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Show Dick Thayerand Roy Rhodes dig for frontier relics in ghost town of Gold Road, Ariz., once roaring mining camp with 8,000 population. Rhodes and wife Ann check remnants of colorful past, some 100 years old. Rottles and toys are fairly common. Guns and spades are rare. Photos and Text by JAMES JOSEPH eS ts aUM aTeaeee HOUSEFLIES yy grephedra reeee MOSQUITOES rs Tg - 1967 BLACK LIGHT—GREEN LIGHT ELECTRA-CHARGE NAMEATECLae 7 . ce Headquarters for many ghost-town archeologists is Las _ Vegas, Nev., and among its most avid treasure hunters are Roy and Ann Rhodes, whose home is a museum of i snuffboxes, firearms, mustache cups, and 800 sun-blued botiles—many from fabled Wild West saloons. The Rhodeses are typicalrelic hunters who dig through some 1,000 crumpling towns in Nevada, Arizona, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Texas, Oregon, Idaho, and New Mexico. Flash floods keep bringing new treasure to the surface (miners were inveterate litterbugs). In arid regions even 75-year-old newspapers, print still legible, é have been dug up. DRIVE.NS—DAIRY BARNS— SERVICE For further information about ghost towns, write: the STATIONS—REST Phoenix News Bureau, Dept. A, 805 North Second Street, Phoenix, Ariz. 85004; the Department of Economic Development, Dept. B, State Capitol, Carson City, Nev. 89701; the California Chamber of Commerce, Dept. C, Travel and Recreation Dept., 415 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, Calif. 95814. + z é NO BAGS TO EMPTY, NO DEAD-BUGS TO CLEAN UP 5! ACTUALLY DISINTEGRATES ALL FLYING INSECTS, iil © SECONDARY ATTRACTOR: GREEN LIGHT RAY TUBE § Hz @ ELECTRA-CHARGE IS @ ULTRA POWERFUL DOUBLE LIGHT RAY BEAMS CLEAR A 3 ACRE RADIUS © PRIMARY ATTRACTOR: BLACK LIGHT RAY TUBE Recently, the Rhodeses and two friends, Dick and Helen Thayer, visited Gold Road, an old boom town some 28 miles southwest. of Kingman, Ariz. Gold Road was once — the home of 8,000 persons, but since 1940 it has been occupied mostly by desert varmints, The Rhodeses and Thayers turned up a child’s*iron piggy bank, antique bottles, and household utensils. The big prizes—six-shooters, picks, shovels, and wagon wheels—eluded them. “They’re usually three or four feet under earth,” Rhodes said, “but for the casual ghosttown hunter there’s plenty of history and nostalgia right near the surface. And all you need is a shovel.” Helen Thayer dug up a 50-year-old funnel in Gold Road, one of some 1,000 ghost towns.Relics may bring over $50. 2 Family Weekly, April 2, 1967 |