Outfitting A Miner

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Outfitting A Miner

• By Victoria G.

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A Miners Food

• Food wasnt exactly appetizing for miners on the
  Cariboo Road
• All they ate was bacon, water, sugar, flour, and
  tea
• Food wasnt easy to come by, even though it was
  that simple
• Pretty much, the time to get food was at town,
  and you can run out of food pretty quickly in
  between
• Food could also be spoiled or stolen on the way
  by bears

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Mining Tools

• Tools were very essential to miners, without them
  they couldnt mine at all
• Some mining tools included a gold pan, shovel,
  axe, claim tags, and a gold sack
• Those are not all the tools miners had to build
  others at their claims
• Some more necessary tools were a miners/placer
  pick, a small plastic bottle, rope, nails, knife,
  hammer, a magnet, a gold sack, etc.
• Tools are used to extract gold out of the ground,
  but some are used to cook. (Example a gold pan
  can be used to cook bacon)

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Mining Survival Equipment

• Most people think all miners need are tools and
  food, but they also need survival equipment to
  survive the Cariboo Road
• To survive, miners need a change of clothes, an
  area map, matches, a compass, sleeping bag, tent,
  etc.
• Surviving isnt easy on the Cariboo Road, no one
  helps you when youre in trouble or spares you
  food and drink
• Many miners even kill each other to get to the
  gold rush before them

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Extra Things Needed To Outfit A Miner

• Miners dont always need just tools, food, and
  survival equipment
• Things such as permits and clean-up pans are
  needed
• A permit is needed to mine without it a miner
  does not have permission to stake a claim and
  mine
• A clean-up pan is needed to clean-up any messes
  you make, to keep the environment clean
• Things like this are mandatory and you must have
  them

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Interesting Facts

• If you want to be outfitted, you cant be
  outfitted as soon as youre on the road! You
  have to go to all the way to Yale get it done
• In Cariboo Runaway, the characters, Elva and Tim,
  get outfitted in Yale by Carl
• Some things they got were a pan, a bigger
  packsack, and some of Carls candy
• Outfitting a miner is a lot of work and you need
  to know exactly what theyre going to need
• You shouldnt think that outfitting a miner is
  easy because one miner might want something
  different from another