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Rhyolite
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Rhyolite downtown (#1087)

Rhyolite downtown (#1087)
Downtown Rhyolite, from the train depot….it’s amazing the structures that were built when you realize that the town only lasted a few year. Even more amazing, is the expenses that went into the structures. The tall building is the former Cook Bank Building which cost $90K to build at the time ($2.5M now). The building Italian marble stairs and imported stained-glass windows…

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 slgwv
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At least Rhyolite's collapse wasn't just due to the mines' exhaustion--the Panic of 1907 helped!
5 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
I saw that it was that panic that was a major factor. If my memory is right, the panic of '07 was largely caused by SF '06 quake.
5 years ago.

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