| If you want to have some fun and have an | | | | was approximately 50 yards away. Fortunately |
| entertaining treasure hunt, try the Western | | | | there 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 to | | | | Looking at the old picture we determined |
| them. The key to finding these ghost towns is | | | | where the front door would have been. Most of |
| "research". The first place most people start | | | | the building would have had wooden walks, |
| is buying a book on ghost towns in the area | | | | with separations between the boards. If some |
| they are going to treasure hunt. It is best | | | | one 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 historical | | | | didn't have a picture of what the saloon |
| society. They usually have old photographs of | | | | looked like inside we had to guess where the |
| long gone ghost towns. | | | | bar might have been. |
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| Let me say something about old black and | | | | Most of the buildings in these old ghost |
| white photographs. All the building depicted | | | | towns are not very big, so you can set up a |
| in the photograph appear further away than | | | | string 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 about | | | | Our finds that day were over 50 100 year old |
| 1-1/2 hours to get to it. We had the Typo | | | | square 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 at | | | | We were hoping for a Gold coin, but maybe we |
| the site. We were looking for the old saloon | | | | will find it over the next hill. Happy |
| site. Standing on a small rise we thought it | | | | treasure hunting. |