brighambrighom young university reported that he mimadeadeyde3de several trips to the mine during this span of years and at no time did he discern the presence of ore bearing rock of any kind let alone gordgold bearing ore instead of finding some evidence of pyrite and ignitusignlousignious in- trusionstrusions which are normally present in any serious gold seeking operation bullock reported that he detected nothing more than simple lime and sand stone formations in rich abundance numerous carefully analyzed ssamplesamplestes indicated no mineralization whatsoever during one visit to the mine bullock and his group of two dozen students and faculty members were shown twenty one gallon crocks vwhichwhich propqrtedlypropprfedly contained quantities of highly valuable concentrateconcentratesoso several gold buttons on display before the visitors were said to be chent cally isolated samples of the crocks contents A request for a sample

of the concentrate was refused nevertheless one of the students wasWQQ successful in secreting a suitable amount from the property and a later analysis revealed that it did not vary in the least from other limestone 10 samples taken near the mouth of the tunnel during the same visitvisitomisito dredrodr robert bradford one time head of the geology department of the university of utah visited the mine in 1914 and again in 1929.192919290 on both occasions under the direction of koyle he obtained representative samples from the various workings his resultant determinations caused him to conclude that the mine could not possibly contain valuable ore there was he said a better chance of striking it rich by digging in his garden spot or by refining the sweepings from the streets of salt lake city

10 interviewintezviewintex0view with kenneth C bullock june 27 1961196lc 127 than could be hoped for by continuing the program then underway on the 11 koyle property D

2 early production assuming that koyle actually received some fformorm of manifestation in 1894 there is reason to believe that he was originally infinformedormed that his efforts would be crowned with immediate fruition his verified silsijatementsstatementsatements of that period the place where he initiated his project and the limited number of persons involved each tends to substantiate this assertion his point of beginning was supposed to lead directly to the previously envisioned ore bodies and his original partners participated with the seemingly legitimate understanding that their quest would be reasonably breifbreaf rather than the drawn out spectacle that it has since 12 become

3 purpose of thpohpth mine koylesboyles concept of the exact purpose of his mine was very fluid and tended to change as often as convenience or conditions made it advisable his original understanding for example was much mormore limited than in later years otherwise it would have been foolhardy and uncon- vincing to work the claims with a handful of men expecting at any time to hit the high grade ore he had reportedly seen and still supsupposeposel as was later taught that the worthy poor of the church would have their suffer- ing relieved that the church would be removed to jackson county missouri and the church and nation would be redeemed after having succumbed to

ilbradford interview 121 see chapter II11 appp 19192020 128 13 bankruptbankruptcycyseya evidence that these and other parpurpurposespurposesposes of the mine verewere not orbriginaoriginaoriginaligina with the project was demonstrated after 1909 bytoyboy the aggressive and defdefinitelyi4itely more philanthropic invitation which went beyond the limited3jml tedbed circle of close associates to all members of the IDSLDS church to come and enjoy the rich harvest which was just around the next rock lack of success and mounting expenses to this date made an extension of the plan andariaarla purpose of the nineminenanemane imperative from 1910 until early in 194 the purposed services of the tuidertuidertakingimdertakingtaking were definitely oriented to the temporal needs of the latter day saint church and its members however after 1945194194515 as the pressure of the church opposition increasingly bore down upon koyle and those ac- tively engaged with him this philosophy experienced substantive mod- ficatificationsions in the minamindmend of the old dreamer by the time of his death in 1991949 a near outfaceaboutfaceababout rface had occurred the manner in which koyle began giving vent to his discordant feelings at the regularly held thursday night meeting is indicative of this change he is quoted as having told his people on several occasions dongdont you worry about what them fellers up there church authorities have to say jest listen to what goes on right here and youll be all rightrightsrighto all the boys here are members of

13 13christensenchristensen report P 4 also fink interview brooksby interview questquestionnaireiqnna3re nos 151 5 7 8 11 13 and boyer interview boyer related that just before koyle died the two of them were in conversation while traveling between provo and spanish fork on this occasion he was informed by the prophet of the dream mine that the koyle company would one day establish a bank which would be the only one operational in the country and as such would rescue the U S government from financial bondage 129

tfllouloic fhujlh ifaf1f they entantwant to pay a uttielitt11e tithing on what they ggittt theha Iss 14 li ji 41c chlo211charchurchuoChLOriq211h will gitogibo in july 1946 in an interview with the noted foifoiklorfulklorlstklorist dr austin fife kofilekoylekoyile stated thatbhat in his last directors tnctingiiiceting one of the directors interredinferred something to the effect thatthai the

mine would pay off for the durpospurpospurposee of rebuilding jackson count jr missourimipsourlp as the rentralcentral stake of zionzlonoalono he thereupon ppatputut thlsthisthibahls individual straight

1 by rerriberrircrnijndingindinganding him that it was the chur hsKs job to reboldrehrebrebboldmhdld theuie elenClenewencleatracentralclentratra l stakstabstalsslais C r mon were a&ked nff zionnon not the minesmineo however V if an individuaindividualindividuaiI stockholderstooklaolder asked 15 1111idir d felt inclined to do so he ouldwould be free to contributeoontrj buteo ft11 Is not suggested that the philosophy allaliailalludedtided to here Is repre- sentativesentapentantatliretivehive of the present directors of thetche company it was howeverhovhowrever that of theiche bishop during the several yealyeayearyearsr s previous to his death

114ll significance of the original shaft perhaps the most confusing aspect of the koyle venture isJs the ilaLiAunlialunlealliatindtind excavation which wanders some 14001400 feet from its portalpontal to an chartedunchartedmn point in the waterlogged mountainmountainemountainomountaino the lone lentercenter ofiff activity

14 interview with mrmroamro and mrsmcs wendell rigyaigyriobyrhoby provo utah augastaugust ioloiai010.10 1961 rigby and his wife were authorized by the church tofco ajitvjit the iursdaythtirsdayth night meetings and obtain information preliminary to trying koskoykoylele ffotforT his membership apparently sufficient evidence was tamedfamedobtainedob in addition to what was aireadyalready known to initiate thetche calling of totwo Cburchchurch coartscourts one in 197a947 and a later one in 19481.94819480 see chapterchapt er liilit17III111 appp yilyll511156i5656

15fife OPopo citowcitopcitecito p 6

16 seesecseq appendix ilII11 i-

during the twenty year period from 1894189.4184 tot o 19114191 thhee sshaflshaaltaft hana bcdoedocd in complete disuse since that timetimeo it isi presently filled with ilrlirlinclr rubble and rotten timber to sodesoinesorresomesorne anl5b ini blebie poipolpoincpoin1nj aaongaonaaanglorlplorap 11 extexeex rtrniteernlteernst 0 when first startedstarstantd it was intended thatha these wkingworkings a kij cj lead tcto and be the means of cobtaining the euvisenvisionedionealoneatoned dealtwealtwealthh io I1 r wherewhere within the confcontconfinesines of the momountainmountainemountainomoununtaintainoeaino koyle stated owaioaowaomaomuioa 1 thathatt he waswa plainly shorshomshoy the natarenaturenatarp ofor the formoonformraorforjormoon arijriui chiotwhiothirhirehic- ane1 nee rarecarere

would be found at the bottom of thisthigtm shaft-o however ht did rofnot know 171 7 the exact depth at which it vaswas locatedLodloaloafed tedfeafed t ap-arrearsappearsrearspears tlikely1 ke L tithat the koyle people would have continued along thisthib 40014001 foofootrootzoot1 oarseourse had notnu

seepinseepingseepinfefe water in unmanageablee quantities foforcedircedarced them to reiretirojrfjrr at ihlihithl time 19141.914igi191 it was determined that a thlrdthirdthard tunnetunnel 1 shaidshaldld bcbe drlvendrivendalven 1ritcinintt the mountain with the hope of intersecting the shaft draldraidrainingrdngordng off the water and abandoning it as an access med-mediumlumium itsits new and previously un revealed significance was to seiveserve as a source of ftreshfreshfrr esh air farfortax th laborers going forward in the then anticipated and prearbeprbeseninilyA y completed tunnel in spite of the claim that theth end of the tunnel isLs d1rectldiretjyy below the bottom of the shaft no serious effort has been made to conrcorlrje t

the tvotwotwoogwoo in view of the fact that there were nfnumerouskrouserous timesumetimes bebethet twenawen1 e 1920 and 1981919488 when koyle was certain that the mine wooulduldouidwould begin prodprodiproducing1 icing itft isLS perplexingly difficult to understand why this exextensiontensilon wawas not attempted it would appear that foresight rather than the spirspinspiritbpiritIJ of r elation precluded such a venture lest the water and debris from abaveaboveab ve

ti should burst forth and make a nightmare of a dredreamam aalmost1most come true 0

17 grant 0 8 11 po jaoigo op citcitacitjZ p also chapter ftp1tp p 19j9o 1312311312312.31 the question that the writer poses theretthereforeore Is simply thisthithl was there actually any sense in utilizing twenty yearb timebime and nergyenergyanergy an untold sum of money and the unquestioning devotion of hundreds of believers in furthering a 1400 foot impression along a directionlessdirectiondirectdirectionleosiorilborillessleosess

course toward an uncertain treasure hidden an unknown distance belbeibeltbelpT the surface of the earth for the ultimate purpose of using it asao an OAairir vent for which purpose it has not is not and cannot be asedused thtt ts question is asked with an awareness of the inferred revelation wherein koyle was commanded that modern implements of mining were not to be used that the project was to be completed only when the time was right and

t A thatthar it was to act as a profound test of faith for ailallali associated with filiioito1 0 nevertheless these suppositions do not create a use for this unsight lyay scar which ruptures the mountain side

5 when and by whom should the mine produce koyle firmly taught and apparently believed that he would per sonallybonally direct the venture to its completion contrary to the present teachings of some he said nothing of returning as a resurrected being in case he should die before completing his self proclaimed mission in fact as late as three days before his death although extremely iiilii111 19IQ he insisted that he would not die

18i A brooksby interview also dixon interview june 23 196u196 see also chapter iliIII111 footnote 1

19elsie koyle interview 132

one islb thethereforethereforet eforeafore led to question the tetett timonlmontlmonvtimonyy by koKOPvev e vhreielcelshrei heh asertedseatedassertedb that the lord had shav7nshovenshov7n him on sundrysijndry ocoocoasiroccasionasir not sklyiv that behe should bring his stewardship in but alsealsoaioaloalq thaltwaltwatua ttteatteth ianetuneametamefme wasa thhrr cigt&r ygirr 20PO fortorzorr this to occur the point aatt issue then is did he or did tie not receive this knowledge ftaf1f one assumes thatthotthaekhatkhot he did ardand hnat dleDJPdjpfyf y nagnegnaswasnayway responsible thenthienthlen the continualcontlnual absence of produrtionproductionbroduprodu tion indicateindieatedjiateos ibalihalabal1balba a lord played a ganegamp wivithwith1 th one of hishitehitz children for sixty five madmade a fool out of him wasted his lifeilfeirye on a valueless project andaudana deceived hundreds of others in a like manner continuing this assumption one might conclude that the whole story is a living lielleile an tunadult cratedcerated misrepresentation on the part of the lordlordo koyle dladiadied a disappointdisappolrited ed man truly his god had forsaken hinlhimhini 6 miscellaneous other discrepancies which are less obvious and yet signlftrantsign IF leant are seen in Kokoylekoylesboylesyles claim to revelation from the sanesame source asa joseph smith however whereas smith and those who have followed jrin authority after him were commanoommancommandedoommandedded to keep accurate records and acculmcculaccountsints of allaliailaai that transpired within their organization 21 koyle was supposedly told 222 to record nothing lest he fall in the process 0 smith set iti t forthforth as the order of heaven that only he or his suecsuensuccessoressom as president ouldouidnoidouidnold re

ceideceive revelation for the welfare of the whole church 1oyloyboyroylekoyleLE on theshe4 ht otherottier

20 see chapter II1111 appp 293529 35

21 2doctrinedoctrine and covenants 13271327j 28121328121.32812281213 1313c

22 pierce op acitoocitocit p 15 also koyle interlieintervieinterviewv may 5 19571917 1.11333 3

hand niqjntajrdngmalntajx4rig enlightenment of a9 ukeilkelike nature receivedecel ved and prpjiaimialmbalm ed experiences which clearly contradicted this doctrinedoctcinedoetrixi6 therezTherettheretbrthereforebr e one is led to ask whence cometh the revelation of Jjosephseph smihsmith and whence that of john H koyle

A final question conconcernserns the scenes presentpresentiypresentay being eraerbgra 4edaedded under the directdirectionJon of tho relief mine Comoomcompanyparry there is no lnjwnknjwnknown ld cation that koyle ever considered the ore dump as a poipoferaiajentlaentiaentiaaentinaa sauesaunsounouyeouree ofut wealth aichhichwhich would await discovery until the time was right for the mine to produce therefore no precedence can be established in the wordsvorasvordywordy or dreams of the bishop waichwhichwasch will justify the current efftefateffortrt to btajrj funds for the developing of the mine by way of the marketing of a coecomme- rcial soil conditioner refined from the ore rejects located at the dumpduapodumpo 23 further the recent emphasis being placed on the possible existentexisteneexistenceexistene of several rare precious metals located inn and about the tunnel is a departure from the original declarations of koyle which were concerned directly and only with goldgoidogoldo his liberal use of the term rare was in reference to the chemical composition of the ore in which the gold woulawould be found and not to an abundance of foreign yet undiscovered lnvaluiniraau 24 able mineral locations

the dream mine an outgrowth of moonmormon culture one can speculate considerably as to the identififationidentificationidentifiidentify pation and sosoalesouray e of the impulses which directed john H koyle along the strarostrarstrangelyge 1 y unertlunortlimorthobo dox pathpatlapatia he followed during the major portion of his life the writer

