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