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"Silver ore appears to have been first discovered near the site of Rosebud in 1906. This was followed by a senseless 'boom,' in which, as usual, folly played eagerly in to the hands of fraud. Consequently, the town, which sprang up before the existence of any considerable body off ore was assured, is now nearly deserted, and the winds whistle through the unglazed windows of its most pretentious buildings, abandoned before completion."
Frederick Leslie Ransom
USGS Bulletin 414, 1909
One of my favorite descriptions of a boom-bust mining town in the Great Basin.
Loyal
Posted : July 2, 2014 5:55 pm
