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Per patron comment, this was the 200 block of West Main Street with Beatty Mountain in the background, but it is currently a vacant lot.
Caption: Remnant of other days in Beatty. Abandoned saloons. During the boom of 1906, Beatty boasted a population of 1,000. There were 26 saloons. In 1918, only 2 remained to close their doors.
Site Name: The Northern (Beatty, Nev.)

Caption: Abandoned shacks in Rhyolite, Nev. Called the Ghost City. During the Gold Rush in 1906-7, Rhyolite had a population of 5,000. It is said that people had to elbow their way through the streets. Many substantial buildings were erected, some of which still stand dismantled of everything portable. At the beginning of 1920, Rhyolite is deserted with the exception of four persons.

l-r top row Uncle Wesley Wheaton (Mrs. McGonagills brother, Willie LeRoy McGonagill, Mrs. Anna Laura (Wheaton) McGonagill, holding baby James Henry McGonagill and Mabel Thompson. In front of Mabel Minnie Belle Thompson. In front of Minnie Laura McGonagill. In front at left, Ruth, Irma and Ray McGonagill, Myrtle Ellen Thompson.

Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada)

Photograph of O. K. Reed and his son Little O. K. near his claim at Gold Reed, Tonopah (Nev.), 1920

Photograph of the Cinnabar mine at Ned's Cache Spring, Goldfield (Nev.), 1920

Photograph of Josiah Irving Crowell's mill at the Chloride Cliff Mine (Nev.), 1915