While working on the Dream Mine dugway, June 17, 1934, I was standing
with a pick on my shoulder talking to Bishop John H. Koyle, when the
spirit of prophecy came over him, and pointing to me, he said, "Just as
sure as you stand there with that pick on your shoulder, the time will
come when you young men will have to defend this land against factions
that will come here against us. You will defend it by the power of the
Priesthood.
"They will send an army out here worse than Johnston's
Army to put us down. They will offer protection to all who will deny
their faith and surrender to them. And all the Gentiles will go over to
them and about one third of the Mormons. Then when they are ready to
completely destroy those of us who defy them, something will prevent
them from doing it.
"During that time this dugway will serve as a
means to refuge for many of our people with their supplies. We take
cover in the safety of the tunnels until that army is destroyed together
with all who surrender.
"Following this, we will also have the
Russians to fight, and they will get half way across this country before
they are put down." (--To the Missouri River.)
I noticed that he was
somewhat shaken by this experience, and that he had to sit down to
recover his strength. Later when I had discovered the Bulkley and
Farnsworth visions about the U.S. Army coming against Zion, I learned
that Bishop Koyle had never heard of them, and that he had no previous
knowledge of the "U.S. Army worse than Johnston's coming against Utah."
When
he had recovered enough to talk about it, I then pointed out that the
tunnels would not offer much protection against an army. He then told me
that the importance of the tunnels would be understood when this time
came. Of course, I did not know in 1934, as I know today, that we would
be taking refuge from the wrath of God upon the army and all who would
surrender to it, when "the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat." (II Peter, 3:12) And "the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the
sun shall be sevenfold." (See Isaiah, 30:26.)Oddly enough, a dugway
that was constructed in 1934, many years after the dream was given,
divided the ravine in which the main tunnel is located, into three
segments; a short one, a long one, and another short one. And in like
manner the history of the mine may be divided into three sections:--a
relatively short one from 1894 to 1914, free from any troublesome
opposition; --then a long one from 1914 to 1949, the time of Bishop
Koyle's death, which was a long period of 35 years full of all manner of
opposition from the Church, State, and Nation; and then the third
period from his death to the present time, during which the mine has
been rather dormant with little more than enough activity to justify the
assessment work and keep a legal hold on the claims. The full symbolic
vindication of the Green Spot is now due.
Although Bishop Koyle did
not point out this similarity to my knowledge, he did feel inspired to
build a secluded Green Spot in this third ravine, a sort of Holy of
Holies, a Sanctum Sanctorium, where he and his close friends could
retire for the more special matters of prayer and meditation. It was
here that he and Will A. Jones, his secretary, and Henry Armstrong, his
chief source of financial aid during the twenties, were granted another
vision of the Three Nephite Apostles. And in answer to their prayer a
piece of ore that had assayed worthless, but which Bishop Koyle had been
shown should assay rich, now did assay rich when they took the same
piece of rock back to Tintic for a second assay.
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