If you want to have fun and have a fun treasure hunt, try the Western Spirit cities.

I'm referring to are the ones who need a unit four-wheel vehicle to reach them. The key to finding these ghost towns is "research". The first place most people start is buying a book on ghost towns in the area who go to the treasure hunt. It is better to have a topographic map of the area also. Another good source is the historical society local. They usually have old photographs of ghost towns long gone.

Let me say something about the old black and white photographs. All the building shown in the photograph appear further away than the actual distance at the site of the ghost town.

We were looking for a long gone town in south – Arizona. We had four wheels for about 1-1/2 hours to get there. We had the map Typo, an old photo of the city in 1888. There were some foundations Adobe visible on the site. We looking for old saloon site. Standing on a small hill that we saw about 50 feet away. Fortunately there are other mounds of earth and triangular mountains well. In reality, almost standing on top of the foundation of the room.

As for the old image was determined that the door had been. Most of the building had wooden walks, with spaces between the tables. If someone dropped a coin in the walk, the more likely to fall through of the word. Since he had no image of what the room looked like it had in guessing where the bar could have been.

Most buildings in these old ghost towns are not very big, so you can set a string pattern search area to ensure that cover every inch. It was very fun researching the site.

We found that day were more than 50 100 years, square-headed nails, 3 "V" Nickels, a value of $ 35 – $ 50. Major currencies, and a few quarters. We expected a gold coin, but perhaps we'll find it at the next hill. Happy treasure hunting.

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