| Have you ever came upon an old building, foundation | | | | coming into the building they cleaned their boots off |
| or a big tree with carvings on it while you were | | | | by running them over the T. |
| hunting or fishing in the back country? I have, and I | | | | I have never gone back to that location with a metal |
| learned to bring my metal detector on my trips. | | | | detector, but it is marked on the map. |
| During a hunting trip a few years ago, we had | | | | Over the years we have searched sights such as the |
| four-wheeled it back into the hills of Southern | | | | old line camp. When searching around an old building |
| Arizona. We were about 2 miles from the border of | | | | such as a line camp, ranch house search around it. |
| Mexico. Southern Arizona has a lot of history. Old | | | | Most of these old timers would dig a hole outside by |
| Forts, Treasure Mines, Boot Hill, Tombstone. | | | | the building and pitch their trash in the hole. We have |
| Once we reached our hunting location, each of us | | | | found some nice old bottles and other items in the |
| went in different direction, looking for a good spot to | | | | trash hole. |
| wait for game. | | | | If there is a fairly large tree close by, check it for |
| I had hiked about two miles into the mountain when | | | | past activity. Carvings, old rope hanging on the limbs. |
| I came up on an old rock wall. This wall was made | | | | Might be a child used it as a swing. You want to |
| of"stacked" rocks about 1 foot high. I imagine it was | | | | search around the base. I remember doing one of |
| taller at one time. It was about 15 feet long. I could | | | | our hunting trips, searching a long gone mining camp |
| not figure out what a wall was doing way out in this | | | | and a large tree next to the one of the buildings. Up |
| area. No visible road or trail. I decided to sit on the | | | | about 15 feet embedded into the tree was an old |
| wall while I waited for game. So did a Rattlesnake. | | | | License plate. The tree grew around the plate where |
| Scared the living day lights out of me. I think I was | | | | only half of it was visible. You could not see the date. |
| uglier than he or she, so it slithered away. | | | | We left it there. I did not want to do any damage to |
| After about two hours and not seeing any game, I | | | | the tree. |
| decided to poke around this wall. It became apparent | | | | Look for fence post standing by itself. Miners use to |
| this wall was actually a foundation of a possible line | | | | use trees, post, walls to bury their items of value. |
| camp, ranch or part of a fort. Usually when you see | | | | At the same location, we found old milk glass, square |
| old buildings in Arizona, you normally see corrugated | | | | nails, old auto parts, old razor and few old coins. |
| roofing sheets, or wood of some type. This site had | | | | Research later indicated this mining camp shut down |
| none of those details. | | | | in 1935. |
| Needless to say, I did not have my metal detector | | | | In summary, if your going on a hunting, fishing, pack |
| that day. Using a rock I started digging around the | | | | packing or some other trip where there is an |
| wall. I came across an odd shaped piece of Iron. It | | | | opportunity to find treasure don't forget to take |
| was shaped like a "T" with one end of the top curled. | | | | your metal detector. For other treasure detecting |
| I later found out what it was from an old rancher. It | | | | tips and information please checkout Azmuletreasures |
| was a "Boot" cleaner. When the ranch hand was | | | | below. |