23seesee chapter VIII appp 114115114.115114 115 24 ibid p 114 134 lihasts drawn attention to several definite possibilities which may be part 25 of the answer but there are others that merit consideration

1 1 revelation mark you this bassanioBassanio the devil can cite scripture for his purposes an evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheekcheeky A goodly apple rotten at the hearthearts 0 what godly outside falsehood hath 26 R kent fielding in his work the concept of stages in mormon historical development it asserts that although a number of obvious changes have occurred in Mormontmormonismsm its fundamental premises are still intact one such premise which has gone unchanged is the doctrine of revelation which isie described as extending from direct visitation to considered common sensedsensesensessensep if fielding concludes in his article that although speaking in unknown tongues has died out and one cannot visualize president david 0 mckay making use of a seer stone 11 revelation is still a vital 112727 principle 9 As conceived by joseph smith and his successors revelation is the knowledge given to the membership as associated with the gospel and the church it has its origin in the holy ghost and is received through this medium dependent upon the recipients obedience to the gospel of jesus christ As received it normally deals with items pertaining to the kingdom of god the individual membertomembersomemmembersberso or the church as a whole it is

25 see chapter II11 appp 9129 12 chapter V and VI 260 william shakespeshakespeashakespeareShakespe 3reare the merchant of venice act I1 scene 3 27 27rR kent fielding the concept of stages in mormon historical development MS 1958 located in the brigham toungroungyoungvoungxoung university library 135

jumcd that when thus obtained it represents the mind and Awiliwill11 nff god 28 ALtalthoughhoughbough its history is1 characterized by unusually capable leadership and a well defined religious philosophy there has existed neirneverthe-erthe less within the latter day saint church a nearly unremittent urderrurimdercur rent of discontent which has led to the formation of numerous factions both 29 within and apart from the mother organization information gathered fromtromeromprom the available history of the men responsible for these off shoots indicates that various aspects of this concept of revelation espe-especiallylallycially the doctrine which teaches that every member has the right to manifest- aionsafonsations of the spirlspiritt in some form and to a degree is obliged to receive 30 themtheril are partially responsible for their apostasy in fact it is quite possible that had the church been orthodox christian not be- lieving in modern revelation there would have been little justification outside of personal differences for the defection of any of

28Q 28 18 8 .9 doctrine and covenants sections 2045 281828118.181 4323432 3aj3j 1288 9 13229 and 12817 18 As cited in reid bankhead A stadystudy of the meaning of the terms inspiration and revelation as asedused in the church of jesus christ of latter day saints unpublished masters thesis dept of religion brigham young university 1949 appp 7117 11 29 some authorities have determined the number of such groups to be in excess of one hundred russelrrusselaRusserusserlR rich those who would be leaders provo BYU extension publications 1959 p 30 ibid appp 1791 79 also doctrine and covenants 93931ione1 l- oneon leading church authority made reference to a specific faction as a pack of misguided liars petersen interview other contentsdiscontentsdis have been variously described as slinking dogs barking greedily at the great caravan of the kingdom as it rolls unalterably toward its ultimate goal or asag jackalsjackalajackals and coyotes on the horizon which are of no particularnopartioular concern to the great marching army of the lord or as rabid dogs which would wound and destroy some members of the church bruce R mcconkie how to start a cult 1 MS iggi1961 ppe 131 3 copy in the pos session of the writer 136 31 lesetesethese men and their following the hishistorytory of the koyle relief mine suggests that itji might well be considered as representative of these splinter inorelnoremovementsmenksments As has been noted koyle conceded that joseph smuamusmith h was a propprophethei and then unwittingly proclaimed spirspiritualitualigual manifestations which were not in harbarharmonyhaemonymony with the doctrines taught by smith and those who have followed timhimbim in an asserted line of authority his apparent desire to experience things of the spirit as encouraged by his faith plus a later pride taken in the prophet image which surrounded him possibly led to his departure from the orthodox patterns established by church authorities in this 2 area 32 unlike the other malcontents however koyle did not lead his

31 with but few exceptions those individuals who have inspired schismsschisma within the church have jujustifiedstifled their actions by claiming authority from god through purported spiritual manifestationsmanifesmanifestmanifestatmanifestanttationsat ionslons their number is typified by such men as wyman clark isaac russell oliver olney and gladden bishop before the death of joseph smithsmiths as well as sidney rigdon james J strangstrange charles B thompson james C brewsterbrews ter joseph morris william Sso godbe and maurice L glendenningGienglendenning thereafter rich op cit appp 176176.1 76 if one accepts the premispremisslasas represented by the LDS church that man can and does communicate with diety and that such communication is good ftt logically follows that a like inter- course with spirit powers of an opposite nature would be conceivable to deny the reality of the one would require the dismissal of the other assuming that the revelations received by joseph smith and his successors were from god then all those secured by the dissenters from his organization were likely spawned by the evil intentions of delusive spirits

32 while discussing his purported visions koyle would often attempt to reassure hisbis listeners by referring to the fact that spiritual manifestations were indelibly a part of the religious philosophy of the LDS church he emphasized however that his experiences were limllimitedted to mining and that he did not presume to receive divine guidance for anything except himself and his company fife 22op citeiteltcieiteltt p 3 137 flock from the security of the fold very uniquely hishigis alxlx oledolad

10 or more believers with but few exceptions have been ableabie lol 0 o recon iteitelie11c

their allegiance to the mine and its prophet with their aiteglancallegiance 1 c

their falthfaithfaithsfaithe they have accomplished this so effectivelyeffertleffertheffertifertl vely thathat only F spieaspsaspicalaiieA11 number have given up the latter because of a preference for ttteattet h formerform6rform ro 2 wealth gold mines

on julyjullyjuliy 24 1847 Brigbrighamhaan young the modern mo jt mormon ism led a company of his people into the great salt lake vaieyvalieydalieyvaley on this day and in this dry desolate almost uninhabited region the then

hoped for great basin kingdom of the cormonsmormons had itsity humble beg1r1begtnolngolingiArging among the problems facingthisfacing this infant empire during itslbs earlypatlyearly years in the basin was the 1848 discovery of gold in CaJIcaliforniafornia earearlyIy in 1847 while nearing the green river in southwest wyomingWyom ng youngsyoungs party whmet sam brannan who was returning east to meet them after hahavingliing 33 arrived in california from new york via the water routeroweroge Brbrannerbrannorbrarmonbearmonannor en- couragedcouraged the mormon prophet to continue west to caldcaidCallcaliforniafarniafornia giving a red ibieible verbal description of that land young however refused main tainingbaining that california would not serve the needs of his isolatesolatibojauonlonion conscious people this firm resolve was threatened howhowarhowvrvrver by the

1 gold fever which overcame a considerable number of the saialsainlsalntb1 s r1uringlullui ing he summer and fall of 1848 coupled with the already existent desire of some to journey to california it created a situation chicwhbwhic h eveevent us llyilyliy

33leroyleroy R hafen and carl coke rister western america enbeenggenglenge wood cliffs N J prentice hall inc 1950 p 339 brannan headed a group of about 238 cormonsmormons who had chartered the ship brooklyn and sailed from new york on feb 4 1846 arriving in san francisco bay on july 31 some of the group moved to the stanislousstaniStanl sloussious river and started the town of new hope from here brannan journeyed east to meet the overland cormonsmormons coming west 138

compelled the churchunchurchch leaders to take a specific stand oli011m thtin plaphaphealaedleeplaedlagE of wealth in the growth of the individual and the development of 1hetheahet h kingdon of god

in october 1848 president young addressed himself to0 o bv sub jeet by reminding the people that the availability of food and drink was of greater value than the accumulation of goadgo1dgoldo he drew belrbeirfreirfbeir afabaabna snen tion to the fate of the spaniards who came from the old world irin beanoean6earfth of wealth and had been relatively unsuccessful in contrast to theth engljhenglehengllsh who dedicated themselves to the tilling of the land and the establishing 34 of industry waxing strong and powerful in their efforts young lent strength to his position by statingstaistalingsstagingsstag ings some have akedasked me about going leozeoto californ2californicalifornia I1 have oidoldtoldholdhoid them that god has appointed this place Lthe great basinabasin7basin for the gathering of his saints and you will do better right here than you will by going to the gold mines some have thought they would go there and get fitted out and come back but I1 told them to stop here and get fitted out those who stop here and are faithful to god and his people will make more monemoneyy and get richer than you that run after the god of this world and I1 promise you in the name of the lord that many of you hatthatt go thinking you will get rich and come back will wish you had never gone away from here and will long to come back but will not be able to do so some of you will come backbarbac batbut youroufour friends who remain here will have to help you and the testrest of you who are spared to return will not make as much money as your brethren who do stay here and help build up the church and kingdom of god they will prosper and be able to buy you twice overver 0 353.5 here is the place god has appointed for his people 0 0

34 second general epistle of the twelve journal history of the church october 12 1848 As cited by eugene E campbell th mormon gold mining mission brigham young university studies provoprovepr ovo brigham young university press 19601960 appp 202120 21

35 taken from the autobiography of james brown salt laklake citcitycuyocihyy igi19119411941. P 122 As cited by campbellcampbeli 139

1849 A year later in september of 18491849 the brealgrealgreat 0 oionizeroiooizr refer-referee-refet deedred tobo the abjectsubjectsdbject once again but on this orcastoricasloriorrasloaorrasornascas loaionlori after reareafreatreafnoning his convirconvairconvictiontlonlionalonkion that a comfortable life inn thetyte valleyva leytey gaiciraicivoialdvonald prove farfak more ductsuctrucresfulessful than a misermiserableablIeabife existenceexiste ncenee inn the gold fleldsofields hehp ten

ceredpered his position by stating 0 0 when tneane salutssaintssatnts shall have preached

the gospel raised arainerainbraingrain and built apup c itie boughnough thehe lord vitiwiil 3papop t-tjj uuoupo the way for a supply of gold to thehhbhe peifpertt t satsaksarstasatisfasarsaastasfaisfasta tiontfokitafoki of hiti pl rp until then let them not beb over arixanxiousiouslous for thehe treasurestrpasureb of the rarttantianbifanttfantifarm

are in thezheuhe lords storehouse and he wj 11LA1 open thetuietule door thereof when 6 and where he pleasepleases 11

some years later young expanded on thisshizshin amsamesamssame thiemehpmctjiemel saying

some I 1 of the brethren think the saints ought nnot1 to behe rlri h 9.9 and they have their various fivelingsoeldneseidnese11ngs youyon kovkowknow ththrerp is a certain class who are fearful of getting the good things of lifetifelifellee saying the lord has rhosenrhobenchosen ththe poor in weaitwealthth and the rich in faith my feelings lead out to obtain every gboodgoodod thing we can obtain as a people the gold the silver the flooksfloolisflojks and herds and to build beautiful cities if we have sub-u b stance given us of the lord it should be devoted to building up his kingdom upon the earth the earth and the kingdomkingdom thereof will be given to the saints of the mrmostmoshst high god wn theykhey possess gold minesminers and the treasures of the earth Yyesymses but some cry out it that is not yet thattbatabat Is mightrighto how inrig w11 right at it be until then As soon as we are prepared to receive hedhemthedthem 3t31 in 18791879. charles W penrose gave the subject a distinrdistinedistinctivetitive pporor o photic flavor as he asserted no doubt there isib plenty of goigolgoldd hid up in the recessedrecesses of those grand old mountains that surround thehe saints as a buwaj batbutbahbubbuh we hope it will remain sleeping in itslis1 fsas quitquiequielquietl restingrestr ingtingfing piaplapta eseg

3 6historyhistory of brigham young lvisMSIVIS 1849 p 144 As ccitedcited by campbell

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141110C and nelerneer peep fofor4fordfarjforjrJ foto gazega upon thefhe fatefa of day unt11un 11 the saints hahaveve so developed themselves thatthai its comingbooming forth willul hibt no bar tot o their progreproeresprogresprogress buthurtburdbudd that the gold of this orldoridhorldhoridvorld mayma be a servant untountun 0 them and be used for those purposes for which the lord designated itito when the time comes thatnhat the gold J s nenecessarye s sary for the further extension of the Kingkingdomdomo theh lordtord uiowiomiovito hasbasbbs guided thmtherticherti wthertoWtulitbill hertoher will show

w I1 n f n 1 godT them lertlerkterk and hntio hajnobtaintajn ttjt 0 0 0 0 tbth saseinesInt s of iliill111 bye and bye possesp j allailali uiediethefheute gold 1nrafrltnaana Qthevchevmleyley aan0 veselyv1selyislaislv useuseo it wallw1lllilill111 PdivgivI1 ve ththemcm mu h power among fthebhee v 1 kded and greafgreatgrgatreat influence among they af 1 nat n bibutbuh thy will not i3robip it 19 nodnorno st theirthelm 1 heheartsa rt s upuponon itoiroI1 1 thfhlrfhyrli pjbllcpubl bjjiljngbulldjrgs villm glitterglatter jiljiwiljiUutt h thebheth pr-douAaouiou mefaiddeflmeflmefimedaid itjt iiiliiailiil nrornamnadnam fairiainfainfpir manfmansior3ac7c rs arlaaridanclarua shine upon thitfultth it tablestableso b-botf Hs ir mosyosttltilnugrignignjg heautybeautyneauty villviila bebp beenseeriseeniseen in C 1 templff godT r ti urbaanuxjdan the gratgreat tmpiampi of ournu od an r 0 n i iti atabundancee and excellent vorkworkworkmanbhpmanghir 0IT wj11wj 1 bzazb djsdiplavedlayedbayed to0 bebeautifyaut gy this sanctuarysantuarvaluaru and mak theth place ofoj hi fetfebfeet gloriogloriousouso 3

again that sadesamesamp yyarear he standsstando IJ1 hophope to1 iseeee thehe I1limetimebimeame when v latelaiterlafedatelaitey davday saint viltvilay11aill have pietyalerypieryplerypletpietplerpietopiero O y and thetlle timesimeime willvj 11 odetodeometomecome sherrewho god villwillwiilvilh give untzunto his people all tthe wewalthwaithalflialali theyt he dcdesiredesiresire butbuiblatblai thatoat vildwl11LJIL be when t at an thefi i knoknot i hovhownov tfr u4t it night and abenwbenfn tuftug ir hearts atearear right and stsefsetget lipontiponup jn thehe iririviv naf7f thehe trirrdiradrd wdendeodandtirfirthehp oucouncilunnianAAunna of hishib andlandi whenwh Y behe useusn e hlohio hl and thedivuiv wiilwillI1 vnyup09 to it forfo his alrygiorglryglor addand thrahrhr pingtipingtielfingjipingfing of llisitisbishis ra 0 aloalsoaisoaioatso in 1879187 orson0orn rn FHIpaipah I1 t addresadjsced himself to thathe topietopict pic as he

t informed bishisbih lisilisienalisienchytenprbeneenc rs asehablj injok mihe sajjtsajjaS H iaklaklurelakeluke tibe ruialeaaleaaa9 ae1e thothotthof when the timelimetolmetoime vaswasad right frt r ti- sdntssants tot iubltiubelt theshet b lands of jajacksonksonakson

