Show GHOST CITY ONCE THRIVING metropolis TO BE JUNKED built up around great steel ant in missouri during the world war ansas city mo in the alls ot southern missouri lies hool ton that in the f t ar but now a ghost city with only meen living there with bar gentl S for the crane crow and sledge hammers of the jank the metropolis of lg ter county eight years ago figured lion ot anost unusual transact r 3 to america growing out of the tod war t ti entyre alty houses a great nt water works elec t trim plant atlon picture show ain g and building of hitrec and all improve cai 38 en sold to the iron dmd metal comply of buxa aa ty as jank j the families hat live there by girtue of alie free rent are wonder ing what the kansas cit concern will do with the homes many of the build ings seen and eight room structures are strictly modern herman conlen of the lion corn pany says he Is in a quandary as to what to do with the line homes it would be a crime to tear them down he feels there are more than two hundred houses of land in the has acres townsite te the same owners also have of umber land acres a lease on to the town are proximity in close iron mines which produced sacral in the war but metal for military uses idle now are iron demand for bea the great came in the world war the built a huge corporation iron iron plant and pig iron plant there and laid out the town tf M abot was pent on the plant workers hurried in and built the homes and buildings the hum of the powerful machinery in the great plant was heard night and day during alie and the workers went to the new city in great numbers As many as once occupied the town after the war the plant was shut down the population jobless departed leaving the alti in the aills deserted the machinery in the big steel plant Is intact and will be re claimed by the iron |