Rhyolite once had a population of over 10,000. A prospector by the name of Shorty Harris found a gold filled quartz vein in 1904 and, as is typical, a rush began. The town immediately boomed with buildings springing up everywhere. One building was three stories tall. A stock exchange was formed. There was the usual red light district, hotels, stores, a school for 250 children, an ice plant, two electric plants, foundries, machine shops, and a hospital. The financial panic of 1907 began the end of the small city, and by 1910 production at the mill slowed. In 1916 the power was turned off in the town.
See also Bullfrog, Nevada. |
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