V i 0 cccountbuntysuntyzunty theytb aoihoiuoiauldculdid hiharehave tLn w rjj C dC Efco J t jjgjago W hi woundft om about behp did noononodO kr-io littln it- vazwazao fbi181lal he1 f4fa jd31 uishisnis audlnz thatthet

0 0 boord wt uup 0 tcthe lrdloord alilwlil1l dendpnpenpenppn mi ont dicing grgoilgoldid ed silver or in slomeskomem atlctlc1hrcohr fterafter saywaya as seedseemfbseemse mfhmthmahfb tot i xaimalmlmim behnbeboletole to bealhhea14ealhb wiliwill bfbe

Q 38J Wwo hariescharlesharips hezirpezirP truooss gold miromirmtrminmino o laiteria ter dadazdaj millennial61 statstarstax XXIX september 1.1187979 Ppo 619gloo anropnropnno wassagwagas an earlyearleariSiLysily61onvertconvert to thet he rhierrhiur h knoynov bezbaribarlb- anleanieaji oricon of irji bithit spokespokpmenomeromeno re served asa a councilor in the fir sf frePneprepresidensiden frumfrom gla10qia trr 3925j92o 39 journalL ut ditdiocourdloDio cour eklxklxx1 Ppo0 5bo0 i

ikiibliblibi141 poured into the laps of the latter day saints until they will scarcely know what to do with it 0 I11 will here again prophesy on the strength of former revelations there are no people now on the faefaceyaeyace of the earth so rich as latter day saints will be in a few years to tomecometomeo having their millions therefore they will purchase the land build up cities towns and vil- lages and build a great citycly at headriheadquartersheadqi arters in jackson county missourimlsMis sotiri 0 jnsquntonseqaenfly jv when ongres&men2origressmen and statesmen and the great men of ouroum rodroanationionlonaon1on want to know what the future destiny of the latter dayda saints williai3 I1 htateabe letietletlehieh themtriem remember the words 1 of your nuinhurnhurdnumblehumbleblebiehie servant jhcwhlwhcl dashasbasdag addressedaddre sd youyon this ahernoonternoonafternoon40ternoon forror they will ome t3tato pabpas theythe wiil be P11ft1ledfujfjjlpdo 40 it is doudoukdoub tfultaulful that koviekoyle aasvasqasas inalnaunawarewatewaxe of heseuleseuiese and other pro- pheticapheticphet IP teranutteranututtermanteren es chihwhihwhi letlleffjeff littielitilelittle trto rliralirh imagination of the faithful as to the place of waulwealth especialespecially ly woldwoidgold in thefhebhe building up of the kingdom of god on earthraifcho in fatfact heh oftenottenolken argudangudargued that brigham young stood right down here in salem by the poadpond ardaridaroanidano pointed up to this very mountain and said therethere is enough goldgo and silver up there to pave all the reetsstreetsstreelsreeks in utah countycount jy I1 and I1 halehaiehave talked to hovo of the men aj4j who are witnesseswifcnes&s tctot c hibbibbihhilshiis atenrnto

1 ahsuassuassumingbiligmilig that 1t ahe1he0 sorsociallallaiial atmosphere familiar to koyle was weltwellweitveivej versed in sarhsachsuch remurkabiremarkableremarremarkabberemurnemar kabikabbe ded jaratiotlarationelaragione it doedoeldoes not appear unlikely that

an overly eageraapagp r mind nultnuitnulicoiild Yhee raiberrathraiherratherraibnaib r easilyeastly and convincingly persuaded that it should nt rr&1itileitil11 reTI r1ra rerelationuelaoelawela tion butbu aloaioalso fulfill propheprophesypropheoyprophecyooy

john fiho koviehoviekoylehoyie tetiietitite ie Llfelinellfelinelifelinellfelinp of thebhelh dream mine with diedue rprppappq P cdocjucj3t fortor what may or may not lavekave inspired koyle it

waswes the man himself whoho lent weight and momentunmomenmomentmomentumtunmi to this motmonrementmovemoN menfcorementmensco thetniennie

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XXI .9 136 journajjournaljournaeJournalnaj of discodiscoursesirs 9 Ppo looabo1bo136.136 noted aas a competent scientist oreattOryatt Tattpratipratt was also ccnsideredconsideredcrn&idprecl tottofcotco behe 1heahe he foremost theologtheologianlanJan in the churchchurehoortatt 41 i 60 giffife gopo eitcitettto 9 Ppo 142 dream mine epiepisodeepisodesodegode in uatiutah history might havehaire pastgedpa&yed in relirelativeativeactive o- bscurity if any other personality had been the instigator of ltit thisthiis conviction is frequently substantiated throughout the narrative 42 dr reed bradford P former chairman of the sociology dedepartmedepartmentpattpart mentme nntt at brigham young university dr lowry nelson 43j a prominent sociologist 44 and author and dr austin fife the noted folklorist each oreoneonjudrorpjuddorpJuddd

after careful observation that the strength of personality demonstratrdemonstratedemonstrated2dad by koyle was the key factor in the promotion of this unusual social phephen-n omenon although the influences previously alluded to may have motivated the masses as veilveliwellweli as the man it required a catalyst such as the bishop to direct the several stimuli toward a single cause thus cementing a devotion which neither time religious principles nor reason has been able to alter or change to any great extent bradford asserted that koylekoylesboyles power to influence persparspersuadepersuadeaadeuade and convince people inspired a degree of subserviency in the minds of his followers this he said could be witnessed in their conversation with and about him as well as in their prayers wherein they would often thank god for their prophet john H koyle such an attitude of worship was

demonstrated in the extreme when on a certain occasion an elderly4 lady pressed through a crowd which separated her from koyle exclaiming let me touch him let me touch himhimi he can heal me As a resultresuit of the apparent success of her quest koyle responded by stating that at her

kp 42bradford42bradford interview 43 letter from normaricnormacnormwcNormariCmarlc pierce to jamesjarnes R christiansonchrisChrlstianson albaubaigalgaug 23 1962 A copy is in the possession of the writer 44 fieyopfife op cit p 3 143 touch virtue had gone forth from him 4541 this same influeninfluentinfluence vaswas efffcteffecteffect- ive as a medium for securing needed funds as veliwellweilweli as for inducing rev- erentialerential respectrespects besides being a decidedly advantageous cratch which encouraged stock sales whenever such transactions were not legally ad- visablevisable it acted as a 11 magic word which readily produced donations even during difficult times on one occasion two men canvassed several blocks

in salt lake city and collected over 9000090000900.00 simply by eapexpexplainingainixig to0.0 the 46 people that koyle was in dire need of funds koyle possessed an impressive conversational technique eitherelther planned or subconscious which had a profound psychological effect upon his listelistenerslistenersonersO it was of a nature that he could sustain almostelmost unlimited 47 attention of anyone to whom he might be addressing imselfhimselfhhimselfo this device was often effective as a means of inspiring verbal testitestimonymorry from a re-

it luctant follower whom koyle would encourage by exclaiming 10 1 and what else did you hear you saw this didnt you come on teiltellteli asus I1 tell 48 us118us t the degree to which the bishop was able to influence his contemporaries varied in intensity according to the individual and the purpose of their association however one thing seems certain all were effected and in most cases the impression has been of ionglonglongiong duration the answers received fromfroin an anonymous questionnaire which was sent to a

45 bradford interview 46 ibid

474 fifeflyeef ORop cit g p 3 also perschon interview 48 rigby interview b-

144

representative number of stockholders verifies thisthig assertion most conon vincvinevincinvincinglyvincinglysevincinglyinglysglybly without exception each reply reiterated an absolute faith 49 in koyle the mine and the activities of the present board of directors koylesboyles influence continues to dominate the thoughts of these people to the extent that they awaitawalt his return to mortamontamortallyaty as a resur-cear rected being with great anticipation some day it is bellbeidbeldbelievedeved he will return to his rightful position as company president and as a gglorified enlightened personage direct the affairs of the mine to the ultimate fulfillment of all his dreams

summary 50 john koyle may have been deceived but he was no deceiverdeceived lo this is the comparatively objective sunnationmatlonmationsummation of many persons with whom the writer discussed this work it is possible that during the last yearbyears of his life he did and said things5lthings which demonstrated bigotry and inconsistency but this might well be chalked up to sickness of body and mind old age and disappointment it is felt that a certain statement by a friend who Is well ac- quaintedquainted with the koyle epoch suggests an adequate answer to the question being treated he referred to the dream mine affair the bishop in particular as a perfect case of chewing beattle nut

49 V the questionnaire was sent ffifty known stockholders twenty- five returned it with the ten quettquestquestionsionslons answered see appendix X 50 perschon interview 51 A good example of this is the oft stated claim by koyle that james E talmage appeared to him after his death and begged forgiveness for having opposed the minemane during his lifetime koyle described the event as follows he citcrtLITtaimagealmagetalmage 7 followed me aallail11 over on his knees begging me to fargiveorgiveforgive him ut I1 just let him beg I1 was on bhethetche hot seat long enough now lot him suffer rigby interview 145 this he explained referred to a custom in china of hewingchewing the laflarleafhearbear roff

a narcotic plantpiant called beattle nut whenever one has a toothache 0 what begins as a supposedly harmless alternative to a dentdenba1denbahdenba1aa etiairetnair2harhaaha lr usualiuskaliusuallyy results in complete drug addiction the process Is slaw and the slibjesubjectt must be won over but a series of rotten teeth whose irritation Is un-

wisely deadened but not cured soon does the trick the hapless vivictimurdmtr utr having found immunity from minor physical pain eventually finds that helae 52 cannot live without the innocent appearing leaf likewise bishop koyle found momentary satisfaction through a dream which he supposed caldeceidecame as a result of his desire for a testimony sesec- uring spiritual manifestation what appearedtobeto be a just reward of faith in time led to an allailali consuming dedication to unquestioned supernatural directives either real or imagined which compromised values rationalized convictions and deadened reason this narcotic which claimed koyle as its captive made addicts in varying degrees of aliailallali who supported and sustained him the mine the mill and the memory of john H koyle stand as an historic monumentmomument of humnhuman gullibility and blind faithfalth if one is completely indifferent of all scientific appraisals of the mine and examines it in terms of its written and spoken history excluding even bhethe positive and negative religious motives involved then one mastmust logically consign any faith or expectation that it will yet become the fabulously rich dream mine of its founder to a sphere of discernment which transcends reason and good judgment

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McCormcconmcconkiemcconklekiekleXie bruce R mormon doctrine salt lake city Bookobookcraftraft inc 1958 nibley preston the witnesses of the book of mormon salt lake city I1 stevens and walliwallis s inc 1946 roberts brigham H comprehensive history of the church of jesus christ of daydaY S lakeke news press 1930 latter saintsI1 saltsaitt city deseret the book of mormon trans joseph smith jr salt lake city the church of jesus christbaristbhrist of latter day saints 1951 ed the doctrine and covenacovenantsts revelations given to josephsmithJosepjosephhSmithsmith first presidepresident ofOP tthee church of jesus christ of latter day saints with additions by his successors salt lake city the church of jesus christ of latter day saints 1951 ed the pearl of great prip salt lake city the church of jesus christ of latterlatierdatter day sainte 1950 ed 146 d-

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campbellcampbeli eugene E the mormon gold mining missionmissionemission11 BYU studies i9601960 appp 193119 31 fife austin E the legend of the three nephitesNephites among the Morcormonsmormonsmons the journal of american folklore LIII january march 19401.94019019igo 0 appp 141491 49490 partridgepantridge E D the t1tathreebreehreeahree nephitesNephites id one of columbus sailors see them the improvement ekaera XII june 1909 appp 621624621 624

woW Es LXI 1943 taylor 19 samielsamaelsamuelsamwel time and the dream mine esquireVlremre november appp 104108104108lobiob104 108

penrose charles WOW gold mines latter daysaintday saint millennial star XXIX september 1879 619

