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Unfortunately, prosperity was short-lived and the Jennie experienced legal and financial difficulties. Gold Springs emptied, and save for a small revival in the 1930s, only intermittent work has been done since. 🧵 3/3

In 1906, the Gold Springs townsite was laid out near the Jennie Mine, which soon had a 30-ton Nissen stamp mill. Within a few years, Gold Spring's population skyrocketed to 250 and the Jennie Mill was enlarged to 100-tons and gained a cyanide plant. 🧵 2/3

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Peaking at around 150 people with numerous businesses and services, Fay was a producer until the early 1910s before it finally became a ghost. More recent mining has occurred, but Fay never revived and most of its remains were destroyed by the 2014 Cottonwood Fire. 🧵 2/2

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After Deerlodge's life as a mining camp, the Hackett family stayed and shifted the focus to ranching. There the family remained until 1959, when the ranch was sold and subsequently abandoned. 🧵 3/3

In 1900, however, the new camp of Fay a few miles away proved to be more productive and most of Deerlodge's population - and buildings - soon moved there. 🧵 2/3

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Unfortunately, Lima's mines had a flooding problem and the town withered in 1867. Some of the most peculiarly shaped ruins I've ever seen can be found at the site. 🧵 2/2

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I just got my hands on a copy of Lawrence E. Meeker's new guidebook on the Carson & Colorado Railroad (predecessor of the N&C) between Hawthorne & Benton and learned that the original name for Borus was actually Seco! I also found several cool new-to-me nuggets to check out along the old line. 🧵 2/2

Despite appearing staged for the photo shoot in the '20s, local Paiute tradition states that the ancient imagery refers to periods of flooding and possibly stories of a great sea serpent dwelling in the nearby lake.

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For more than the last one hundred years, however, what became known as the Bull Creek Ranch has led a quiet, peaceful existence; a verdant oasis hidden in a desert ravine.

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In the 1990s, Al & Carol Drayton built a new home and reopened shop along the highway for fifteen years, but today the old place is part of the Railroad Valley Wildlife Management Area and there are no services to be found. 🧵 3/3

In 1883 they became home to Eugene Locke, who would start a family that would develop & live on the ranch for the next 80 years. During the 1920s when the Midland Trail was routed by the property, the Lockes opened a gas station & later, a cafe which operated until they sold the ranch in 1963. 🧵 2/3