People rode the new railroads out of Rhyolite as fast as they could get a seat. By 1910, just 700 people remained. A decade later, the town lay all but abandoned. Most major buildings fell prey to the need for building materials in Las Vegas and Beatty. The depot and Rhyolite's famous bottle house built in 1906 of thousands of liquor bottles are the best of the intact remnants, as they were both occupied as residences for many years.
Stark ruins mark a few others.
Untold tales rest among weathered headstones and unmarked graves in Rhyolite's tiny cemetery. Margo Bartlett Pesek's Trip of the Week column appears Sundays.