Newsnewspapershuerspuers the deseret news salt lake cityolty utah the deseret news churchchurch section salt lake city utah the spanish fork press spanish fork utah the salt lake tribune salt lake city utah

interviews

BanbangarterhangarterbangarferBangarferarterbarvergartergarver fred february 16 196179611961796.1196.1 boyer marion april 3 1957 bradford red H june 27 iggi196a1961 brooksby drdredro alienallenailen july 4 1960 bullock benjamin july 3 1960 bullock kenneth june 27 1961 christianson ruben L may 5 1957 dixon quayle june 23 1961 february 16 1962

fink fred W july 4 1960 148

glendenning maurice L august 14 1958XQ19581.958

grant carter C june iglg131919. 1959 hardinghording sterling february 66yay 1961196.1 holten frederick J june I11 19601.960 hughes preston G july 17 1957 jones J bossross june 24 iggi1961196.1 koyle merrill april 28y28 19719571.957 may 5 1971957 july 4 i960ig6oigho koylekuylebuyle elsie july 4 i960i96o perschonPenKhonwhon william F august 25 1961

petersen mark W june 27 1960

pierce norman C april 23 1971.971957.1957 june 27 iggi2961296.1

june 18 1960 pierce stanley 1 rigbybigby wendell august 10 iggi1961 schofield edward august 11 1959 weggeland gail august 25 iggi1961

C weight claud august 14 0.0 11959

unpublished materials articles of incorporation koyle relief mine office of the secretary of state salt lake city utah march 4 1909 articles of incorporation the relief mine company salt lake city utah april iggi1961 office of the secretary of state bankhead reidbeidbeld E A study of the meaning of the terms inspiration and revelation as used in the church of jesus christ of latter day saints unpublished masters thesis brigham young universityuniUntversify 1949

ben bullock file A collection of materialsnatermaterjlalsjuals gathered during an investigation of ben bullock enterprises by the united states securitiessecurlbecurlsecuritides4e&es and exchange commission salt lake city utah ilg149 bullock ben certified statement february 14 1957 A copy is in the possession of norman pierce salt lake city utah carlston peter C letter written to whom itmayirmayit may concern latter day saint church historians office salt lakee city utah 1931 fielding R kent the concept of stages in mormon historical develop- mentsmento A paper read to the hishistoryory section of the utah academy of science arts and letters at weber college ogden utahubah 1958 fife austin ejE mormon collection I1 462 this is part of the folklore collection of dr austin fife utah state university logan utah glendenning maurice L personal letter february 1950 on file at the brigham young university library provo utah grant carter statements addressed to james E talmage september october 1931 copy in possession of author koviekoylekoyle mining company file A collection of materials concerning the koyle mining company in the possession of the utah state securities cpmmisicpmmis&ionon salt lakelak city utah letter from john F warnerwarmer to james R christianson april 20 1957 letter from G gail weggeland to james RK christianson february 1962 letter from norman C pierce to james BR christianson august 23 iq6iiggi1961 new revelations for the book of ellaseliaseilas 1948 located in the brigham young university library pierce norman coC relief through a dream mine 1957 A copy is in the possession of the author of this thesis pierce norman C tletie dream mine story 1958 A copy is inn the possession ofbf the author of this thesis rich russell R those who would beb leaders brigham young university extension division 1959 senisemisemiannualsemi annual conference report of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints april 464 6 1931 stout eveline KX A short sketch of the life of john H koyle nd A copy is in the possession of tethe author of this thesis started hereliere in 1894

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there was 1cumuliumtilt on thehe KIhillsideALside near thekhehe quaint ndnidoid sasalemiem tciracir7wn and thehe canyonscany onsong ulrogdthrongrtd with people climbing restlessresirestryst less up a-arldariaarlaaridrid dovddowndowddowriedowrio crowds nerwerney jostjosljostiingjostijostling ingling n 1therhehe h1ghayshighay&3 for shramstramstrangestramgege riesnews basaabbagvasyabwasvag sped mlong andarid vildwild anguish gripped their fafaestaeses wltlwiilwithwaltlh emolemotemotionlonion depdeep and strangstrcngstrongo like the thunder louds21atids of simmerslimmerstimmer burstingburst ing on bhethefhef he rugged mount so this surging mass of humans beat upon the fortrortressnessmess stout stamped upon thisthibthio mineral mourmounmountaintaintalm grasped its shaggy acorn houghsboughshoaghoug hs cursed thekhehe dadayss of past proprobationbatlonbation cried their discontented howsovowsvowso yea the mingling of these voivolvoirvoicvolc ese Rimirumbledbledbied deep inan rabble throng till youd thought a millionmi11ionmiljion humans cried their indignationsindignations strong moaning master of these riches hark oh see weve Cedinecoinecomeoinedineolne at bastllast I1 hands uplifted beseeching weeping drop some hope for us to grabpgrasp so theythebhe struggledstruggiedstrugbtrubaru biedbledgIed ixpupimp the mountain men and women rough and mildm 1 ld throngerthrongedThronged about a guarded tunnel noisy with vexation wildwilde then a form strode out that portal 1.1 speaking hope for those lnin dread friends like joseph betrayed in egypt I1 give my word you shall be tedfedtedofeaofedo it was shown me years ago fotolksfolksiks how youd rush thisthibthig hilhiihllhill in grief bowing seeking as yoliyou now do asking praying for relief yes I1 saw you bold andana eager saw you swarming ln this flock saw you stoinstorm our mountain fartressofarfayfoyforreseforresbtresso begging feverishly for stockstoko y-

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butbusBu4ua I1listeni sten i1 1 a xorlaorlxoravoraord f orrtfumfoumfortoriorl even olouioligiUiO Ligi youve gossiped laudloudloadoboado d o r 1 ridicohridiculed ourur every etfefforteaf orfort I1 TUTJII 1 oaraurouroanoun head wiwintr-i s rr it b d we shalisnail aaidaldid yauyou from ourgurouy 211i xxeboljebuehu eo Ththougholgh oar slofkstoaksto6k vewe dardaredane noPO sharshur doing dailydallydaltydaliy iarnslurnstarnsturnsaarns of kidaesbklxjdnesz for nc falltmaliemallemalltmalicematicemalloee do ve babar how thetheyy sosorrowedsorsonsorrowerrrowedrowed loloudheunbeunud iaa momojrniogsjrningarning how theytche vilshedi hedbed thetheydhe ydd wie r & t od Listenlistening109log not tctu tleththe mines dcdefamerdefadefamerepfamermerep but securing stokstock as bebestt tkeytheyakeyhey couldjoaiepoaie helping with their inittmitehinitt I1 heinewhe wo dmnkikmnfl r n openingopanoppn ing ancient tretreasaretreasureasusureasareasure sandsadid 9 they would now be shoutdshoutingshoutdngshott ingng citoryVvitoryVi torgttorycryaxycxy inn our celebration otenagrand aquaau

TREASURES OF EPHRAIM

by aftonattonaetonationlonton P waters I1 stood at the open popostaltaital 6 1 of a tunnel pluliarlypeuliarlypeculiarly1 lulivuil atlyariyarly grand the patience required in itsltvlt& digging was famed tlroughoutlhroighout the land and one of an ancient baticnaticnafnat 5 a stood alardgiardguard atabtabb thekheth entry theratherethene hallowed though stern as hahbahbisbibhibhas glageage snow white was his beard andaridarldana halrhjcalrhadehaje with mymv guidegulde I1 enteredent rd theinefhef-he hamber its caverpavernouscavernousnausnous depth to explore and I11 tellteltteitfeltfelltett as I1 hastened forward I1 1 as Ttdd neveneverr ffeitfeltfeihe t behe f v-rc o but TI1 kneknew there was perrperre baftoaftmafi v 1 and lI1 hadbad njnothinghingbinghanghlng Jt feateafeartearr for those wlwithth matmotmotivesmotivebives rfcaia0 were protectprotected pd ir1yay f niggnijg herpbeepneep l54154 near theth wind etate t he end of anejhuejnue tunnelfunnel stood another witwaiwafwithh ssolemn meiamelameinme in steristerlsfceruj vissage and armed with a saabrbre aass he ata tthebheie partaiportai ladhad secsean inn and as we passed onward ardand dowrordd7kyrlward each 1andinglanding wavagwagvasj guarded 1 fhebhehe swesam by curious motive prompted I11 asked friend whawhatwhas lz thy daeraedaale and why dost tthotioiagioia and thy felloufebelloufellowfjilouilowlLouio stand gaardguard at uj s norworkawornorkanorhaborkaworkingskA gs oid perchance in the drdplhdpflqs belowbylow beehehee are encountered t rpa&ares oj god

to my query he thus made answer i son thou has righiright lyjy saidsaidsald for T and my brothers are rernnerltsernneiusernne lusiUs of a nation long since dead ages gone by when we wereere morta Ls these mountains were teeininsteeming with weaitbwealthy and our father was granting oar people peace comfort great riches 5.5 and iealthhealthhealthshealtha

but the pride of theltheitheir r hearts f hey forsook him and worshippedworshipped but nammonmammon alone until their sins reaehedreached upward to heaven and earth neath cocorruptruptionlonion did groan twas then that the spspiritA riirit ceased striving and left in darknessdarkneso and every mans hand smoteomote lsilsi neighneighborborlbors and destruction was rapid and sisurejrejpe

then when the people inn axahaxaqlaluilyiallaliol utlyaluiLyty ideaedripenedr the earth in conrllsiorjconvldbjon lie and the wealth of these nnmo antainslanbains yagasyas hidden form their eevailevjilvj L and covetous eye and the fatherfathers judgments wrenerewere visited on this people so hahaughaughtyugatybty and proadproud coming from sources anthounthounthoughfcight off their destruction was fearyfearfulO and loudloudoboudo the beaithwealthweaithwealth of the mountains of epbphralmiraimbraim thus said the father Is mine and all who partake of its fatnssfatusssfatnessfatus ss shall 0beyobey my purpose divine we are guarding the wealth and tholif workers that corruption shall not aiallurelotelute the toiler aithoithowho enters these abernsaverns with motivemotives untainted aidard pdureparepureure thus therthen is preserved for a peoplepeopled prepared to acrompliacromplishaccomplish hahim lillii the wealth which the father hahas hidden beneath this oaoneeoncee notabipotabixiotablp hidMIJ 155 so I1 awoke from my sleep and my dreaming and sought my companions again batbutut not did I1 see batbut the mountain and the place where my visltvieltvisvig 31 had been but I1 know that the wealth whi h waswaeab jahidden from the people now onderunder the bod must be used as the prophet has biddenbidderbidden for the glorification OF GOD

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43737 seventh avenueA venue salt lacelake city utah jy 13 1933 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

there have been many people ask me why I1 withawithdrewithdrearerew fronfrom tthef kokeykoy lei161 mining company or the dream mine that I1 have written the mairmaimal reannrea3nreasons brr my losing faith in john H koyle as foliofollowsws the first thing that happened that made me tbthinkthinkink something tasaasasias wrong with him was dr james 1E talmage was sent to barlevburlevburley to a conference and while there had an interview with mr kaylekoyle brother talmzftaljnage asked him how are you running the mine he replied 1 I havenave nothing toho do with the running of the mine peter C carlston is ranniranningrunningng it under a contract and I1 have nothing to do with it latterlattenlatsen in the eireninereningevening mrmroamro koyle called me over the phone and explained the talk he had with brother I1 talmage andaridarndang said now if he comes and asks you about the mine telite11fce11 hjhimM the same story it when koyle came down a few days after this conversatconversetconversationioriloriaorl1orl I1 asked him why did you lie to an apostle he said if I1I1 had ntnott done this they would have handled me and closed the minemino and I11 kne they souilsoultwould not do anything to you that fall koyle told me of paying 2500 on the notes that he was owing and said 1 I have more cattle sheep hogs hay and grain than ever before in fact I1 had tcto build me a new granary as the old one would not hold all the grain I1 had he used this as an argunnlargunargumentargumgntnl that he was being blest because he was doing the lords work in the dream mine a about sixty days latter helietietle came to the dinepminepmine and told me llelieheile badhad paid more tithing this year than ever beybeforebeyoreoreone in his lifilylifeilfee in fact he had paid 190 I1 asked dpDQ you keep an account of the money you earn he answered no at tiethetle end of the year I1 ask the lord how much 1 oeaweowe him and he inspires me with the amount

this madmade me commence examining his inspiration and allehilehiiewaflehllewhfle 1.1 did not mention it to anyone I1 saw that it did not harmonize with factsfactsofaciso he told me that while he was getting out of the bath tub the lord revealed to him that he was displeased with the general authorities of the church for permitting the change in the length of the sleeves and legs of the garments and was going to chastisechastizechastize them I1 told him I1 dddid not believe the loralord would reveal to him or anyone else anything against the leaders of the church but wolwouldfidcid reveal it to them direct like he did to joseph smith then he said 1 I saw in the original dream concerning the mine that it was to come out as a rebuke to the authorities of the churchchuroh be cause they were not doing right this 1 knew to be a iceieelcoaco Yr

