Rhyolite Ghost Town - Comparing Then and Now - I Found the Mines!
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- Опубліковано 13 лис 2020
- Comparing the present day Rhyolite, Nevada ghost town with photos from the early 1900's.
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We hear your heartbeat again in this one! Thanx for sharing! Very cool.
Really enjoyed the video, nothing like inspecting old ghost towns. The pictures of the town really gave a better perspective of how big the town was, and how it looked in the day. Thanks a bunch, see you next time.
Mobile Instinct , boy I envy you being able to go around our great country and checking things out like you do !
One of the reasons that I drove a tractor trailer over the road was for a similar reason of being able to check our wonderful country out !! Except when I started we didn’t have cell phones or even a pager, for myself just taking out the passenger seat and putting in a small frig was a thrill and having a good cb radio was also a thrill, being from the northeast and seeing other areas of this country was really something especially how desolate parts of the west where !!
Amazing. Thanks for that tour it brought back some memories. I was there a few times decades ago exploring.
Some of those mine openings didn't have metal grilled gates. As the saying goes stay out and stay alive. I talked to an old timer when I was visiting rhyolite who told me he saw many structures still standing back in the late 1960's & 70's. Some of the buildings are now in arrested decay as nature takes it course of slowly erasing it's existance.
ghost drumming.
In the mid 1950s my grandmother and I visited Rhyolite. That small glass bottle house hse you showed was there and lived in by an old prospector and his wife. They showed us around town and explained the history. They said they had lived in Rhyolite for years and seldom had visitors so were happy to see us. Fun memory.
Amazing story! That's so cool that you were able to experience that little piece of history
Shawna, that old couple told us that THEY had built their glass house themselves. As I recall it was larger than the one shown. They also had a couple of small skinny friendly dogs. Too bad we didn't take photos but the only cama my grandmother had was a bulky box Browny. Also, taking photos of everything just wasn't a way of life as it is today. Even at age 80+ my memories of that day are picture perfect and I recall clearly how graciously we were treated by those two old ragged people and how proud they were of the little house they had built and the life they had cobbled together.
@@daltongregory6805 That's such a lovely story! Thank you for sharing!
What a great story ! There is alot to see out in the desert, alot of lost history. Thank you for sharing your memories...♡
Thank you-
It's crazy to think that this area was someone's hometown. Someone shopped here, ate here, slept here, and worked here.
The Rhyolite Herald newspaper on December 15th 1905 reported that John Sullivan and James C. Clayton fought to the death in the Monaco saloon, during which eight shots were fired at almost point blank range. One man died instantly from his injuries, the other only managed to survive another half hour.
Good job looking that up
i agree that was great to read the news article someone added on the find a grave site
I often Google names I see in videos like this, and I was shocked to actually find that article when I searched! I wish I knew where the Monaco saloon was located though haha. Amazing historical find.
I particularly enjoy your comparisons of the Now and Then
I agree!
I strongly agree.
Me too
The first time I visited Rhyolite was in February 1965. At that time the railroad station was open to visitors, and, as I remember, was a museum. I remember some of the ruins were more intact then, than they are today. Time takes its toll - even on us - I was only 30 then, and don't think I'd even be up to the trip today.
This was me as a young man I loved the old history and what it must have been like in the day. Very proud of you young man keep it alive for your future
First, thanks for going above and beyond. 2nd Always carry a go bag with extra light, power bar , water, 1st aid. An emergency beacon to turn on in emergencies would be nice, too. As for the mine weaving around... they followed the veins of ore.
This is a very cool video, and I'm trying to work out if it's a mine in some form of sandstone. If so, any geological movement that broke the rock apart and allowed mineral veins to form would lead to quite a chaotic vein pattern as sandstones don't tend to be very well bedded, unlike limestones. Here in Derbyshire UK these weaving, unpredictable ore bodies were called 'scrins', as opposed to rakes, which could be miles long, thin and tall; flats, which followed the bedding planes and were wide but very low; and pipes, which usually followed natural cavities in the rock.
Great stuff man- if ever out near Boston I can get you into a 1929 abandoned/fancy movie theater that has never been featured on YT
Is it in Worcester?
I'm from NH... LMK I wanna tag along
It’s cute you think it hasn’t been featured here already.
never heard of it and im 20 mins from boston
Heck...if you're in East TN...check out the old fabric plants of Bemberg and what is left of NARC.
My wife & I were there on a motorcycle trip in 1994. Looks like a lot more fences now. Don’t remember any fences except around the depot. When we were there , there was a lot of German tourist. All of them were fascinated by our Harley. It was quit a trip from Virginia to California and back. Wish we could do it again!
So wild to think about the people that lived back then and what their lives were like. Many had short lives because of the times. All that remains are their graves and sadly the ones that are buried out there with no markers that will never be known. Makes you think about a lot of things.
