A Few Ghost Town Finds from Friday

[William-NM]

I thought I'd spend Friday the 13th in the company of some ghosts, so headed back up to Fierro. I hunted around a couple of ruins and located the old jail. Found a few relics, not too much to brag about, but as it's quiet in the forums.....
I like the broad axe - it looks like he used the axe head as a splitting wedge, then, after it broke, continued to use the front half as a wedge. I found the heel deep under a big rock in front of the home and the blade out back. I also like the little copper or brass pin of a maple leaf (sans pinback), and the scissors fragment, looks like little sewing scissors.

Boy, is it iron loaded - nails and cans. I might get a magnetic rake for these sites. I could tell that they have been hunted by the telltale piles of iron trash. Here's my little magnet before and after dragging it through the soil:

Here's one of the ruins:

Always plenty of shafts to tumble into (the first one is filled with water to about 6' from the top)

The jail has seen better days - the locals seem to enjoy using any abandoned structure as a trash dump.

They had a fancy outhouse, with the fixture in one room (at left) and emptying into a metal covered cesspool (right). I saw glass and got excited, but all the glass in the top foot or 2 was broken - I might do a little more digging sometime.

Well, that's it for today - luck in the hunt to all!!

 

[Salida]

Someone should organize the Boy Scouts of America to go in and clean the place up.
Salida

 

[GoGoGopher]

Very neat old site...I like that old jail...Boy if walls could speak...

HH,

 

[William-NM]

Thanks, Gopher - yeah, that's what I like about the ghost towns - I'm always imagining the people and how they lived, using the relics I come across. They worked so hard - just the fencing - argh - building a house, leveling out and tilling, and so many of them died untimely deaths or couldn't make it work and moved on in a couple of years. I kind of feel like I get to know them through the hunts.

 

[Hank68]

Very cool place to relic hunt, looks like something out of the movies, I would love to detect a ghost town! Conrats

 

[BigCatDaddy]

You were just taunting fate going to a death-trap site like that on Friday the 13th!! Glad you made it out alive. I loved the pics, especially the magnet, and I'm going with Giant Robot wind up key theory!!

 

[John-Edmonton]

.That place looks similar to places in Edmonton, where the druggies and homeless people move in and make a stinking mess. Ans wow....is that soil ever mineralized! Nice flat sax you got.

 

[William-NM]

Thanks, guys! Yep, BCD, I think there's a giant robot on the loose! It can't be a coincidence that it was in Fierro (Spanish for Iron) - probably upgrading its weaponry!
John, same around here, detecting takes me to places where the homeless & druggies hang out, what a mess.. Yesterday I did some swinging around a defunct skating rink near the old train depot and found 50 pennies in a 3' radius in the alley, another panhandler dump. At least they could have left a dime or two