Kelly, built a Bottle House out of 50,000 beer and liquor bottles. That same year an enterprising miner, Tom T. In 1906 Countess Morajeski opened the Alaska Glacier Ice Cream Parlor to the delight of the local citizenry. The town citizens had an active social life including baseball games, dances, basket socials, whist parties, tennis, a symphony, Sunday school picnics, basketball games, Saturday night variety shows at the opera house, and pool tournaments. There were hotels, stores, a school for 250 children, an ice plant, two electric plants, foundries and machine shops and even a miner’s union hospital. The red light district drew women from as far away as San Francisco. A stock exchange and Board of Trade were formed. One building was 3 stories tall and cost $90,000 to build. The town immediately boomed with buildings springing up everywhere. The most promising was the Montgomery Shoshone mine, which prompted everyone to move to the Rhyolite townsite. There were over 2000 claims covering everything in a 30 mile area from the Bullfrog district. A townsite was laid out nearby and given the name Rhyolite from the silica-rich volcanic rock in the area. Soon the rush was on and several camps were set up including Bullfrog, the Amargosa and a settlement between them called Jumpertown. I say so once and I’ll say it again.” At that time there was only one other person in the whole area: Old Man Beatty who lived in a ranch with his family five miles away. this banner is a crackerjack”! He declared, “The district is going to be the banner camp of Nevada. They found quartz all over a hill, and as Shorty describes it “.
Cross, who were prospecting in the area in 1904. This ghost town's origins were brought about by Shorty Harris and E.
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