Show GHOST CITIES oF THE WEST I i No place 1 Is quite so o lonely as any anyone One ono of ot a hundred deserted mining milling Camps In t the tle e west a reminder of I fromI Which i-which Is ed In n the ne nes neis s from fromi I Gilpin county Colorado where the th last inhabitant of ot Bald Mountain dIed I More than a quarter of a 8 century I ago alien hen Colorado was wa enjo cajoling Ing a aj aI j number of mining milling booms booms Bald Moun tain tam had a population po of ot Then came the th bursting bunting of the th bubble bubbi and of ot wealth disappeared The exodus was rapid but a few held on hoping the prospects ouid b be other ether than hony barrei of the precious I meWs metals For years a little of ef miners rs and their famines families waited for a return of o the th good old eld times until only ne family was left to occupy the th doI dc- dc I camp and then came death to the th head hed of ot that family fally and the tb wIdow I and stud children wore were forced to move from the ghost city It is the story of ot a thousand mining camps which have hav sprung up In the west to disappoint the hopeful ever 1 andt miner rolner They are ar ghost cities clUes and t they tell the tales talu of or ambitions never I realized and of ot expectations which t brought deep disappointments In I them men have hav learned learned how dearly Is the prIce pric to bo paid for or following 1 a ill othe I 1 |