64-476: Former State Route 82 ( SR 82 ), also known as Belmont Road , is a road in Nye and Eureka counties in the U.S. state of Nevada , extending from State Route 376 (former State Route 8A ) north of Tonopah northeast to U.S. Route 50 west of Eureka via Belmont . The southern portion from SR 376 to Belmont is paved, but the northern segment is unimproved. Although still commonly referred to as State Route 82,
128-704: A casino and bar called the Rhyolite Ghost Casino, which was later turned into a small museum and curio shop that remained open into the 1970s. In 1984, Belgian artist Albert Szukalski created his sculpture The Last Supper on Golden Street near the Rhyolite railway depot. The art became part of the Goldwell Open Air Museum , an outdoor sculpture park near the southern entrance to the ghost town. Mining in and around Rhyolite after 1920 consisted mainly of working old tailings until
192-674: A prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush , thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine. Industrialist Charles M. Schwab bought the Montgomery Shoshone Mine in 1906 and invested heavily in infrastructure, including piped water, electric lines and railroad transportation, that served
256-606: A 1930 interview for Westways magazine, "The rock was green, almost like turquoise, spotted with big chunks of yellow metal, and looked a lot like the back of a frog." The Bullfrog Mining District, the Bullfrog Hills, the town of Bullfrog, and other geographical entities in the region took their name from the Bullfrog Mine. "Bullfrog" became so popular that Giant Bullfrog, Bullfrog Merger, Bullfrog Apex, Bullfrog Annex, Bullfrog Gold Dollar, Bullfrog Mogul, and most of
320-652: A Beatty school. The Rhyolite historic townsite, maintained by the Bureau of Land Management, is "one of the most photographed ghost towns in the West". Ruins include the railroad depot and other buildings, and the Bottle House, which the Famous Players Lasky Corporation , the parent of Paramount Pictures , restored in 1925 for the filming of a silent movie, The Air Mail . The ruins of
384-405: A committee of minority stockholders, suspecting that the mine was overvalued, hired a British mining engineer to conduct an inspection. The engineer's report was unfavorable, and news of this caused a sudden further decline in share value from $ 3 to 75 cents. Schwab expressed disappointment when he learned that "the wonderful high-grade [ore] that had brought [the mine] fame was confined to only
448-406: A few stringers and that what he had actually bought was a large low-grade mine." Although the mine was still profitable, by 1909 no new ore was being discovered, and the value of the remaining ore steadily decreased. In 1910, the mine operated at a loss for most of the year, and on March 14, 1911, it was closed. By then, the stock, which had fallen to 10 cents a share, slid to 4 cents and
512-608: A huge mill to process the ore. He had water piped in, paid to have an electric line run 100 miles (160 km) from a hydroelectric plant at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountain range to Rhyolite, and contracted with the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad to run a spur line to the mine. Three railroads eventually served Rhyolite. The first was the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (LVTR), which began running regular trains to
576-521: A monthly magazine, police and fire departments, a hospital, school, train station and railway depot, at least three banks, a stock exchange , an opera house, a public swimming pool and two formal church buildings. Most prominent was the three-story John S. Cook and Co. Bank on Golden Street. Finished in 1908, it cost more than $ 90,000, equivalent to $ 3,050,000 in 2023. Much of the cost went for Italian marble stairs, imported stained-glass windows, and other luxuries. The building housed brokerage offices, and
640-548: A new mine opened in 1988 on the south side of Ladd Mountain. A company known as Bond Gold built an open-pit mine and mill at the site, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Rhyolite along State Route 374. LAC Minerals acquired the mine from Bond in 1989 and established an underground mine there in 1991 after a new body of ore called the North Extension was discovered. Barrick Gold acquired LAC Minerals in 1994 and continued to extract and process ore at what became known as
704-708: A post office, as well as the bank. Other large buildings included the train depot, the three-story Overbury Bank building, and the two-story eight-room school. A miner named Tom T. Kelly built the Bottle House in February 1906 from 50,000 discarded beer and liquor bottles. Another building housed the Rhyolite Mining Stock Exchange, which opened on March 25, 1907, with 125 members, including brokers from New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other large cities. The small, modestly equipped storefront listed shares of 74 Bullfrog companies and
