Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-05 | Page 4 | Ghost Towns of Wyoming Becoming Only Memories

Ghost Towns of Wyoming Becoming Only Memories One by one the ghost towns of Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon county in Wyoming arc are disappearing disappearing disappearing leaving only memories in the minds of pioneers Battle Rambler Dillon Rudefeha and all of t them tiem em busy thriving mining camps whose early residents dreamed of great days to come and planned the towns accordIngly accordingly accordingly accord accord- have long since been deserted and the buildings are but little more than piles of rotting wood Carbon thirty miles northeast of Saratoga is the latest town slated for oblivion Once one of the largest coal mining camps in the west it has long b been n an object of interest along the Lincoln highway y A shift in the route of the highway left the town far to the south and out of ot the sight of passing motorists The coal mines which created the towns lo were abandoned years ago and andas andas andas' andas as as as' the mines were the only excuse for the existence of the towns the inhabitants drifted away and left the buildings to the mercy of the ele ele- meats ments 1