one early morning inn november 192410241.024 talltatiwhi ieie l- las as 8 n citcif m home he called me at 5 aiaalaarnabinoaoino and asked if I1J j as aak T arlaariaarluaru n ea nirnin I1 was S ion I11 wanwant h Q hatthatt I1 ras he said IJJss isersistersisker lartstonlaristoncarlsfonLartuartCarls fonstongion avaleawakeaware 0 vant hr to fh tootooooooo rt has been shown to mem by the ame spirit h ina130120bviedin0bliedIn 0 rn ilotjh inlninan my we w no 0 yr that one year from today 9 on cifeswifes bibirthdayrjhday ii gratat banquet in the utah hoelhoeihotelhokel elebratlngrelebraing tetheche gettinggeltingge lting ofnt ithebheh t 6 t rfr n i t f m be three or four hundred stocKholdstockholdersersery present 0 J ietiem oj cL pt fat 3 wife and saygay I1 artarham sorry I1 could not be home fartoracroc her oirhdavbirthdaybfrthday bu e hrhetherh r 9 hey w 11 t i of this vision and teiltellteli heihelher to vitesritewritesmite it doindown sc he w li ambrmmbr 0 my wife whispered to me we ailiil only have to wail ons motmor yeaPO to learn if his dreams or trutrue or notnoto trierrieprie ear passed andaridbrid nr herqhecq was held and I1 asked hilmnimhim ariywriywn heh did rionok810ylonot holdnoilhoidnoidnold itsf didandaidald hlii tha hi sj 1 wife said she was not going to makmake a drjjiicbjxi fctuolbuolol afof3f hers Uifo aidbidoidaldold buwW car t 1 f she laakemakeinake a fool out of herself if the lord revealed if t-toc y 0 o it hhows lackjack of faith on yoyourar pattpartpayt in your vjvsinnosionslon

hthe toldholahoid me that drdro talmage had come fto0 o himhir in a dredramdreamam and arldtrldtoldboldboid himmm the mine was true and he coaldcould havehage aayany posulorposdj1oposU lortorr beh varwarwaywatpdnedhed in t a church I1 knew this was out of orderordaroordpro he alajlsos 0 said that joseph F smithsmithy huewhile in calcakcaliferncalifornforniala had received a revelation from the lord to th fretffetaffetefferteffect that tietoe dream mine a true and because he did not sibsubmitmit itat to the chachucharchurchurchr h he vaswasmas alidailallajledaJailedledd home to give and account of himself

just before I1 quit him we sereverewere walwaiwalkingkirg fforaromfornroraornora first northnorihnordh and malnmairlmalmmaim 11 firt treetstreetS to the brigham young monument and niilewiilewhi e walking 1h malmdlalmdalaidarnid1 hhee hahadd a vision he said it was a greater manifestation tharltchan when thefhe to hepnephjesNepnephitesNephlesJeshites were supposed to have visited himhinihint aidkidandmid he waswa toldd o044 the pj&nion he was to have in the church and itlt was so great that he sauldwould riotno dare f 0 oj tellteiltelitoiltoll his wife what that positionpobltion was tozo brbe this last statement convincedonvjnced me that fohnloatoa ho koygoy wawao ledtedaed by a false and delusive spirit and that wekweek I1 notified thyrhymyray bishop axelaxed Aao madsen that I1 was severing my connection withwit h the dream Mmineminoinelne bishopblshop madsen said II111 I am surely glad to hear that and from 141dettha day to thithlhiohlothiot 1 have had nothing to do with the mine ex ept to scseilsellseittt11clc tdtdaja1 piadadjaAJa 1hetheahet he men wh worked under my direction and tried to get a settlement f my wllwn atortocxoraboraboc but have been unsuccunsuccessfulunsuccessfujessfud

after T came home from my last mission I1 met knkeykoy iele Jto arrangebraag for a settlement of my account with the company and he berbecameame ontorsffieraiaidentlaldentraldentlalladiad and made the falfolfoifollowinglowing remarks heherheber J grant has had a relatjorrevelationre relatJorootoor from the lord to the effect that the 11dream11reamream mine is true and if he doeouxoum 0 at submit it to the churchurchyh he will be taken away likelikeilke11ke prespros idealident smith wasowago at the next general priesthood conference i saisetsat in 1t hetletie trnatroaarna ie and heard president grant say john hoH koylekoy le is a harliarriarmar and hasbasas borbon lying to the people for twenty years 158

I1 knew that president grant raabgasr7abwas inspired in h IsI renarkkenark ed9 r d was telling the truth concerning john H koylekeykoy ie bebarausberausbecau&rrauhrauscaus ouldovouidJ ffromeromrom my own experience prove that he had been leaiealed by a faefagfalserag ardaddand dpasiw slrhalrh and had lied to the stockholders

and about two weeks ago mr from boun LI if a omenomemome to inelneideme edandana told me that the stockholders were teltellingI ing ahatfhathat john Rro KYKkoiekoleajiekjieY ie Lsh 00 nnoo coming into hshis own and that he is the rienghnnghightyeightyty and strong cineoneune abowhewhowhowbo i11. to come and take president grants piaplaplacoe and whchiiwhiwhiii b talktgtalktaikingkaikingtg wlnithnirhwirhtb iooiprirjbirj n ber stockholder he said he had been in otahutah coultycouqtyguilyouilyouilgrugiLy viiriitjngsbiting ffteeftet hi yrlincinin Hr id provo wavasvagwag i pre 1 that in springvilleSpringville etc it being freely1 spoken thithath1thei dent grant voulawould introduce john H koykoylele to0 o a general cooanfrfrtreartretrebcemrerrtarkrrke asa hi successor ofn

what rot and what a long time 0838 years t prepreparingpartog koiegole to0 o collect hundreds of people into and organization to turn nemhemthem from f-thhe truth

no wonder that president grant shottshouldid be inspired tct wanwarri 4.4 heh saints that koyle was being led by an evilevid spiruspirnspirit as heh- wasa iynglyngbyng tr the people and now I1 see the fulfifulcifulfilmentfulfillmentimentament of patriarch josephicse ph Eee warbnwaran word to me the devil Is digging a pit for you and after ydayoa are paedpa qedged it you will thank god both publicly and privately for his prot-preferectionecllonolontionciodo1iodo this I1 have done many times in the last seven years siacasincesinca severedsyred my connection with the koyle dream mine

s peter C carcay shon mistakes in letter taken from original APPENDAPPENDIXIX V john0 H koyleK0Y repudiatesreaurepu lates allailaliA claimsC MS regardingR 9 r i 9 dreamDr am mineM inelne DESERET WVSnelyswysnetysNEIVS

jan 8 Y 1947 TO hromWHOUWHOM IT MAX concealconcewlCONCEW I1 JOHN H KOTUKOTLE do sustain the president of the church of jeljemjesusjecus christ of latter day saints as the prophet seer and revelator of the lord in this day I1 do believe that the president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints aloreeioreelorealone has the right to receive divine guidance for the people of this church as a whole and am willing to sustain the first presidency of this church in all things including their stand and instruction with resardregardregert to the so called dream mine of which I1 aleanavaage the principal leader I1 hereby repudiate all statements which I1 have made against the advice of the first presidency of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints as pertaining to this dream eineielneteinewinemine arandd nymw conduct of it and I1 hereby repudiate all spiritual claims I1 have made with respect to thethbhe nwmidmim I1 appeal to all of aymy followers to join with me in this repudiation of claims to divine guidance in connection with this mine and to regard this idnewinemine as a business venture without any religious significance I1 al ask all stockholders in this mine to hannhannonizeharmonizeonize their thinking with the Ppub lisheddished aatement3statements of the first presidency of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints with respect to the dream mimmine and to honor and sustain the first presidency as the only ones chosen of the lord to give divine direction on any subject pertaining to the church at large I1 ask my followers likewise to retract all statements they naymay have made to the effect that the authorities oftheodtheof thebhe church of jesusjesua christ of utterletterlatter day saints have been mistaken withmith regard to our inelnemineinc cht I1 appeal to all stockholders in this ainealnemineml to rally around the authorities of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and give to them their undivided loyalty which I1 now hereby do I1 voluntarily do this of aymy cumown free will and choice

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stattstantstannSTATE OPOF urmwanMAN v J s3s8sa countrCOOBTTCOUNTY of braberanITANOTAB pe ptwoauyaljelj811 appeared bende so & ifotaitsotgot publio thlthikhi tuituk darderday of dawmjawmjaamyjemm 1947 ftiaylekylekyie ixondixonD and alallacefrftllace ruringrurengtronbron ft thektebhekhe 17 egli men tte lfmrlemrsifmrssipare off thlthiiiiithu imfmoimtnumi1415triuvi4so wittanwikeenlfttnlancaMbam urimemmum jotejome LH kojrlkojro ttbbe priaoipal imeimyemr&mregnar of ththebhekhe boeabovebot 4

sebarynotaryary fthlicpubliopuhlio aidlaaldiabidiarest at spanishspanichspanick forkborkpork utahniah it coanuildncoaljlilen expiresspirxpir arugru 7 liuzlluy1ju7aw 1w i e5eare 1 I1 3a 159 APPENDAPPENDIXIX VVII1

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state securities commission state capitol building salt lake city utah

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at the request of your director mrmroamro scott Ppo stewart I1 havehaitehaltehaire made an examination of the koyle mining companascompanysCompanys property and hereherewithvithwith respect- fully submit my findingfindingsfindingsoso the fieldfieldworkwork for this report was done on the 23rd of december 193219321.93219320 I1 also visited the property in an unofficial cap- acity on an earlier datedateo the property of the koyle mining company commonly called the dream mine is situated at the base of the wasatch mountains some three or four miles east of salemsalernsalerm utahitahoutaho the workings consist primarily of a tunnel more properly called an adit roughly three fifthsflfths of a mile in lengthlengthy together with one principal drift which in turn elvesbiveskivesgives rise to several minor driftsdriftso the tunnel trends in a southeasterly directdirectionlonion and the drifts are confined to its southerly sidesideodideo the malnmain drift leaves the tunnel at a distance of approximately two thousand feet from its portalportalo I1 am informed that there are also some older workings in thethpohp form of very irregular shafts and drifts which extend from a pointpointer higher on the mountain side downward toward the end of the tuntanneitunneitunneltunnelotonneloneinel those workings however I1 have not examined and am told that they have been inaecessibleinaccessible for several yearspearsoyearso on my 33. 1932 1 the occasion of visit of december 223 19321.93219 19 vaswasas accompanied by messrsmessrso scott Ppo stewartstewarfcj frankprank Sso allenalienailen alvixalvanalvjn Ggo pack and henry stesfcewartokrartokrasto we were accompanied through the property by mrmroamro john Hho koyle byron grant and three or four othersothersootherson T ainalnam informed that mrmroamro graatgreatgrantgrent has done some sampling and assaying for the koyle company 0 extensive surface improvements have been made within the last fefewyew months chiefly in the form of a mill designed to concentrate ores said to have been recently encountered in the minernlnco the mill Is situated on a hillside some three hundred feet from the portal of the tunnel with which it islb connected by mine carear trackagetractrackageokageo the building Is a cement ststructureractureucture and bears evidence of much cost in its constructionconstrucbiono the machinery consists principally of a rock crusher and two especially designed tables together with appurtenant electric power unitsunitsounitson already a considerable tonnage of purported ore is in the storage bins awaiting tretreatmenfcoa4aaimentkmentament ltit is planned to obtain water from the mine for use on the concentrating tablest6blestableso according to mr koyle the mill will be ready for starting as soon as a heat- ing device is installedinstalledoInstalledo i

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the great wasatch fault traverses the base of fthtch mnuritalns f 1100110.0 dred feet west of the portal of the tunnel in conconbquearrsequeii r olof01 vulnvhln iti might properly be expected that the formation in the mittemitie volwolwowoald1 11d hm selves be much fractured and faultedfauitedo this is the ao indeedinde ed I1J have never examined a mining property moremome completelybompoomplelielletelyedy tadfadfaultedyau jdJ d and fractured than this from the Pportalpontalortal to the breast of thiethlethe 1fukiIUKfukfuhIUKIuntietuatiettielrietI aloaioajio ly z withinwi thin the drifts P the formation pclaipallypr1ri1pally limstmeunttsf1 ne eadend qliartzaaruar itesizes are fractured and displaced in a most intricate marinemartner ro faults with usually veilveliwellweli developed slickslickeredslickenedened sides are abundantabundantlyiyay peoarfprf erlierikeratererjtjt I1in many places both the limestone and the quaquartzhquartzyquartzitertzitee are bibahigahighly brbre c iidlidled d often between two opposing faults brecciated zones are thuthusthug veryiirinum-iirrbirr erous

