Show COAST CITIES OF WEST AWAY once prosperous Pro perou towns dying of dry rot deriver denver the cousin jacks the prospectors after gold are passing eardly a week now goes hy by but word comes down that anothy r has been found lead dead in a rott rotting ing cabin in the ghost cities that dot the high country of colorado and the mining west the towns many of them are dying too once well worn streets are gross grass grown and pack rats haunt the buildings central city Is perhaps the most striking example of the cha change ge thirty years ago it ft boasted a population of 12 today there axe aie approximately matel persons there president grant and his daughter visited central city and the residents paved tho the sidewalk from tho the street to the old teller house with gold block black hawk near central city Is in the same plight some old tunnels have been opened a few people e work them but vacant houses stand row on row many of the towns are virtually without inhabitants except for one or two old prospectors who still dream that the boom days das will return ne va daville has two men left american city about the same number A person permon can wonder wander through owl tincup mound city and aultmon for days nt at it a time without seeing a face Neva davillo had the first masonic lodge charter in colorado and the third in kansas territory which then embraced this state the lodge still exists and men travel by burro in anto automobiles to or afoot long distances to attend regular meetings gunnison lson colo on the western slope started no as a mining town it ima has I come the center of a rich ranch and llo live stock region ouray the most famous gold camp in the san juan district in southwestern colorado la Is still existent but only as u h country town tom walsh discovered the camp bird mine outside ouray and sold it to british interests for millions of dollars |