Show DERELICTS OF BYGONE DAYS BODIE AND AURORA PICTURED bodie california is absolutely quiet but J S cain now there is confident that a new era of production is sure to follow an extensive development campaign much unexplored ground is in the noonday and other southend sout hend properties and it is mr cains plan to operate on a large scale the standard mill is in good condition and repair and ore production will find all ready for turning out bullion mr cain told editor chalfant of the inyo register of bishop that he expects to stay there until things are moving again the famous old camp is something of a surprise to one visiting it for the first time in many years through b streets which were once busy the places where the flowing bowl reigned and the bad man provided work for theun the undertaker der taker are quiet old buildings lean together for mutual support and the ravages of fire and storm are plain yet many buildings stand good enough to be repaired and mide made serviceable for a considerable degree of business I 1 dry bones of aurora arror still rattle aurora a dozen miles beyond is no less interesting to the visitor it is a deserted village ip in truth for during a recent journey not a human being not a sign of animal life of any kind was found a mong among the empty buildings building which stand as monuments to a pat past day there is a three story brick hotel and a number of two story bricks some showing good repair some showing evidence of coming dissolution the building once used as a courthouse has its jail hospitably open for any comer with a chain shackled to the floor of one cell and in another four coffin lids without the corresponding boxes on which to use them the largest room in the building where possibly court sessions were held was converted to the purpose of a barroom during the attempted revival effort made by wingfield some six six or eight year ago the bar is there and behind it a large bevel glass mirror still valuable and I 1 sound A safe still occupies one corner of the room street reveals below a broken A gap in the principal brick sewer probably about four feet in diameter er thera are buildings along the street which would not be out of place in any good sized town some of them in good enough condition to be used if it were possible to transport them bodily as they stand sonic some places are barred from the curious by iron doors others less protected have big doors from which the glass has been broken and through which one can pass to see the odds and ends of merchandise left when the storekeeper packed up what he considered worth moving to some other place A tattered and weathered curtain still flaps from a broken window in a lodge hall in one place is an old hearse on which it is said the estate of the owner still pays taxes though it is as dead for possible service as the bodies it once transported to their last resting places the brick construction of aurora exempted it from the mining camp fate of wholesale fire and to a less degree from the ravages of the elements so that today and for many years ahead it will present the appearance of a town from which the inhabitants have bastil hastily y fled |