T throughout the entire property however A1 was ableabiabl to fid evidence of vein filling either within the brecciated zones or elsewieelsewiseeiseelsetheiowheiowheloi e indeed I1 have seldom if ever seen a mining prospect 1hatthat exhibited subsuchsusuh b a complete absence of mineralmineralizationizationbation 0 it should be said however thatthaithal wilhwithw th in some of the limestoneslimestones and along some of the fracturesfrafarefuretare small arouniamounlsamountsamounlss of iron sulphide are also present moreover inirilrilyl a fvtehyeh &othrmothrberhorkor places beallbmallsma111 amounts of iron sulphate are also present in seepage ater neltieneltbeneitherneltnerr of tesetoesemoese substances however is indicative of ore ocrarrncooccurrence on the aheiihertheraher hand evidence of mineralization of a commercial charatercharacteranater isLs totalltotallyv lackinglackilacklngoLackl ngo I1 do not recall ever having seen less encouragingpncouragingenoouraging condataonscondil lonotono while at the property I1 heard frequent reference by mrmcg ko-koylkoglkogiyle andanti others 1 I to a certain vein within the mine the truth is however hatthatf I1 did not find a single vein within the entire propertyproperpropertyotyo theethese so0 o called itveins are usually either brecciated zones or masses of gouge onn fauttfaultfauli surfacessurfacsurfacesoeso the operators apparently did not make this distindistinol ilonflonionofono ln consequence of which they have repeatedly followed brecbreo latedlafed zone ap- parentlyparently in the hope of finding ore this is particularlyparticular1ypart jculal y brutrue of work in thehe drifts

mrmy immediately before entering the tunnel I1 explained to 0 koyle that I1 had come to sample the mine for the state securities comajcommjcommi&jonsionslon and requested that he direct me to the places where he had discovered his high- est values this he courteously consented to do for which 1I1 expressed full appreciation we first traversed the entire length of the tunnel but according to mr koyle no values had been enenreno ounteredcounteredauntount ered within it and therefore I1 took no samples we returned to the main rightrighthandhand drift which leaverleaves the tunnel about 22000000ooo000.000 feet from its portal and after following it a fwtevfewtew hundred feetfeelreelreet we entered a left side drift from the faeface of which JI1 took SAMPLE NUM- BER ONE 1 1 mr koyle said values lawlew in gold had been found at this place within a short righthandright hand drift some distance back from theohieohle face T took SAMPLE NUMBER TWO 2 mr grant said thathatt he ladbadlledtad ad talbodtalnodhtalnedb low gold values from one sample taken by him at this point 0

we returned to the righthandright hand drift and followed lt to itsUs faceraceraifairat co at thisthiss point as throughout practically its entire lengthlength thetue drifdriftt followed a highly brecciated zone the zone material at the end of theth driftdriff lsisis18.18 a black carbonaceous limestone numerous slickensidesslickensides sirbinwithin iti t giglegivegieve evidence of intimate faulting the rock on slickenslickensidedslickensldedsided surfaces is al most as black and lustrous as gilsonite igiigl1611.61igi

herel as rlseisewhereIse1sewherewhere no evidence existsexis ts of ommrialomm erialclaaclax nn o-ona ra izamazam n andanc jetyet acordingctcordlngaccording to theth statement of Wkrekromre koyle theth matalmatelmatatematatmaterialla 1 aiat thisthibthiuthlu glaeulagplague not onlyony crnst0constituteslatestatesbates1ates the1 be ore about tottofcotco be treated inirjbirj the mh but aiso the mostmo valuable and practically silekilehe sole ore reiverelvere lveive hu fartarjar err k 1 aim0 oimo umileredalerednedred in theth property and from wh1hwhirwhah h valiauabitrvalijablejabiejable refret ucasornearnurncaecne breare elpeexpexpe ttededocdoe SAMPLE huberhuwerhumberNUMERNUMBER THREE 3 was taken at this pla7epiaplaplace borizatal1yboibol izilzflaf a I1 iyay acrossaer ad8d f bt facefac e of ttethe drift about waist high and nine feet ionglonglongo sampljiumpersampleSAMPIE numberNUMPFR FORFOUR 4 was taken vertically on the damesame faefatae e from off3 ft ie j ioorloor NUMBER MY aboutabou1aboud six feet SAMPLE FIVEfifeplye 5 was bakrlakrtaken at talet4lei requerequesfrequestsf of 0 grant across a one foot str-sirpakstrpakak of gouge and brercbrebierc laia at the et f thezhehe fafaeofacoc laix number srxarxIX 6 is a feartearfourtourrour footroot channelchannell sampgampsampleF of J hhepatapztap of aforexforeore on theljixlJfloor of the tunnelbunnel a few feeteefeetfeelteett back from thi h facefaeofaco SAMPUSPJYIPLE NUMBER SEVEN 7 is an eight foot channel samplesampie akentakeneaken fromfroin a0 sgstactshactk of ore in a short lefthandleft hand drift some fifty feet bak from theh faeface ThroughthrolignoutthrougholatolAt the entire period of taking these samples mr koyle was presentpresentp and agreed that the samples were charatericharachanachararteristcharacteristterlteri ic of the or from which he expected retuxreauxretilrnsns before leaving this drift and again at its junion athwthith thehe main tijtiaeltimnelo JI1 asked mr koyle if there were other points injn the luine ata waichwalchwhich ore had been encountered and from which samples should be tekertakeni tto which he replied in the negative upon reaching the portal of the tunnetunnel it was suggested by mroamromy stewart that a sample be taken of theorethetheomeomeore in the storage binsbinebing at the milmiimiil J I1I1 asked mr koyle what he thought of the suggestion and he replied that we might do as we chose and followed with the stostatementlement f hat he knew thistalis ore contained valuervalues whereupon we immediateimmediatelyly went to tthefhettetle bins and c11ectedcullectedcollected0 SAMPLE NUMBER EIGHT 8 we even followedfolrol lowedblowed hishlsahls sbuiggesionduggesugges tlonion as to the place from which part of the sample should be takentakeno at this point 1.1 desire to express appreciation of the ourtourteoasnzurteoijseoas manner in which mrya koyle received us and accompanied lislibus ththroughr ough bishisbib property 0 after returning to saltsait lake city I1 took the samples to the metallurglmetallurgymetal jorgllorgl cal laboratories at the universitycanicjniversify of utah where they were ground to a fineness of 150 mesh and quartered into foutfoarfourrout samples althwithwlthwl t h theth exception of sample number five 5 which because of its smellsmallsmeilsmax sizsize was dividcdividadividedd into two samples this work was done by mr Tto L johnstonJohrjohn ston and professor R L kidd the samplessainsajndierdiespleR werverewere placed in eight ounouneounp videwideld mouth bbottlesbototttlesties1eaes and then corked and sealed I11 vasajaswasvjas prespjrespare at throughoutt thehp nttoentinantto procedure also mr grantgrantsgrante I1 then conveyed the samples to my offfofafofficeiceieelee at the university where they were placed under loclo10 k1 and kykey later the eight samples were submitted to the firm of flarfiarblarfiackflack k and deasorbeasor for assay with instracinstructionsf ionslonstons to discover even thee faintfaide JTt amounts of whatever gold or silver might be present nenernelnei kriet 14eide sourlbourlsouree of ththl florellore noinor my own identity was discloseddisc lospci capycopy cfof the asc ay ertrt iftahtAftiffatif1ataftcatecate ffollows a-

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assaassayersrs & chemistsChemi ets saltsattsaat7t laelalakee clicifcity utahubah jauayjahay 909 9531953 sample gold valu goldgo id sovetS t i re r number ouncesouanesnnes per ton ouncesow10 e S

1 0002 40 0050.05 2 trace traceteaceT rac e 3 00030.003 606 01oi0.1 4 00020.002 4 010.1oi0001oo 5 tractraetracee traceprace 6 00030.003 60 trace 7 0003 606 trace 8 trace tvaceavace the ffollowingollQwing day the eight samples were submitted to the firm of crismon and nichols for assayassaysessays in this nabecasemabenasepase the assayers were informed as tto the source of the ore to my identity and that the ore had been assayed by another firm but the results were not given mr grant above mentioned requested of the assayers that he be permitted 1to be present frailefrhile4hilpphiip the assaysessays were being run the assayers acceded to mr Grangrantsgrantsgranusls request copy of the assay certificate follows certificate of assay CRISMON & NICHOLS saitsa J lake city utirmahajiajl janjain 10iop 1933 sample ozsgozs gold ozsgozs stiversilver value of gogoldgohdid number per ton per ton perer ton 1 ooi0010.01 trace 20020 2 trace trace 3 trace rrtracerac e 4 trace trace 5 trace traetrace 6 ooi0010.01 trace 20020 7 trace trace 8 ooi0010.01 trace 200 in conclusion I1 desire to state that in my judgment the koyle mining property offers no encouragement whatsoever for the futureputure while its formations djacent to the great wasatch fault are ihlmt6lyintimtelyintimately displaced and fractured yet evidence of commercial mineralizattcmineralizationn are wholly lackilackinglackioglack1rgog the ore bodies recently discovered are shoshownoinvinwin by both of the aboveab V assafassaeassax to be worthless this is also true of the ore in the miilmill bins awaiting treatment the building of a mill under buhsuhsuchsueh conditions I1is notnoh onlyouly I1inM mature but involves a useless expenditure of both labarlabcriahor and mmoneyney very respectrespectfifieulypulyayiy submitted abls frederick J pack 16130 3 APPENDAPPENDIXtry V if

THE STATE OF laelahbahfl1ahAH OFFICE OF tidtimIHF ATORNEY GKGENERALteraileraltERAL

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krmr laurencelawrence taylor diredirectortoctor state securities commission department of business regulation B U I1r L D I13 N G dear mr taylor this is in reply to your recent ruetruehrequest irtr 4hi0hhi h you desire an answer to the followingfoifolyol lovnaiowna question if treasury stock in a corporation isib givrjgivelgivex ttrfor offlroffarofficersetsers of the company by resolution of the board of rredrearerweD e 2 ffursforstursors tf services labor in mlminesf nes etcet or on a contradcontrarcontract0 ttt levloplevlondevelop a mine tobo a certain depth the stock thtibenihenthonh n sogoldL d by susuhsoh h officofflierofficierofficterter to the public and proceeds used for balehhiethebhekale further dvpir pm nt or expense of the mine could this be or rud aciscio proa stock sales exempt under 82182.182 1 6 9 if s-soldid by t hene jnerajnersner r ol01f sichsach stock if sold by others for ithehe owner sherewherevh rp yrinareyrinarereyzina lor or commission is received by the persrnpersenperycn ilnaln section 821682 1 6 9 provides the sale assignment transfer or exchange bbyy a natural 1lon person of any security issued and delivered bbyy a or porafolporaionpolportionpor aionalon1 jon which at the time of sachsuchsueh issue is lanfullawful 11i y quaquequalifiedliflerlifled to dtdoj business in this state and at thehe itimeme of such sdsa le align- ment transfer or exchange is injn actual botabonaboda tidetldefidefidyid extbeneexlsieneeext bene and actually engaged in the transaction of the princlprincipalpaipal bbubjirxusjncz8ss U yian provided for by its articles cfof inotlnorinorinorporatincorporatincorporateporatlonionionlon f h yiajia ucaurara 1 person isi a resident citizen of this state and the babionia tdeflderoealderog owner of such security and it has been oafinuoslv ineanesneslareslnre theuheth time of its issuance outstanding in the hands of thithu guhli provided that any such sale assignment transfertram3fer or exohangexciange shall be instituted and consiconsummatedmeatedmnated only by the rikfikonerner thereof without the int erventionerveninterventiontion of any agert oiherotherothenhr kuatr ha a agrageageo0r autv registered by the commission at theihbhe eme of ssuchsochsuhuehuchochsueh salesyleeylesaes1le g ment transfer oj exchange and proirlprovidedded further thaithal ie commission at any time within its diserediscretion4 lonion naymay susnperdpe kd or0 1 lir11rmroamro Llo10 taygaytaylorlorborlom1or 2 164lgb 1.1PI 7 46

revoke this emptionexemptionr in so far as itat mavmay haeiarelare appapplafloacajaor to any daxdaypaytipaxparticularti ular security and to that end any and alialaeliallail &eccy1ehsecurlj1ef3 coming exclusively within the propyop7105v 1sas ionslonstons of bisbibhib geeds t mnn shall for all purposes of suspenskrsuspensionsuspensor revooatrevorevocationcatoatdonjonaon orr prpc fpjthoo0jtdjaorj b 822 1 deemed a registered security as provided foforjr jr 3 r diensjaonsjacons11 as 82 1919 and 82821101 10LO

the above quoted section does not prohlprohlbjprohibitbjI1 t ithehe ubeuse of fimdsfindsfindbimas received fromfroin the sale of stock for development purdomepurportspurportopurpnxcportos the aseuse of funds for development Ppfirposesarposespurposes Is prohibited by ther he proviprovaprovlonprovlonvionPlonionaon1on of sub section 3 of the section batbut only when the ent4reentire1entyre sirstr3 of th ump&ny is soldsold and used for suchsuehstich purposes 0

to the question which you raise itft uddnoulawouldu1d apperappear thatthai ifi f the corporation in question is aulyduly quaqualifiedlifted to do business J ai this teattatefeat and is actually engaged irin the transaction of the principal business provided for by its articles of incorporation and if the sale Is to 1 a naturanaturall person who is a resident of this state and suhsu h liaturallianalnarna uaiaaiubiublturalturai person has become the bona fide owner of the stosshostokshokto k tthrough iheaheh pamentpayment of money or services then there is no proprohibitionhibitiori to his sesellingilingailing bahsiarsijrbjhh stock and using the proceeds to develop the mine under contracontractt for suchguchgucki purposes such sale could be made by himself or by another for him provided such other person is an agent duly registered by theth ccconimiyslonrrarfs ionlonaon1on at the time of such sale or transfer yours very trulytrulyetrulyn

s GROVERGROWER Aao GJUES bfskibaskirpskl attorney Geroergeneraliraiiral 165 APPFNDappendAPPENDIXJX v1vavillVIII1111