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#1732783658016768-416: A similar number of companies in nearby mining districts. Sixty thousand shares changed hands on the first day, and by the end of the second week the number had topped 750,000. Although the mine produced more than $ 1 million (equivalent to about $ 24 million in 2009) in bullion in its first three years, its shares declined from $ 23 a share (in historical dollars) to less than $ 3. In February 1908,
832-607: A ton, equivalent to $ 543,000 a ton in 2023. Starting as a two-man camp in January 1905, Rhyolite became a town of 1,200 people in two weeks and reached a population of 2,500 by June 1905. By then it had 50 saloons, 35 gambling tables, cribs for prostitution , 19 lodging houses, 16 restaurants, half a dozen barbers, a public bath house, and a weekly newspaper, the Rhyolite Herald . Four daily stage coaches connected Goldfield, 60 miles (97 km) to
896-607: A year. Beatty, about 500 feet (150 m) lower in elevation than Rhyolite, receives only about 6 inches (152 mm) of precipitation a year. July is the hottest month in Beatty, when the average high temperature is 97 °F (36 °C ) and the average low is 61 °F (16 °C). December and January are the coolest months with an average high of 54 °F (12 °C) and an average low of 27 °F (−3 °C) in December and 28 °F (−2 °C) in January. Rhyolite
960-492: Is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada . As of the 2020 census , the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah . At 18,159 square miles (47,030 km ), Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States , behind San Bernardino County of California and Coconino County of Arizona . Nye County comprises the Pahrump micropolitan statistical area , which
1024-467: Is about 25 miles (40 km) west of Yucca Mountain and the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository , which is adjacent to the Nevada Test Site . Bordered on three sides by ridges but open to the south, the ghost town is at 3,800 feet (1,200 m) above sea level . The high points of the ridges are Ladd Mountain to the east, Sutherland Mountain to the west, and Busch Peak to
1088-866: Is about 60 miles (97 km) south of Goldfield , and 90 miles (140 km) south of Tonopah . Roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) to the east lie Beatty and the Amargosa River. To the west, roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) from Rhyolite, the Funeral and Grapevine Mountains of the Amargosa Range rise between the Amargosa Desert in Nevada and Death Valley in California. State Route 374 , passing about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) south of Rhyolite, links Beatty to Death Valley via Daylight Pass. Rhyolite
1152-427: Is high enough in the hills to have relatively cool summers, and it has relatively mild winters. However, it is far from sources of water. On August 9, 1904, Cross and Harris found gold on the south side of a southwestern Nevada hill later called Bullfrog Mountain. Assays of ore samples from the site suggested values up to $ 3,000 a ton , or about $ 102,000 a ton in 2023 dollars when adjusted for inflation. Word of
1216-602: Is in the service area of Great Basin College . Nye County was one of the primary broadcast locations of American veteran radio broadcaster Art Bell , who was famous for creating and hosting Coast to Coast AM , Art Bell's Dark Matter and "Midnight in the Desert", the last of which continued to be broadcast on the Dark Matter Digital Network by Bell's chosen successor, Dave Schrader . Bell lived in
1280-408: Is included in the Las Vegas - Henderson combined statistical area . In 2010, Nevada's center of population was in southern Nye County, near Yucca Mountain . The Nevada Test Site and proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository are in southwestern Nye County, and are the focus of a great deal of controversy. The federal government manages 92% of the county's land. A 1987 attempt to stop
1344-467: Is located. Even as the Pahrump area grew thanks to its proximity to Las Vegas, the racial makeup of Nye County was very different from that of Clark County. Non-Hispanic whites now constitute 82.7% of the county population. African-Americans were now 1.7% of the population, which meant actual increase of the number of African Americans residing in the county was over 50%. Native Americans were only 1.8% of
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#17327836580161408-569: Is much less common. The Amargosa River , which flows through nearby Beatty , gets its name from the Spanish word for "bitter", amargo . In its course, the river takes up large amounts of salts, which give it a bitter taste. "Bullfrog" was the name Frank "Shorty" Harris and Ernest "Ed" Cross, the prospectors who started the Bullfrog gold rush, gave to their mine. As quoted by Robert D. McCracken in A History of Beatty, Nevada , Harris said during
