Thars Gold in Them Thar Hills about 1890? Mountain Green had its share of wild tales about outlaws lurking in the under¬brush or behind a rock in rugged Weber Canyon, Stories of outlaws were related as families gathered around the old kit¬chen stove on a cold winter night, much to the delight of big-eyed children. One interesting story was told re¬peatedly by Robert N. Watts of South Weber, who spent many a summer day digg¬ing for a certain cache of gold he claimed was buried around Devil's Gate or Gate¬way in Weber Canyon. This is the story: Two men and a woman from back east had panned gold in the California gold fields, then began the trip back to their homes. Riding horseback, the three caried their fortunes in saddlebags strapped behind their saddles. They got well into Weber Canyon where they were attacked by a band of outlaws who murdered the three and tossed their bodies into the swift moving River, stripp¬ing the horses of everything they carried. Their triumph was short lived, however, and they soon found themselves being persued by the local sheriff and his men. The thieves hastily dug a hole on the mountain side and buried the gold, then fled. They evidently never came back for their booty. For years Robert N. Watts spent many a summer day digging for the gold in the Devil's Gate and Gateway area. He had come into possession of an old map said to have been drawn by one of the culprits who was at that time locked up in the Ariz¬ona State Prison, which was supposed to have revealed the hiding place. The gold was never found Or was it? John Pringle of Uintah supplied a chapter to this tale of lost treasure. John had an uncle living in Peterson who claimed that he had found the cache 71 THEY MUST BE LOOKIN' FER YOU, DEADEYE!