tiletlleteeTIIETHE baisbalsBAIS FOR THE LEGEND OF THE THREE NEPHTES IN MORMON THEOLOGY the legend which constitutes the subject of this studmaclytaclyy has its mediateimmediateiratratrn origin in a chapter of the book of matmonmarmonmormonmormon aichhichwhich teilstellstelistell0aeils of the establishment of christs church among the american indiaindiansae 0 fienceflence a slslightight knowledge of the content of the book of mormon a certain plous man by the name of lehlehilehl who lived at jerusalem during the reign of zedekiah 11II kings 24717247 17 left his native land with his famtamfamilyfamilyfamijyilyllyity because of the iniquities thatthab existed there and after various dringowardringowanderingswarwan came by boat to south america there the descendants of lehlenlehilehl werewewerre soongoon piatpi3tspiltsplit into two great factions the first group was called the nephitesneptiftesNephites named from nephi who was a son of lehi and whose descendants were 8a white and delightsome people which lived in south america for several centuries they were eventually exterminated by the other groupgroups the lam anitesanides named from laman who was a second son of lehlenlehilenilehlleui1 0 the latter are said to have been cursed with a red skin because of their sinful wavaysways and hence it is they who according to the book of mormon were the ancestors of the american indians now when christ was resurrectresurrectededl after having established his church at jerusalem he came according to the book of mormon to the nephitesNephites of south america and established his church upon this continent just as he had done in the old world during his brief sojourn among the nephitesNephites he effected a complete organization of his church and chose twelve apostles to carry on his work after his departure book of mormon ilitilIII111 nephi 94 having done this he called his apostles together addressing them one by one he said what Is it that ye desire of me after that I1 am gone to the father tiitiloti111III nephi 281 ftff nine of the twelve asked that they should be permitted to come speedily into christs kingdom when their missions upon the earth were completed and their desire was granted when this question was patput to the other three they were sorrowful and did not dare to speak theirtheimthelmthe lr desire but jesus guessed their thoughts and said to them ye have desired the thing which john my beloved desired of me johnjohn 221 202520 25 then he blessed them that they should never taste of death and that they should live until his second coming when they would be changechangedcl in the twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality they kereverevecewerewene promised that they should never suffer pain or sorrow thatthatt thythey should be special missionaries to bring the souls of men unto bhethe clhircahirchristist theatheo jesus disappeared and the three nephitesNephites were caughtcaught up unto heaven and saw and heard unspeakable things which however thethotheyey wrenyewerewye for bidden to utter they were transformed into a partially immortal state in which condition they went about preaching and baptistrybaptis ing we are toldloldboldboid that they were cast into prison burledburied alive thrown into a furnace and into a den of wild beasts but on all occasions they verewerevemewerp harmedunharmedurluri bo cause of the miraculous powers which the christ had givergiven thernthemotheyn ftrt ijbs interesting thatthot the prophet mormon whom we are told eordedwordedycorded3 eorded theirthelmrheim history many centuries after the time of christ says that heh was aboutabout to write the names of these prophets who were never to taste of death but that the lord prohibited it mormon farther says that heh has eenseen 166 them aimsehimsehimselflf and that they shailshallshali bring many souls unto ctvistchrist becauseecaube of the convincing power of god which Is in them moteMoremoreoveroleroier itft 1iai&s their speclalspecialspecyalspec lallalaiial L power that by asking the permission of god they may appear to10 whomeverwhornever they choose 0 by them says mormon many great and wonderfttwonder flufidfuu works are to be accomplished and a curscurse shall be upon those people who see and hearbear them yet heed them not nor is mormon the last of the nephite prophets who make mention of these bearded immortals moroni his son aadandaaaana the last of the nephite prophets who is supposed to have closed the record of Christchriststs church on thefcheache american continent stated the book of mormon also makes mention of them he says that in his time the nephitesNephites weretwere so sinful that there were none who knew the true god except the disciples of jesus who did tarry in the land until the wickedness of the people was so great that the lord would not suffer them tofco remain with the people and whether they be tiponaponupon bhethetche face of the land no man knoweth he affirms that both he and his father have seen them and have been ministered to by them book of mormon mormon 81011810 11 116ilg it is evident that we have here a theology which is supremely conducive to the development of a legend

THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE 53 january march 190igo2940igho pp16 17 igl167167.167

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DREAM MINE FRESIDEWPRESIDENT BEPLFES TOVO ORDR PWJPACK

jojohnhn Hho koyle answers statement f fredFredefrederefrederjrlrj v Jjo pa

for a numnumberber of years myself ardand frfriendsIiiiadsiiams ads rvveevvefi beebeerbeey j&brirg per-pe 1 ae aes I le muyi ajr M istertiyhylstently to secure vavaluesues at IJthesheJ koviekoyle mutmineP 0 or Dedeahrdeajr ln situated southeast of spanish forlifcrliforkoporko

sance b slncesincesince statements recenrecentlyrecentlytty havebave been publishedpiifj ashshedsned byf dr 0 deihdeik joJ pack that4 viewewie have no present values nor any ututuriturur brooeprooe andaridana ha pproceededroceeded without having had ananyy values I1 am sdbmittirigsubmitting tteetetie fnanfollowing10ing10inking reports

essaysassays made by thonasthomas Eeo Cchafcwinhat dn of mammoth utahotahubahU augaugust-jstast fo0o 11931193 3 L decemberdec ember injnluslveiusive 19319.39 9.9 representing severalseveras hundred asay vary from 040 to 640gho6406.40 per ton in gold

A chemicalchemical quantitative and qualquaiqua1quabqualitative1 tativedative axaiaraiabaianalysisysis by if roromneyronenone y phd on december 4 1932 gives a return of 200 per ton in gold and garlid gruodi am declarescIaresdeclares the following metals to be present piaplaplamnjniarijm ruodirliodium osmium 0 rickenickenickel arsenic antimony lead and ironironobrono incidentally on theoieolevie same date stated above Deendeenilberpe emberilber 24P4 9321932t junius hayes of the university of utah racefacultyttyy reported thadthat hekte had assay c-edd samples collecollectedted by himself from the koyle Mminmionr andfoura found ggoldildlidjid tfto th extent of ito1701.70 aandaadad 080soe0800.80 per tontonetono these aessaysassaysssa ysy s 0closelye V a ly1y wtbjtb h onap np anotheranofchero the following assaysessays from various assaassayersers n the aj1jity are SFLIstselieelispillilllilailiil more of a definite informative natinatureirelre allaltaiaalaAIJ samples were collected with the view of getting a fair return of the ore than being rindmindd in Iidletjiethediedlejic various drifts of the koyle mine

& 6 lobo10501040sylokylo.1 crismon nichols sept 9.9 1932 welweire1yirnedarnedurned 1lo4o40 perpex toasoa in goldgoldo alonzo F bardwell septdeptosepto 26 193229321.9322.932 re4urnedreturnedturnedburned 6896896.896089 ppertr tottortonoonooo irin gridboldogoldo biarI1 a k rxarx deason april 22 P 193219321.932 returned 408040080408040.80 per tontorktonk in baidboidgaidboldogoldo

the officials of the koyle mining comparicompanyy aalwaysilalla17a VE wishing to get at definite factadtacfactsts have spared no effort in getting alat I1truerue uesuresulresolresutto6 respecting this fact they had a series of sampsampleses sibsibmitsubmitsubmittedmIt I1 ed to ftheshebhekieklePIP kssayassay office of the united states of saitsaltsaltsailsais lake city utah wh ih yenwnren dered the following dates and returnsurns septdeptosepto 191.9iglg 19321.9321932j 22502050225022.50 and goo600 .1 rt 1 1 17 per t-tonon in goldgohd octocto 1 1932 176017.6017060 per ton in gold octocto 7 1932j932j932 9.9 080soooao0080o8o0o8o 12010201201.20 20020002002.00 per ton in goldgoldo

byron E grant vorworvomworkingkirgkirsking at the koyle mining rnpay& assay orticoraorticiloilgtic during the months of october november and DeenideemberdeamberdeeniiberDe emberiber mademede upward of aal thousand assaysessays shoshowingshowjngshovyingvying returns of from a tractraotract to 44444 per ton in blabiagla A more careearecarefulfuifua analysis of these many assaysessaysassayss siipssseipsskipsapsjps show severaseveral1 returrisreturns 568368168

dverevercvenlter 100 per ton while the greatgreat majority of the abbaab&aassay lp w ilg680 returns of from 2 ardand 3 up to 30 0 such figures as 9000300000200020.0030o00o 1680 480480 shokko440440 26020602602.60 1200 1380 and 60560go5605.6060.60 dresepresentafqf tbemzsetimtimbevebavebeveA xe bluntly whilehiiewhile thumbing thistilis large collection afofuf assa-assayy tibbtipbslips bea dabdag n ssigsigra1gragr a turlureturee of byron E grant

report of john M bestelmeyer of jimjime 6 1932 ongo bialvialma 301 n at the request of interestedintinf erected parties and for certacertainn dttir1ch finitete esonsreasons ardand with the assistance of mr D W jeffs manager f the ua goldgoad Ccojcotboj we visited the koyle mining company situated at the base clof ther tletie wdsatwasat h11 range easterly of salem utah to sajnplesaxnple certain farfanfacestarestanesP phi theulbe vionkonhorkr K ings of the mine for the purpose of definitelydeftnitelydeflmrely proefrprovfrprovirg anganyarvy g idld values thatthaithae might hebe obtained by directdireaicealce t amalgamation and dcemne a nearly as possible the value ifjf any in ounces of gold per iontonlonotono all samples taken were properly numbered dated and designdesignaildesignatedailed as t-to0 o positiondosiposlposi tion width and vein with allaliailau faces properlyproperly e leaned of loose ct material j groved and chaechanneledled at regimegimeglregularriaralar fredetepredetepredeterminedmined distandistanceses wlirb due regard to the width of sample taken to gain as near a 4 humarhumayhumanlyhumayllyilylly pos sible a resuitresult of ACTUAL VALUEVALUER without fear or favifaivorfcivorr trt anyone concerned 0 sample no 139 returns values of 159015090159015.90 per ton in gold sample nonoo ibo140ihoyahoy 17001700017 00 samplesampie nonoo 141 440044.00 safswriplesarripleSarriple no 142142.14214 206021604260pogo2o60216o sampe noroonoo 143 2200220022.00 sample nonoo ibbi441441.44 550 samplsamp1samplesampa nonoo J ioooo samplesampie nonocnoo a46j46146 14801480 and sample no 147 glogio90100991091.09ol0o10 As you know these samples were taken to sasalvit lake 1to0 bbe pulverized tottofcotco the required mesh aridandarldanid on janejune ath4th eee e axoalgamqdjpalgajniyeded hjby mr fred thompson in our presence afterwards sealingaeaoea tingling the guldgold in glass vialsviajsoviasso I1 personalpersonally ly weighed the gold with the results as taulalauiatauiataulauia do it might be well to state ithathabhau no attempt 1 maderoaderoedenoade tuto go tjotaoflo fe into locations history development ore exposures 9.9 pographicaltopogaphlcelpographical or geological features other than to slstateshateate tabb aai1 1.1 ork pasipagi prepr ent and future plans Is carried on in a businesslikemirer mirerlikemireriikelikeilke manylerpmantmanymannermannenlerp anand is impressive of good judgment visionviston personality and terminationterm1nationdetermlnnatiortdfrdar of mr koyle whilewhtie the report of dr J pack states the completedcomplacomplecompia fed abseabsenceneenoe f floreore the above report of mr bestelmeyer proves oeareore of a connercommercialcialclad value to be presentpresents both men are competent in their resperespectivetivehive fieldsfiefle ids 0 mrmroamro bestelmeyer is a mining man of tried integrity and long perierperierrcrc while dr pack is a teacher of geology it seems there ibslbs an inclconsiliconsiansisonsis tency existing here that should be righted thetue koyle mining Compcompanompanaq accepts the report of mr Bestelbestelmeyerneyermeyer sisinen e his repoceporeport7 t kiaviaassasoafo made fromtrom a nonpartisan unbiased standpoint and free from any exteriorexterlor intimldatintinf imidetimidee ingng influencesinftanft bencesaences dr pack representing the state of utahubahutash took one getbet3et06t of zightbight samples from the koyle mining company property and from a return of these samples draws the conclusion that the royleroyiekoyle mine offers m hope 4 0 for the futurefuturesfutureo the koyle mining company ishewishewishesw to1 o aketake thehr libtib rt y tcte 169 state that such a method of procedure is entirely unfair unscientific and unsatisfactory to our company due to the fluctuatingfluptuating nature afpfqf the ore varying from a few dollars due day to several hundred dollars on another day as proved by careful daily assaysessays made by the company any one sample taken on any specific day could neither condemn nor justify the mine supposing dr pack and his party shoulashould have visited the koyle mine on a day when the company assayer surrendered returns of 44400444444oo444i00oo as was done on november 9 1932 what would have been the nature of his report I1 john H koyl hereby declare that all the above samples were taken from theth koyle mine that these statements are true that we have had values and have them at the present time

s JOHN H KOYLE

0 170

APPENDAPPENDIXTX X

A questionnairequestionnatre SENT TO FIFTY stockholders OF ITFitelseTHE KOYLE MINING COMPANY

june 30 1960

please answer the following questions and mailmallmali them to me as soongoon as pos siblesibieelbieeibie if enough space is not allowed between questions for your ansveranaver please conticontinuenup on the back of the sheet or on an extra shetsheet of paperpapenpapero 13 As you recall what event s or experience s prompted your original interest in the koyle reliefbelief mine or in john H koyle

II1111 what was your original understanding of the purpose of the koyle reliefbeliefbellef mine has this understanding changed since then

illiliIII111 what is your honest opinion of bishop koyle

IV do yolyotyou feel that the mine viiiwillwall still produce at some time in the future 7 explain

V do you feelfeol that the time and money you invested in the mine was wisely invested explain 171 VI does it bother you that sixty seven years have gone by with no serious production from the mine how do you explain this long delay in production

VII if bishop koylehoylehoyie vasvaawaswaa 49 prophet how do you explain the opposition of the church to him

VIII did you or vouyouyouryoup family ever suffer in any way as a result of time and money tnvestedinvested in the mine do you know anyone who did suffer if yes explain

IX are you in agreement vithwith present activities at the mine ex the new articles afpfqf incorporation area where work is going forward leadership etcptctc

X were promises of aroanyapy kind made totp you at the tneaneome you purchased your stock or at thpohpth time you may have worked at the mine if yes explain

XI did you not expect the mine to come in at an earlier date were you ever told that it was to have produced 4tatt some definite time in the past 172 APPENDIX XI

stockholders IN THE KOYLE MINING COMPANY WHO PLEDGEDFLEDGED THEIR STOCK TO THE RELIEF MINE COMPANY

NAME ADDRESS SHARE quayle dixon spanish fork 1212596596596.596 homerhomec earwoodharwood spanish fork 1625 doug dixon payson 130893 089 horace brough 3w4so bountiful 15l4oi514o15140