1472-596: Is one of 10 Nevada counties where prostitution is legal . The county has no incorporated cities. The seat of government in Tonopah is 160 miles (260 km) from Pahrump, where about 86% of the county's population resides. Nye County was established during the American Civil War in 1864 and named after James W. Nye, the first governor of the Nevada Territory and later a U.S. Senator after it
1536-621: Is private land; most of it is public land managed by the federal government. Before the Treaty of Ruby Valley, the whole area was controlled by the Western Shoshone people, who say they never ceded territory here. According to the United States Census Bureau the county's Census Tract 9805, with a land area of 4,225.415 square miles (10,943.77 km ), comprising the Nevada Test Site and Nye County's portion of
1600-575: The Nevada Test and Training Range , is the country's largest census tract that has no resident population (as of the 2000 census ). Las Vegas , in Clark County , is 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Yucca Mountain. Many Pahrump residents commute 60 miles (97 km) each way to Las Vegas via Nevada State Route 160 , which for much of its length is a four-lane divided highway. In 2018, Nye county launched its own transit service for
1664-524: The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad . After the boom died, Nye County withered. By 1910, the population had plummeted to about 7,500 before sinking to near 3,000 in the middle of the century. With development at the military test site and increasing employment and resources, the population stabilized. After the 1990s, when Pahrump became a bedroom community for Las Vegas, it had high rates of population growth. Periodically, discussions have arisen of moving
1728-596: The Western Shoshone people indigenous to the region. In about 1875, the Shoshone had six camps along the Amargosa River near Beatty. The total population of these camps was 29, and because game was scarce, they subsisted largely on seeds, bulbs and plants gathered throughout the region, including the Bullfrog Hills. The Bullfrog Hills are at the western edge of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field. Extensionally faulted volcanic rocks, ranging in age from about 13.3 million years to about 7.6 million years, overlie
1792-596: The census reported only 675 residents. All three banks in the town closed by March 1910. The newspapers, including the Rhyolite Herald , the last to go, all shut down by June 1912. The post office closed in November 1913; the last train left Rhyolite Station in July 1914, and the Nevada-California Power Company turned off the electricity and removed its lines in 1916. Within a year the town
1856-416: The 1920s, and souvenir sellers set up tables in Rhyolite to sell rocks and bottles on weekends. In the 1930s, Revert Mercantile of Beatty acquired a Union Oil distributorship, built a gas station in Beatty, and supplied pumps in other locations, including Rhyolite. The Rhyolite service station consisted of an old caboose , a storage tank, and a pump, managed by a local owner. In 1937, the train depot became
1920-405: The Bullfrog district, only Beatty survived as a populated place. Prior to its demise, the rival town of Bullfrog lay about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) southwest of Rhyolite, and the Montgomery Shoshone Mine was on the north side of Montgomery Mountain, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Rhyolite. Nevada's main climatic features are bright sunshine, low annual precipitation, heavy snowfall in
1984-571: The Centers for Disease Control, the annual suicide rate in Nye County averaged 28.7561 per 100,000 people during 1989–1998, the most recent period for which data is available. This was the third-highest rate among Nevada counties, behind White Pine (34.3058) and Lyon County (30.8917), but ahead of the overall rate of 22.96 for Nevada, which leads the nation. At the 2010 census , there were 43,946 people, 18,032 households, and 11,929 families in
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2048-523: The Cook Bank building were used in the 1964 film The Reward and again in 2004 for the filming of The Island . Orion Pictures used Rhyolite for its 1988 science-fiction movie Cherry 2000 depicting the collapse of American society. Six-String Samurai (1998) was another movie using Rhyolite as a setting. The Rhyolite-Bullfrog cemetery, with many wooden headboards, is slightly south of Rhyolite. Tourism flourished in and near Death Valley in
