Show Borax Line Ends Abandonment of the Tonopah and Tidewater railroad has been an an- It was known as the famous Death Valleys Valley's Borax Line since th the team mule days Permission for giving up the ghost of the week once-a-week mixed train service service service ice on miles of track from Cru- Cru Crucero Crucero Crucero cero Calif to Beatty Nev was granted under a railroad commission commis commis- commission commission sion order Since borax ship ship- shipments shipments shipments ments stopped 12 years ago the rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road has been pared to a skeleton system The road had a payroll of 40 employees with only persons living in the strip 10 miles on either I side of the line |