Tips and secrets on hunting


Treasure Hunting at Western Ghost Towns

If you want to have some fun and have anwas approximately 50 yards away. Fortunately
entertaining treasure hunt, try the Westernthere were other mounds of dirt and hills we
Ghost  Towns.good triangulate. We actually were almost
standing  on  top  of  the saloon foundation.
The ones I'm referring to are the ones you
need a four wheel drive vehicle to get toLooking at the old picture we determined
them. The key to finding these ghost towns iswhere the front door would have been. Most of
"research". The first place most people startthe building would have had wooden walks,
is buying a book on ghost towns in the areawith separations between the boards. If some
they are going to treasure hunt. It is bestone dropped a coin on the walk, most likely
to have a topographical map of the area also.it would drop through the floor. Since we
Another good source is the local historicaldidn't have a picture of what the saloon
society. They usually have old photographs oflooked like inside we had to guess where the
long  gone  ghost  towns.bar  might  have  been.
Let me say something about old black andMost of the buildings in these old ghost
white photographs. All the building depictedtowns are not very big, so you can set up a
in the photograph appear further away thanstring search pattern area to make sure you
the  actual  distance at the ghost town site.cover every inch. It was a lot of fun
researching  the  site.
We were searching a long gone town in SE
Arizona. We had to four wheel it for aboutOur finds that day were over 50 100 year old
1-1/2 hours to get to it. We had the Typosquare head nails, 3 "V" Nickels, one worth
map; an old picture of the town dated 1888.$35-$50. Older pennies, and a few quarters.
There were some visible adobe foundations atWe were hoping for a Gold coin, but maybe we
the site. We were looking for the old saloonwill find it over the next hill. Happy
site. Standing on a small rise we thought ittreasure hunting.



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