Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-31 | Page 29 | Death Valley 'Ghost Towns' Live in Fame

i i ATH S GHOST TOWNS TOWNS' st lIV IN f w 11 Impressive L i a Concrete Shells Shell and Bottle Boule House Recall Recall Re- Re call City of t. t DEATH VALLEr VALLEY Cal Cat UP UP- UP Cities ClUes as welt well as hardy pioneers r reburied 9 buried in Death valley vaHey Such Stich famous ghost towns as Greenwater Panamint and Skidoo to mention only ottly four tour aro All Alln in tho the region relon however how hO however ever er w was s' s the th only town ever er built on Ol on the floor of ot the valley In 1906 and 1907 a deceptive copper copper cop cop- per cr lodo rought 2500 2600 residents to the tho sto of of the shaft hat and a n. town a. a optimistically called Greenwater hurst burst into shanty existence The titling 1 of or the town was as Indeed hap hap- happy py py Bint since a th there rc kc was was' neither water nor 1101 green greene e A mi miserable hillside well the owner of got almost as ad much for tor his water rater as the saloonkeepers did for or tr trucked M ck Ori b beer cr was th only anywhere in tho neighborhood At After rt two years the shaft abaft h Ct had produced produced pro pro- Wo tto Q carloads of ore and the town was abandoned to the desolation of the tho valle valley from which it had been claimed RHYOLITE FAMOUS across S the Nevada ada line t Is la perhaps tho the mo most t famous ghost city in jn the country Twenty four years cars a ago o 10 people called Ith it ithone hone home h m Several S 'S Impressive concrete shells shells' are aro still standing the standing tho three- three etory story bank bank tho schoolhouse and the h railroad depot flanking by bya a a. roadbed d from which the tracks have been removed rio bo most unusual building In is 13 the famous bottle 1 house u e the walls of ot which aro are en entirely en- en constructed of or bottles c ce cemented cemented ce- ce nt together with adobe The miners were efficient ef drinkers drInkers' of oC hard beverages bc so tho the architect of ot the bottle house was never at toss loss oss for building material As a matter of ot fact hundreds of miles of ot railroad have been uproot uproot- ed cd A stretch of over miles between et Rhyolite Beatty Goldfield and Las Vegas has been torn tom up Death Valley Scotty of or special tr tri train ln n fame m b bought the telegraph r lph wires for a private Me circuit and the ties tics for kindling wood DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY In contrast to tho ghost cities o of et the old mining camps And to the other towns like which are u-e mere mero stalking specters of or their their- former selves is Ss tho the bustle of activity I at Furnace Creek ranch and at Death Valley Scotts luxurious hacienda in Gr Grapevine can canyon on Tho which otty is building and the tho up-to- up date resort hotel at Furnace Creek lit nn in which a new wing has Just b been ben en added are the only signs of oC activity In this region of ot the dead With the dismantling of ot tho railroad railroad rail rail- road north of ot the valley alley the only approach ch by rail raJI is now from tho over over the tho regularly cst established ln j Junket tet from Lo Los Angeles to Death Valley alley all Junction and Ryan Track And equipment over this line are aro in m excellent shape and the tho won wonderful attractions attractions' of ot Death Drath valley as a aInt Winter Int r resort insure permanent maintenance