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BEATTY, NEVADA
On August 9, 1904 Ed Cross and Shorty Harris discovered
rich gold ore in the Bullfrog Hills. The Busch brothers
founded the town of Rhyolite nearer to the gushing
springs of Walter Beatty. Beatty was a squawman who
had been living at the springs, overlooking the natural
gold while he searched for a cache of gold said to have
been buried by the Jayhawkers in 1849. By 1905 there
were towns in the district, Beatty, Rhyolite and Bullfrog.
A water company was formed to pipe water from
Beatty's Springs to the new town of Rhyolite. An ice
company gave luxury by selling ice at only 5ยข per pound.
With the coming of the L. V. & T. and the T. & T.
railroads Beatty proclaimed the camp "The Chicago of
the West." . . M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
B636
42488-B
O & Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California
WEST NYACK.
M. Y
1964
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