It should be understood from the start that relic shooting the boom towns of Washington, or any other state, is a far more enjoyable hobby for the whole family, than it is a get-rich-quick scheme. There is still wealth in those mountains. There always was, there is now, and there will always be old rare and valuable coins, jewelry, trinkets, square nails, and artifacts resting undetected where they were lost or hidden away many years ago.


          Old tobacco tins such as this can sometimes reveal small caches

          Gold and silver caches are still right where their depositors secretly buried them, for sometimes sickness, accidents, exposure, or other abrupt fatal mishaps which prevented them from being recovered by their owners. Small caches of coins fall into the same pattern, as do the fewer larger caches. Circumstances sometimes canceled any knowledge of these caches and ended any chance of recovery. Coins & artifacts were lost, perhaps not as many as in these modern and easier times, and rest where they fell in the floor foundations, streets, and boardwalks of yesteryear.

          Even so, those overgrown paths & boom town streets are not paved with gold and silver. Perhaps this is why finding such a relic of hundred years past is so rewarding, as is the search for such items.