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date: 2007-07-21
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# Four-Wheeling in the Wasatch Front
[![Dream Mine Monument](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/dscn0815-small1.jpg)](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2007/07/dscn0815-small.JPG)

Here's a closer view of what it says:

[![Koyle Inscription about Origins of Dream Mine](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/dscn0813-small1.jpg)](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2007/07/dscn0813-small.JPG)

Apparently, on January, 10, 1914, John Koyle says he received a visit from two messengers (in a dream?) telling him gold was located in this mountain, and that he should mine it to deliver Utah from poverty. This is the origin of the "Dream Mine," so named in reference to the visit.

[![Danger Keep Out sign](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/dscn0817-small1.jpg)](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2007/07/dscn0817-small.JPG)

Although the main mining shafts are sealed off with bars, a couple of off-shoots are still accessible. This one has a large Danger sign in front of it.

[![Descending the mine shaft](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/dscn0821-small1.jpg)](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2007/07/dscn0821-small.JPG)

I'm not one to enter abandoned mine shafts with keep out signs, but they didn't go down that far, and someone we knew had already explored them thoroughly (since childhood). At the bottom of the mining shaft, a steeper shaft opened off to the side that dropped down about 200 feet. We threw rocks down the steeper shaft and didn't hear anything for a while. The rocks sailed quietly for a few seconds, bounced off the sides of walls, clinked on metal a few times, and continued their long descent to an unknown bottom. Koyle never found any gold, but you can still buy stock in the Dream Mine.

[![beautiful Aspen trees](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/dscn0822-small1.jpg)](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2007/07/dscn0822-small.JPG)