My life of searching for gold
By Phoebe Singer
Some Tips To Guide You On your way to finding gold
IN ORDER TO START YOUR JOURNEY YOU NEED TO…… First, it is best to buy your mining permit so you don’t get arrested and get to keep the gold you mine.
Second, you will buy 3 bags of flour, 3 bags of tea, a blanket, a tent and 2 mutton. Thirdly, check out the place were your mining and chose shaft mining. See what tools you need to conduct this kind of mining. Fourth, Go to a shop were you can buy tools and buy the tools you need to do shaft mining ; Bucket, windlass , cradle and a pick. Lastly, go to the goldfields and work hard come back to town if you need more food. Did you earn enough. If not take another swing but at alluvial. Buy the tools needed for alluvial ; shovel, pick, pan or cradle.
Then get to mining again. Note both types of mining require the same amount of food each time.
MY BACKGROUND I was born in 1848 and died in the year 1901.
My mother was a nurse at saint johns hospital and worked at until she contracted a disease which would make you hallucinate and she died with the hour. Where's my father apart of the police died because of scurvy he was traveling somewhere and it is said he died of scurvy. Now days I live mining for gold so I might save my sister from a awful disease which I cant pronounce.
THE CORRECT COST OF EACH ESSENTIAL THINK A tent will cost $2 1shillings Blankets should cost $2 pr 3 bags of flour should cost 12shillings 3 bags of tea will cost 18shillings 1 bit of mutton will cost $2 16shillings Shovel will cost 12 shillings A pick will cost 12 shillings A pan will cost 12 shillings A windlass will cost 2 2shillings A cradle will cost 2 8 shillings A bucket will cost 12shillings
My permit
ME MINING