FCSLC Wrote:
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> I think it’s accurate. I gave $6000.00 to John
> Hostetter and someone he was traveling with ( ?
> Paul Holder) when they visited the Salt Lake City
> church. I was 23 at the time and had saved nearly
> all my earnings from active duty during my
> exciting time in Vietnam. I don’t remember
> getting an official receipt or legitimate stock
> certificate, but there was some sort of a ‘thank
> you’ with a Western Ore Reduction Co. heading on
> the note.
>
> That was it. No further communication except for
> what was heard through the grapevine in the
> membership. I didn’t take an investment loss
> due to extremely poor documentation (mentioned
> above) and I didn’t have any investment gains
> for an offset anyway. Never made another
> investment since.
>
> Of course, at the time I didn’t care. God was
> in charge and the Kingdom was dawning and I was
> high on worldwide futility finally being put down
> by the honest and loving Saints of the Most High.
I know one individual that appreciated your donation and still does to this day......me.
I am sure one or two dollars got thru to the operation on the ground. We were busy: I got to drive the scraper or pan (this piece of s*** was very old and tired by the time it came to the mine), there was an old military jeep, a pick up truck that got the back window broken out and never got a new one (you had to wear eye protection like goggles because the sand would get in your eyes)a few mobile homes without utilities and an bunkhouse for the men. Don't forget the outhouse and whom contributed to digging the hole for that s***. We had a water tower that heated the water a bit(it was painted black) and in the summer they let water out into a concrete trough. Little Paul and I would sit in the trough and wait for that cold water. It was the greatest recreation in a place where the daytime Temps were over 120 in the shade.
To bath we had to boil water and put it in the bathtub. This kept the girls out of the bathroom for protracted periods of time.
My mom often cooked for everyone and for years and years after we left the mine she could not cook lower volume meals. We had leftovers forever!
Anyhow, I digress. The money (or some of it) went to feed and house the families that had moved there and provide those state of the art facilities we inhabited. There was an old centrifuge that worked a few times that I can recall. The biggest problem was keeping
the diesel generator running so we could have water.
I should write a book on our time at the mine, maybe someone would get some closure and value from knowing that there were people on the other end that lived on whatever was left of the money after the scammers took their reward.
I hate to find out that we existed on the backs of others, particularly veterans but I think that was largely how The Walk operated.
If it wasn't the mine there would have been some other scheme to defraud the congregants and part them with their cash. That was the goal.
In all sincerity I do thank you and anyone whom donated money as it certainly did provide food and shelter.
God bless!
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> I think it’s accurate. I gave $6000.00 to John
> Hostetter and someone he was traveling with ( ?
> Paul Holder) when they visited the Salt Lake City
> church. I was 23 at the time and had saved nearly
> all my earnings from active duty during my
> exciting time in Vietnam. I don’t remember
> getting an official receipt or legitimate stock
> certificate, but there was some sort of a ‘thank
> you’ with a Western Ore Reduction Co. heading on
> the note.
>
> That was it. No further communication except for
> what was heard through the grapevine in the
> membership. I didn’t take an investment loss
> due to extremely poor documentation (mentioned
> above) and I didn’t have any investment gains
> for an offset anyway. Never made another
> investment since.
>
> Of course, at the time I didn’t care. God was
> in charge and the Kingdom was dawning and I was
> high on worldwide futility finally being put down
> by the honest and loving Saints of the Most High.
I know one individual that appreciated your donation and still does to this day......me.
I am sure one or two dollars got thru to the operation on the ground. We were busy: I got to drive the scraper or pan (this piece of s*** was very old and tired by the time it came to the mine), there was an old military jeep, a pick up truck that got the back window broken out and never got a new one (you had to wear eye protection like goggles because the sand would get in your eyes)a few mobile homes without utilities and an bunkhouse for the men. Don't forget the outhouse and whom contributed to digging the hole for that s***. We had a water tower that heated the water a bit(it was painted black) and in the summer they let water out into a concrete trough. Little Paul and I would sit in the trough and wait for that cold water. It was the greatest recreation in a place where the daytime Temps were over 120 in the shade.
To bath we had to boil water and put it in the bathtub. This kept the girls out of the bathroom for protracted periods of time.
My mom often cooked for everyone and for years and years after we left the mine she could not cook lower volume meals. We had leftovers forever!
Anyhow, I digress. The money (or some of it) went to feed and house the families that had moved there and provide those state of the art facilities we inhabited. There was an old centrifuge that worked a few times that I can recall. The biggest problem was keeping
the diesel generator running so we could have water.
I should write a book on our time at the mine, maybe someone would get some closure and value from knowing that there were people on the other end that lived on whatever was left of the money after the scammers took their reward.
I hate to find out that we existed on the backs of others, particularly veterans but I think that was largely how The Walk operated.
If it wasn't the mine there would have been some other scheme to defraud the congregants and part them with their cash. That was the goal.
In all sincerity I do thank you and anyone whom donated money as it certainly did provide food and shelter.
God bless!