2112-483: The base of Ladd Mountain, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Rhyolite. The Goldwell Open Air Museum lies on private property just south of the ghost town, which is on property overseen by the Bureau of Land Management . The town is named for rhyolite , an igneous rock composed of light-colored silicates , usually buff to pink and occasionally light gray. It belongs to the same rock class, felsic , as granite but
2176-498: The blocks, the ore deposits tend to occur in nearly vertical mineralized faults or fault zones in the rhyolite. Most of the lodes in the Bullfrog Hills are not simple veins but rather fissure zones with many stringers of vein material. Rhyolite is at the northern end of the Amargosa Desert in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. Nestled in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, it
2240-711: The city on December 14, 1906. Its depot, built in California-mission style, cost about $ 130,000, equivalent to about $ 4,410,000 in 2023. About a half-year later, the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BGR) began regular service from the north. By December 1907, the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (TTR) began service to Rhyolite on tracks leased from the BGR. The TTR was built to reach the borax -bearing colemanite beds in Death Valley as well as
2304-409: The county seat to Pahrump, or splitting off the southern portion of the county, but neither of these ideas appears to have sufficient support in the county or state government. From 1987 to 1989, Bullfrog County, Nevada , was split off from Nye County to form a separate political region. Its population was zero; its creation was an attempt to stop a nuclear waste storage facility from being built in
2368-604: The county until his death on April 13, 2018. 38°03′N 116°27′W / 38.05°N 116.45°W / 38.05; -116.45 Rhyolite, Nevada Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County , in the U.S. state of Nevada . It is in the Bullfrog Hills , about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas , near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park . The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after
2432-447: The county was 90.0% White , 1.18% Black or African American , 1.96% Native American , 0.78% Asian , 0.32% Pacific Islander , 2.98% from other races, and 3.15% from two or more races. 8.35%. were Hispanic or Latino of any race. In 2006 there were 42,693 people living in Nye County, representing a growth of 31.3% since 2000. This was slightly faster growth rate than recorded during the same period for Clark County, where Las Vegas
2496-455: The county. The population density was 2.4 inhabitants per square mile (0.93 inhabitants/km ). There were 22,350 housing units at an average density of 1.2 units per square mile (0.46 units/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 85.9% white, 2.0% black or African American, 1.6% American Indian, 1.3% Asian, 0.5% Pacific islander, 5.2% from other races, and 3.5% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 13.6% of
2560-414: The discovery spread to Tonopah and beyond, and soon thousands of hopeful prospectors and speculators rushed to what became known as the Bullfrog Mining District. Within the district, gold rush settlements quickly arose near the mines, and Rhyolite became the largest. It sprang up near the most promising discovery, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, which in February 1905 produced ores assayed as high as $ 16,000
2624-559: The district's other 200 or so mining companies included "Bullfrog" in their names. The name persisted and, decades later, was given to the short-lived Bullfrog County . Beatty is named after "Old Man" Montillus (Montillion) Murray Beatty, a Civil War veteran and miner who bought a ranch along the Amargosa River just north of what became the town of Beatty. In 1906, he sold the ranch to the Bullfrog Water, Power, and Light Company. "Shoshone" in "Montgomery Shoshone Mine" refers to
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2688-508: The financial panic of 1907 made it more difficult to raise development capital. In 1908, investors in the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, concerned that it was overvalued, ordered an independent study. When the study's findings proved unfavorable, the company's stock value crashed, further restricting funding. By the end of 1910, the mine was operating at a loss, and it closed in 1911. By this time, many out-of-work miners had moved elsewhere, and Rhyolite's population dropped well below 1,000. By 1920, it
2752-685: The gold fields. By 1907, about 4,000 people lived in Rhyolite, according to Richard E. Lingenfelter in Death Valley & the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion . Russell R. Elliott cites an estimated population of 5,000 in 1907–08 in Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom , noting that "accurate population figures during the boom are impossible to obtain". Alan H. Patera in Rhyolite: The Boom Years states published estimates of
