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Article: Nevada's elegant ghost: Rhyolite.(Brief Article)
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- February 1, 2000
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Visit a forgotten boomtown just north of Las Vegas
During the town's heyday, the view from the grand Las Vegas-Tonopah Railroad Depot in Rhyolite, Nevada, swept across a mining town of 10,000. "Up there at the top of the town, you could catch a breeze, and you got a view of the entire valley below," says Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Patricia McCoy.
Costing $130,000 to build, the elegant mission-style building made a fitting partner for the opera house, the stock exchange, and the numerous hotels that had blossomed since Rhyolite's 1904 gold strike. But by the time the depot opened in 1908, Rhyolite was already dying, as mining economics hit ...