They didn't have internet, of course they ran out of things to do and died of boredom
A thought: imagine what it took to transport large panes of glass over those rugged roads?
He said there was 3 different railroads going in and out of this town. Expensive glass windows would have come in on the railroad. I live in a large Victorian house And it still has it's original stain glass windows. They came in on a train. From if I'm remembering right Louisville KY. They were expensive when they were bought and ordered. They're worth a fortune now.
They should have pictures of them transporting window glass, marble, all the fancy teak and imported timber, all pre carved. And all the statues !
@@beverlybarnes3122 omg I so love stained glass I wish I could afford to make some it's so beautiful I live in a small town in Oklahoma just me and my father and he is 82 now so I know I'll never be able to afford a piece but oh I can look at it all day I just love it
@@Bella1neverknows670 All you need is solder, a soldering iron, glass and stain or colored glass.
Its not too expensive to do as a hobby.
@@OneBlueFroggy Grab a time machine and a Kodak.
Anyone else click back between before/after about 20-50 times before proceeding? :)
Great stuff!!
@ Kelvyquayo / YES * Thank You.
Same here 😂
I do it way to many times!😆🙄🤷♀️
I lived in Montana in the late fifty's and early sixty's I was very young. my dad used to take us to ghost towns all the time. Some were like people just got up and left town. There would still be poker cards and chips left on a table. Pretty cool to a little kid who wanted to be a cowboy.
I subscribe to several explorers & this was the first video of yours I’ve watched. How anyone could give a thumbs down is beyond me. Absolutely awesome job! You’re so thorough, give the history, & before photos. I’m also thankful for your maturity. No “f”this & “f”!that & not overly dramatic. Looking forward to watching more! 👍👏👏
Features of the mine: the areas that had short wooden posts in the vertical shafts are known as Stopes. They look like that as the miners were following the veins of ore up and down, hence the strange angles. The highest horizontal tunnels are called hauling adits, where the miners would cart ore out of the mine and down the sides of the hill by varying means. And lastly just like the Stopes, most of these adits also twisted and turned following the ore veins until they reach the end of it. Fun extra fact; the mine tunnels sides are known as walls, but the end of the tunnel is known as the face, the roof is known as the back, that floor is the belly, and the entrance is the 'portal'. Hope this was helpful mining knowledge. Great videos mate.
There's simply something interesting about old cemeteries. The one in my hometown is still full of tombs from the 1800's, the most famous one of all is one dedicated to a butler where the grave basically reads "You where not only a butler but a friend, a confidant and in my times of great need and despair a father to me."
One would think that out of Respect for all who were barried out there,some one would have had ensured the state preserve and maintain the history of the cemetery with a lot more respect and care, instead of letting history rott away as if " it served it's purpose when it was a benifit during the mining days, but once that was gone, no one cared to preserve such old history or respect those who sacrificed so much for that town now barried long gone and lost like dust in the wind.asges to ashes and dust to dust....RIP pioneers of this ghost town.
My mother's cousin (once removed?) lived in the depot. Her story, as I recall it: Cousin Freddy (must have been Frederica) came out from Georgia to take possession of inheritance from her brother, Norman. This was mid-40s. Norman had left her the town of Rhyolite. Norman had operated it as a casino. Patton and his officers frequented it for R&R when doing their tank training in the Imperial Valley. Cousin Freddy did not approve of that sort of activity, so she shut down the casino and started the museum. My family visited her a couple of times in '60s or late '50s. The wider family did not mention Norman, he was the black sheep. He had left Georgia when a young man or teen, after his Baptist preacher dad caught him playing popular music on his violin, and promptly thrashed it on the fireplace andirons and burned it.
I think you have got one of the best channels on youtube. Love your story telling and video.
I loved the old depot, train car & cemetery. You take me to the most interesting places! Thanks!
I agree 👍
The landscape reminds me of the movie, "The Hills Have Eyes."
The now and then pictures are great, fantastic research you’ve done on this, with information available. Great video and interesting to watch.
Look forward to seeing more like this.
50 Saloons? I'm there
I'll buy you a drink 😉.
They mined gold and silver. Tons of silver mines in Nevada, hence why we are called the Silver State :)
You a local? I've grown up around these old mine towns and even got into the mining industry myself.
@@ovaca16 Yea, I'm in Vegas. I went up to Rhyolite with my cousin about 20 years ago when he last came to visit. I mentioned the bottle house and he was intrigued.
They probably mined perlite too, just a guess
@@ovaca16 Only vacation I kinda ever went on I went to Virginia City that's awesome place ever body there was very friendly very smalle but they did a lot of mining there have a train ride you could go on down into the tunnels this was back in 2001 they have a really old bar is all original the wood is amazing beautiful have a few little machines you can gamble is there quarter machines it may sound weird but there was some really cool tombstones at the little Cemetery there
Actually, the Silver State refers to the silver sheen of the sagebrush around Carson City. Although, the Nevada Tourism Board rather promote the mining angle.