2816-444: The higher mountains, clean, dry air, and large daily temperature ranges. Strong surface heating occurs by day and rapid cooling by night, and usually even the hottest days have cool nights. The average percentage of possible sunshine in southern Nevada is more than 80 percent. Sunshine and low humidity in this region account for an average evaporation, as measured in evaporation pans , of more than 100 inches (2,500 mm) of water
2880-489: The highway is not maintained by the Nevada Department of Transportation . It was eliminated as a state route as part of a Nevada state route renumbering project that began in 1976. The highway last appeared as a state route in the 1980 edition of the official Nevada Highway Map. This Nevada road-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nye County, Nevada Nye County
2944-499: The north, and Rhyolite. Rival auto lines ferried people between Rhyolite and Goldfield and the rail station in Las Vegas in Pope-Toledos , White Steamers , and other touring cars. Ernest Alexander "Bob" Montgomery, the original owner, and his partners sold the mine to industrialist Charles M. Schwab in February 1906. Schwab expanded the operation on a grand scale, hiring workers, opening new tunnels and drifts , and building
3008-522: The north. Sawtooth Mountain, the highest point in the Bullfrog Hills, rises to 6,002 feet (1,829 m) above sea level about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Rhyolite. The hills form a barrier between the Amargosa Desert and Sarcobatus Flat to the north. Most of the primary mining communities in the Beatty–Rhyolite area during the gold-rush boom of 1904–08 were either in or on the edge of the Bullfrog Hills. Of these and many smaller towns and camps in
3072-480: The nuclear waste site resulted in the creation of Bullfrog County, Nevada , which was dissolved two years later. The county has several environmentally sensitive areas, including Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge , the White River Valley , several Great Basin sky islands , and part of Death Valley National Park . Visitors to Death Valley often stay at Beatty or Amargosa Valley . Nye County
3136-463: The peak population have been "as high as 6,000 or 8,000, but the town itself never claimed more than 3,500 through its newspapers". The newspapers estimated that 6,000 people lived in the Bullfrog mining district, which included the towns of Rhyolite, Bullfrog, Gold Center, and Beatty as well as camps at the major mines. Rhyolite in 1907 had concrete sidewalks, electric lights, water mains, telephone and telegraph lines, daily and weekly newspapers,
3200-486: The population now. Asians were a full one percent of the population. Pacific Islanders were 0.5% of the population and Latinos made up 11.0% of the population. Of the 13,309 households 16.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.30% were married couples living together, 7.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.90% were non-families. 25.70% of households were one person and 10.30% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size
3264-444: The population. In terms of ancestry, 18.6% were German , 15.8% were English , 14.7% were Irish , 10.3% were American , and 6.1% were Italian . Of the 18,032 households, 25.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 33.8% were non-families, and 26.8% of households were made up of individuals. The average household size
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#17327836580163328-477: The region's Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. The prevailing rocks, which contain the ore deposits, are a series of rhyolitic lava flows that built to a combined thickness of about 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above the more ancient rock. After the flows ceased, tectonic stresses fractured the area into many separate fault blocks . Most of these blocks tilt to the east, and the horizontal banding of individual flows shows clearly on their western scarps . Within
3392-424: The region. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has an area of 18,199 square miles (47,140 km ), of which 18,182 square miles (47,090 km ) is land and 17 square miles (44 km ) (0.09%) is water. The highest and most topographically prominent mountain in the county is Mount Jefferson at 11,949 feet (3,642 m). Nye County is in south-central Nevada. It is Nevada's largest county and
3456-491: The state capital, Carson City . Beatty and Tonopah both rely heavily on through traffic to sustain their economies. As of 2006, an average of 2,000 cars daily traveled U.S. 95 near Tonopah. At the 2000 census there were 32,485 people, 13,309 households, and 9,063 families in the county. The population density was 2 people per square mile (0.77 people/km ). There were 15,934 housing units at an average density of 1 units per square mile (0.39/km ). The racial makeup of
