unfortunately, orrville stole one too many bars. one day, a co-worker noticed him behaving suspiciously. and alerted authorities. in this case, the secret service. and they watched orrville, they watched him steal a gold bar. and they confronted him at a bus stop right outside of the mint. and orrville confessed. he did in fact, have a gold bar on him. he was sentenced to prison and spent years in eleven worth, kansas, in the federal prison there. in the 1930s, the federal government decided to move the gold reserves that were stored in san francisco to denver. they did it for a couple of reasons. probably first and foremost was the fact that they wanted to put a thousand miles of desert and mountain terrain between our gold reserves and the coast. while fort knox was under construction, virtually all of the country's gold reserves were stored at the denver mint. there has never been a greater assemble blanch gold ever in the history of the planet than there was at denver in this facility during the great depression. during world wa