G C morris 1053 roosevelt ave SLC 158515871.1 585585.585 fred W fink koyle mine 2 2 5.5 6 jesse L young 451 S 500 E provo 1270 alfred brooksby spanish fork 1pap1693691 lavar R hooley 862 south 800 east orem 22519519519.519

A N E provo karl bentwet 247 2 7.7 41504.150

1 0 edna bentwet 410P jn leroy koyle spanish fork 2pap231131 leroy koyle spanish fork 11028028028.028 merrill koyle salem utah 55131113131 mary dee koyle salem utah 300 blanchard dixon 189 south 1 east payson 700 sheldon dixon 320 so 4 W payson 13023 02 willard fuller 4254 hiland drive SLC 22393393

D weston thomander 1271 stringham ave 452 clyde hood 104 south 9 east SLC 3705370r3700 eliza tudjekudje 817 south 8 east SLC 3j63.3 6 willard E barlow 543 south 8 east SLC 330000 n

C P i helmut I1 warkwack 16451.645 lake ST 0 sicsieSF

Sso Sso enzkunz 4618 beubebbelidouravnoiirnoier ay SU mary fraudsfrandsfrandsen en liii111.11133.3 easteest 3 solitftsoiirsodir sprineSPringspriitglispringvilievilie

cheooneo pile 52512 E 4 soutsoumigoumitiptiot io spspigtingvij iec- wm F aniownio F wrightwr ight 168468 4 sosoo n Sprlngvillespringvijie richardrachardrl hard Sso krause 74075 candlewood stS 0 r S artja palmpaimpai deeertdebertdeides r y caioaicatajafntorlforitonirtjaa jn altredaifredalfredalered anderson Tttl77172121 eafeedfeedieledlet ageaveaveoageo aloaioaliforniaalfforniaraliforaiaalffornia CO

Aao Aao sinclair 3457 rankiebinkiebinklerfnkiebinkipyY av- o daliasdallasdaifas teasteaatexajeaa alardulardwillard Jjo vineeVIncevincentnf 58 noinornorfnorfhnorahf lh 2 E spanisparishspaaishsbab Ffo rk 04 ellzaelizabilza Bbo hales 111 E 1 nokoonoo Spspanishanist fork agus hales higgens 2266 doidoydoningtondoningtunningtanningtanton aveavaveoageoe slrclr aras Ggo boenbovenbowen spanishspanjshsparnsh fork jaj4

Wwo Ggo boenbahenbohen spanish fork alfredaifredA ifred Banbangarthangarterbangartergarterer koykoiekolekoylele minemilne

E 11 N sherman brown 91 9.9 spanish fork 500

E soo .9 june pierce 354 3 so 9 springvuieSpringvulevUie11 ie 303 lavarlavactavar R owen 288 Nno main SICSLC 101.0jo 00 claude Ffo weight 22858 5 E 3 Ssoo0 prprovooa c 98 george charles salemsaj em 980 leslielesile Bbo houtz 742 W 400 Nngongg ptprjvoprevoov c martha Aao horcborc 90 N 300 W 0 paul dixon 40 nonoenoo main sparspanspanishishI fork clyde Aao swenson spanish fork proveprovo roy gardener 208208908 N 4 Eeo 9.9 protto harriet snellsue 11 80 E 2 nonoa sparishspanish fork aa1aa 1.1 4

jyruemyrtiemyrtteayrue pierplerpiersepiercee 142142.142 east 8 sosoothjth oremoj em 225125.15 1 martmartthaha Ppo Mahrmhrhr 9714 parrot aveaveoAveo downeydowne califcaicat i forniornia a I11000000ooo000.000 heuerthebert Llo10 juntz 8506 south 700 east sandy utah 114211.42 vildavidda kanzdunzkunz 56060 east 200 snsnutsoutafuf ja sandy utah 11248248248.248 ivanbiranigan Ddo kunz 8536 sousouthh 700 east 1 sandysandyycandyy uabufcafaab 1182P 182 everett Aao kunz 8817ft17171.7 fasifasteasieast 2 south 267

artlArtiarticlescIesclebeleb of incorporation relief mine Comcompanyparry appendage located in tieblehie office of the secretary of state state capilolcapitoloaplcapCapi lolnolholnoitol biagbldgbidgbiagoblago salt lake city ulahutah ANAM fjjstoricalHISTORYII1 AL STUDY OF THE noylekoyleKOHJSNOYIE bellefbeliefRELIEFRELTFF mtemuteMVTF i89i894c4 962

an abstract of the thesis of jamesjams R Christianchristianbtchristiansochristianbechristianswswbt in partialparTtaltailal flilfillment of the requkremrequirementsti S for the degreebeg ree of master of artsarfart inLT ttheae department of hihistorytartaryy

dr eugene E campbellcampbeli chairman advisory committee gustive 000oo larson member advisory committee

Brigbrighamharnhard xoungyoung univuriurluni versify

jinejune 1.11962962 t

ABSTRACT

E 1 M n & poi Cr straitiraj the koyle relief mineine locatedor ted nciarclarar fipanicipanipanlponipani 1 foiforboifon iiD rtraitifxalrtrajrai

utahurah has had a profound erriteffiteffectact upon hethet ifflitelifeiwue andaanaanund proprjypropkz 3 y jff vsaridb

1I1 cfof members of the chuihchuichchuxch f jesus chchrchristr I sts t of laltpt daydag sa 0 0 ompadompaiompaipau officialsoftiaifial cclaim that tjieimie1I he nimbernumber of tohoidetoholdehoide pa4paa rinnin i p rar4 exe eedsceedsceede six thousand pprbodbopersons

despite the sixty eight years of its totaltotallyly lmoimo j osfulosgulu L roperper atlon the mine continues loto10 maintain a zountleoztountless nixbnimbnumbsnumbc r cfof 0 d believers and to attract a considerable array of new onesbonesooneso promptprompted ed by a type of rligiouslegiousreligioasreligiousreLige ioas fervor hese people continue to declare iethe mlpmip dirldirichriadhriane aandanand iitsaisiists ffounderyounder john hoH koyle inspiredinsplredo balingbasing theirtheimthelm fdithadithrairalrelthraithth or huekhebuebup laenedlajlajneddedned drdreamsearnseazns visions and theophaniestheophanies of koyikoylee they awaltawait the umipigumirigum2orrittigirigtrig forth

of boundless riches from the mine which will be ubdabdas d to benebencbeffibewfibewelbemelaltfltP notuo t onlvorlioxilonlaorlly y

themselves but alialaallailaia of the ighteousrighteous in the lasilastiasi day 0

the kaykoykaylekoylele relief mine had its inception oeone night inIT 894894.8941894 when

a supernatural being purportedly appeared to koyle and 00ooeondijhiduridurIdu tedfed him to

a mountain a short did i stancestancastaneadistance from his honehodehome at a specifiedspecdlfi&d pt 9 theh earthear ih parted before them and the two spent the remainaremaindremainderr otor flejrearethe1re night in spectingspeckingspecting a vast underground network of tunnels shitshiiwhiwhit h led tot a nunibernumbernumoer ofot

locations containing refined gold and extremely high gglamgradgraaia&iabiamlam gojagold beaheaioglugingaug

oreoreo they passed through the workings of an anintadintan lentientbent dopdeoppop y vhwho ilki1ia kc koyle would eventuallyevent iiallyitally dcdo had made extensive cortcorxontatcontatcorxtattat with tthetrthearhemheh e ri bh deposits and had suesssuessfullysuceessfullysuccessfullytullyfuLly mined them 0 o th timelime hatthaithatbhaitl thyf h beambe ame wicked and were no longer privileged trt extract the hidden balthealtheatthoeartho i75175 171766

shortly after this experience koyle began th artmlartalkatuartalatiqi ml operation which he directed until his death fiftyflftyfafty five aarsyars galore from 1894 until tteftpthe present various staleobstaleobstacleobastabstaskaleshaieiehies awrekwre acted as gsgszs esokyoeyo yke min&o A effective inhibitors of prcjgrrprogressss at81 the koyleyle mineminao le of funds 19 a shortage of workerswoxkers and the absence nfof mahinrymamahonryhinry weye olietantlyOLietantlyanthy in the way of advancement these however wereweme internal grfvrrpriobjama and were

usually overcome aror at iashlaytif ast explafexplainednedoed aayaaa 0 thatheT hagiahaginlanlaomindaija opposition suffered by the operators of the mine centeredcentexed in aaan octasioctavioccasional &1dignmtledgraatled stockholder the utah state secarsecuritiessecuritiesitiesaties commission and the latter day saint

1 churchchurch from time to time throughout1k its alstohlstohistoryy one aror more of these agencies were successful in momentmomentarilyarly curtailing the activities at the mine however thelttheir aactionstiong had no bermipermipermanentmaxientpaxient effatefteette t and thetlle enter prise continues to odeopeoperatet ateabe as though completely dauntedkindaxrxted by the accusations and threats of its assailassai1assailantsants when on a number of otoccasionsasloneaslonsaslonsions john koyle ddeclaredlatedlared1aredbared that he had been visited by kindly appearappearinging white baxbeardedded eleldellelderlaerlaeriderl men he vaswas very much in harmony with some aspects of the traditional fofolklorelilorelkloreLklorehoceboce of his culture wherever the mormon faith is well establisiestablishestablishedleapteap one frequexxtfrequentlyly hearshears accounts of the supernatural appeappearancetarancecarance and disappearanpd5s8ppearqje of just such remarkable individuals their identidentityty ranges fromtrom that of the angel moroni and the three nephitesNephites j alleged prophetspxophets who livedlimed11 red in ancient america to john the beloved and the wandering jewogewo although the koyle mine is thought of as the most fanousfamous dream mine in mormondom it is ceceicercertainlyrfainlytainlyta inisinly not the onlyonly on A numberyxaribcr of utah communities have their local joinjohn Kykyleiskeyleskbylesleisimis who spentsperm a 31felifetimeinsineane1ne at the site of some mine or barleaariedurledburleaburied treatreasiitreasiatreasurestisiisll ep the locatilocatirnlocationlocationrnon of whiwhiaahiawhim h waswagafasatas revealed in a 177 dreamdreaino in addition to kokoyleile there are numbered among this group suh names as old man peay fredrfredrikfredricklckick Jjo holten ben bullock jesse knight

and numerous others 0 the probability that knights was the first and

1 onionlyY slustusuccessfulcessqfu venture of uiis tlypetypeype estestablishesablis hesnes it as a possible proto- type for its ninumerousime rous unterpartscounterpartscooum rpartssparts all tfof whichwhi h wreverewerevrew re fallufaliufalluresofa111xresreso on sundry 0oaonbaoncas ionslons thehe future of the dream mine has been linked with that of rieinethelielle rdeardiordirdr r of aaron a splinter grogroupup of the latter day any londonship t o howpver saint churhochucho suggested reialrelatrejauontohipionshipIonship belbeibetweentween the 0 however 1 is seemingly more speespeculativealafdiatulaf dre than factfalofactlialtiailial phetherhe qtiestlcnablebuetiquetiqueliquell nablnahl future of each tends to dissuade any possibilpossibilityiliritir of theirtbeir one day being un1fedunltedo one must conclude eventual sjrajr es foiforfox both ln1rar order to assassumetametume otheotherwiserviseavise 0 at the present time the officofficialslaissaibsalb of the newlynevnewIT organized relief mine company are buuybluybuny malingmakingmak mg preparations f jri the marketing of a commercial fertlfertifertllizerfertilizerfermiizeryettiferMi izerlizer callccalledallaliailted KOMICOXKOMICO an abbreviation of koyle mining companiocompanyCompcompanyoanyo it is antiantlaniant 1 el paledpatedipated thttntaht consconsiderableerableiterableiderableid profitsprofftsprofifts kiilviilailiil result from thisthiethlethasthjs anarnarmamm butiousbotious projetproprojebrojeprofetjetto a11a3aa 1 proproelsproedseeras1s viliviiiwill go owardtowardtowaxd financing a program which it is believed 031JIL011 uljrjinat irlr an al2sotuteabsoiatp fulfillment of themie dreams of john Hho kohlekolokoyle theltherthey semsseems to beb- little jiusonusunirzi bork4orkmortmork baibuibut what kcknlkalknikoiyieyle was a basically honeshonest manmano itjt is quite pposaszweleweieTibieihieeledie thaithattheithui he saswassagaaa& dederivedravedr1ved in the many things

gith blut he experienced in oorjtieonneiononneionelonjion ithwith his min butblat was himself no deceiver 0 hohoweverleverfever a careful amiralexamiralexexaminationpxaminationlonionfon of theahe history of theth enterprise leads one to oneononne liludede tliateliatthatr thetuefhe mine thefhe milt andarid the memory of john Hho koylekoylerkoylec stand as a monmondmnteafenienf to a pospossiblesiby siyaereosin er but blind fafaithraithralthith of a sizable group of peoplepeopleopeopled thisTHs abstract of a thesis by james R christlansonChristchristjansonlansoniansonanson Iss ac

cepceptedceptered inn itst s ppresentresen t fform0 rm by tthehe depadepartmentr tmenamen t 0off Hhistorys to ry 0off Bbrighamr ahamgham

young ununsversntyve rs i ty as satsotsatisfyings fy aqnq the thesthesiss regurequirements1 remen ts ffor0 r the degree master of artsartsoantso

UMZ 2 Ddatedacea Cchacrmanyhlccrmanaman advisory committeecommiltteecommyttee

membermemberpmemberg advisory committee

c r 4 C L Ccnbilrmanyrmanaman major deparfentdepar fenttent

typed by hermhe rm linene Bbo horman