Ghost Towns Research Paper

Table of contents
Introduction
Tools
Routes
Ghost towns/Closing

Introduction In this book you will about the tools that the forty niners used and some of the Routes the forty niners used and ghost towns.

Tools The pioneers in the gold rush used tools to find gold better. I am going to tell you about them. The most common tool for mining was the pan. You won’t find as much gold as using a pickaxe, but it is the easiest method of mining. Also in the gold rush if you didn’t clean your pan when you go to bed you would end up with a rusty mess the next day.

This a gold pan used now with plastic instead of metal.

You could also use a cradle or a lomtom. A cradle would find more gold than a pan, but it took two