Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-07
NEVADA HAVING
 HARD STRGGLE
Miner Tells How Rhyolite, Thrving Camp a Few Years Ago Is Now Deserted Vil- lage-Few Linger There


 PHOENIX, Sep. .--Georg6e F. Det l more, a miner well known through 1 out the minig sections of the entire l west, was. in Phoenix yesterday en- route from Nevada to Jerome, WhPre he will be employed by a large min ing company.
 nous and flourishing mining camps of Nevada are now really pitable,' said Mir DetmoTe in discussing his sO- iourn through that state. Flourish ing little cities of only a few years ago with many costly improvements today stand a mass of ruins. In Rhyolite, for instance, there were at least 6500 happy, prosperous, hopeful people not more than five years ago. Fine brick blocks skirted the main business streets and the twn bOasted of two good hotels and many palatial residences. The sales of the big stores ran into the four-fgure column every day and five very large gamb- ling houses were crowded both night and day There were saloons and dance halls innumerab.e, and the same toasted of a gilded palace nf sin that outshone anything in the state.
 There wasn't man who visited Rhyo!ite in those days but who pre- ,licted a wonderful future for th2 camp 1 presume more men were working for s10 a day than ac any oth- CT figure. Money was a great deal more plentiful than water, which Wus selinig at D cents pre- bucket. H | csts 8 man S14 per week for a 6XS room, and you couldn't buy anything that locked like meal for less than ] sl There were two weekly newspa- pers in the town carrying from 16 to | 2 pages4 in each issue, loaded with advertising that paid S1 per inch per | issue. The subscription price was l $10 per year. Local reporters were paid SIC per day for their work. which was of course confined mostly to writing up Of mines. Similar con ditions existed in Beatty, about four i miles distant.
 1 Today RhyOlite is practically a de- l serted village. There are hundreds ! f houses, some of them magnificent. standing idle, with smashed windows. ' bateFd down doors and scared walls. | An elegant brick bank building. equipped with costly furniture, stands in the heart of the former business section, open to the public, with big steel vault doors ajar and the floor strewn with books, checks and worSh. less stock certificates. Expensive fixtures remain in business houses and in some of the houses good look ing furniture remains which was left
 when the people found the boom had exploded.
 And ths reminds me: When struck Rhyolite the other day, I was , asked by an old miner who had not 2 forsaken the town, where I was go ! ing to sleep that night oNt having , made arrangements for the night, ht pointed out iine-appearing tTo-stO , " budding just across the street Go over there, he said, you will finC . 14 elegantly furnished sleeping rooms ? Take your choice. The people whC ? ! operated that place in the cid day
 had barely enough money to get ou
 of camp and they were forced tC
 leave their belongings. visited tht place that evening and found t exact Fly as represented. There was plent!
 of all kinds of bedding, including p!l lows, fine spreads and everything
 There were four well equipped bath
 rooms. but unfortunately, the hy
 drants refused to turn loose water.