3520-572: The third-largest county in the contiguous United States, after San Bernardino County in California and Coconino County in Arizona . Nye County's land area of 11,560,960 acres (46,785.5 km ) is larger than that of Maryland , Hawaii , Vermont , and New Hampshire , and larger than the combined area of Massachusetts , Rhode Island , New Jersey , and Delaware . Of this vast land area, only 822,711 acres (3,329.39 km ), or just over 7%,
3584-464: The town as well as the mine. By 1907, Rhyolite had electric lights, water mains, telephones, newspapers, a hospital, a school, an opera house, and a stock exchange . Published estimates of the town's peak population vary widely, but scholarly sources generally place it in a range between 3,500 and 5,000 in 1907–08. Rhyolite declined almost as rapidly as it rose. After the richest ore was exhausted, production fell. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and
3648-400: The town of Pahrump named Pahrump Valley Public Transportation. In 2023, Pahrump Valley Public Transportation launch demand response service to Beatty and Amargosa Valley For Senior Transportation/Paratransit transportation services is directly provided by Nye County Transportation Services department Nye County has a long stretch of U.S. Route 95 , the main road connecting Las Vegas with
3712-665: Was "all but abandoned", and the 1920 census reported a population of only 14. A 1922 motor tour by the Los Angeles Times found only one remaining resident, a 92-year-old man who died in 1924. Much of Rhyolite's remaining infrastructure became a source of building materials for other towns and mining camps. Whole buildings were moved to Beatty. The Miners' Union Hall in Rhyolite became the Old Town Hall in Beatty, and two-room cabins were moved and reassembled as multi-room homes. Parts of many buildings were used to build
3776-405: Was $ 41,642. Males had a median income of $ 37,276 versus $ 22,394 for females. The county's per capita income was $ 17,962. About 7.30% of families and 10.70% of the population were below the poverty line , including 13.10% of those under age 18 and 8.30% of those age 65 or over. Like many rural counties of the western United States, Nye County experiences a relatively high suicide rate. According to
3840-410: Was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.90. The age distribution was 3.70% under the age of 18, 5.40% from 18 to 24, 24.00% from 25 to 44, 58.50% from 45 to 64, and 18.40% 65 or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females there were 105.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.70 males. The county's median household income was $ 36,024, and the median family income
3904-680: Was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.90. The median age was 48.4 years. The median household income was $ 41,181 and the median family income was $ 50,218. Males had a median income of $ 51,574 versus $ 32,152 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 22,687. About 14.2% of families and 18.9% of the population were below the poverty line , including 27.8% of those under age 18 and 9.8% of those age 65 or over. The Nye County School District serves all of Nye County. High school students in Esmeralda County go to Tonopah High School of Nye County School District. The county
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#17327836580163968-432: Was admitted as a state. The first county seat was Ione in 1864, followed by Belmont in 1867, and finally Tonopah in 1905. The county's first boom came in the early 20th century, when Rhyolite and Tonopah , as well as Goldfield in nearby Esmeralda County , had gold- and silver-mining booms. In 1906, Goldfield had 30,000 residents, Tonopah nearly 10,000, and Rhyolite peaked at about 10,000. These cities were linked by
4032-411: Was close to zero. After 1920, Rhyolite and its ruins became a tourist attraction and a setting for motion pictures. Most of its buildings crumbled, were salvaged for building materials, or were moved to nearby Beatty or other towns, although the railway depot and a house made chiefly of empty bottles were repaired and preserved. From 1988 to 1998, three companies operated a profitable open-pit mine at
4096-501: Was dropped from the exchanges. Rhyolite began to decline before the final closing of the mine. At roughly the same time that the Bullfrog mines were running out of high-grade ore, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake diverted capital to California while interrupting rail service, and the financial panic of 1907 restricted funding for mine development. As mines in the district reduced production or closed, unemployed miners left Rhyolite to seek work elsewhere, businesses failed, and by 1910,
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