| Show PANACA NEV DISTRICT OF TODAY Decadence of a nourishing Mining Special Correspondence Lincoln Co Nov April 22 This old town Is not what It used to tot was the expression that greeted the writer ne of the old timers who knew In the palmy days of prosperity when the road wan thronged ith travel and all pass passed ed through for mines only 10 miles Then everybody had money but now what a change Tho railroad to takes all freight to Do la nearly dead and H left out In tho cold Rumor says that activity la about to begin In old It Is claimed that there are large bodies of low grade ores that with the Improved facilities can bo handled profitably A railroad within S miles makes a differ difference ence The Is built from to n point 10 miles from Sev Several eral properties down the wash between hero and are looking up It Is expected that a number of them will become before long Tho citizens of look for bet better ter times In tho n nr future though tha drouth has nearly ruined the range prospects No Know has fallen hero tho past winter and tho roads are deep with dust Just across the valley from Is old where the Into Wil William liam S sank o much money and where there has been In Incipient booms At one time a narrow railroad ran from to the rails and engines for which were hauled overland by team from the terminus then some hun hundreds of miles distant Tills sama railroad and rolling stock bought by the Thomas Taylor and taken over to Cedar City to build a railroad from the coal beds In Cedar to the Iron mines but the latter road wan never built Is not yet entirely abandoned a com company pany lias In project the working over of the tailings al o ot Dry valley ns tho tailings contain a of over 12 n ton |