About those barred windows, Chris: it just occurred to me that in and area where they mined gold and silver, each mine might have a solidly built structure, or a "strong room," with steel doors and bars on the windows to protect their precious metals. BTW, that train car is an AT&SF (Atchison Topeka & Sante Fe) side-door caboose, a very popular "Old-time" car in model railroading, back in the '50s thru '90s. I like the Before and After shots, and of course, I enjoy exploration videos. Stay safe, everyone.
"About those barred windows..."...at 4:43, you can see one of the barred windows is BENT! Like the Hulk pulling the bars apart...curious...The only way I can think of to do that would be with a jack, a really small jack; but, then you gotta wonder, "why?"...hehehe
@@StoneShards I noticed that too, and wondered, "WTF?" I wonder if Rholite had a newspaper (most Western towns, large or small, had one), does a local historical society have them on file? If it was a jail, did somebody (some _thing?)_ break out a prisoner---or if it was a mine's "strong room," did some goodies "disappear" from it? (Maybe there was a guy with a very large pal---or very large "pet!"---who got him out or a helped him "borrow" some precious metals from the mine owners?) Makes me smile to think about it. Stay safe.
Your enthusiasm, research and respect really made this enjoyable. Thanks.
About 6:00 minutes: You'll find mines locked up like that all over the U.S. West. Too many amateur explorers, mostly teenagers, were getting killed or injured while exploring them. Millions were spent searching for these and finding the best way to bar entry. There was a rash of these deaths/entrapments in the 1990s. That was the impetus for the project to close as many as they could find.
that was great... the old roads are usually the old railroad grades... they took up and reused track as fast as they laid it down in the first place
Hey Chris, your channels are two of my favorite channels that I follow. You really do have the best videos man. Back stories are just as interesting as the places you choose to explore. ✌
Watching you go so far into those mines with flimsy wood chocks supporting the ceiling made my stomach tighten. I love watching your exploring but stay outta those holes in the earth - stay safe.
Be careful to never enter old mines I was out hiking with friends we found a mine and decided to go in the shaft split about 100 feet in I went ahead to the right about another 150 ft in the floor collapsed under me I only fell about 15 feet my friends came to find me and had to gets tree branch to help get me out.
I also love seeing before/after photos from history! I also really love how much you research places you visit to know what each building is/was and its history. Love your videos!
I been in that first mine, it wasn’t blocked off when I was there. We walked real far back but turned around before it branched off. Very cool.
I hope they refurbish that old train station and maybe turn it into a museum for the area.
Went there a few years ago and camped just off where the old railroad tracks were. It was maybe 2 miles away from the station. Interesting place to walk around.
Here in san diego calif. I enjoy going up to a small town in the mountains and we always go to the cemetery, only locals can be buried there. Its still cared for and there are headstones for the 1800's as well. I met an old woman preserving an old bench and she showed me her husband's grave and her non - occupied grave along side his. Now every time I go up there, I look to see if she had passed, luckily as of last month, she's still hanging tough. Her son has identified lotsa graves lost throughout time, and made small metal plaques for them. Maybe I should post a video sometime, hahaha.
Yes, make a video.
Is it in Julian?
@@barksjohnson1513 you got it. Hahaha
Sounds very interesting. Please do if yo can.
That would be awesome please do it!
I was there about 25 years ago with my Dad, still looks the same, pretty cool 😎
Cool video and good job. Though I live on the East Coast, I have been a ghost town junkie since age 12 and have been to Rhyolite many times starting in 1989. At that time there were no fences but someone was living in the train depot and made it very clear to keep out. I have also been collecting Rhyolite memorabilia and artifacts and have quite a few. The Cook Building was the home of the First National Bank of Rhyolite, which was on the main floor. The "basement" housed the Rhyolite Post Office and there were offices on the second floor. Just across the street was the Southern Hotel, all wood, but the nicest in town. You are correct the building with the steel doors was the two-cell Rhyolite jail, and the open area in front was the sheriff's office. There was only one jail. The high school was the last major structure built in Rhyolite. On Ladd Mountain, where you were hiking, was the Bullfrog National Bank mine, parts of which you explored. The Overbury Building, across from the Porter Bros Store, was the home of the Bullfrog Bank and Trust Co..
Great info Sir. Thank you
I love how respectful you are of the area you are exploring and the research you do. Thank you!
Awesome! I was just there in Rhyolite last week! Vlog will be up soon. Great adventure!
I actually live in an old coal mining town in Oklahoma. My granny's told me different stories about it, and how the little place I call home used be busy all the time. It's a really cool thing about our history and what gave us our school mascot.
The former railroad depot was still a bar and museum in the 1970's.
I went there in 1990. Still looks the same. It may have fallen apart a little, but not much.
Hi, I was there in 1992, the rail road building was occupied then...wow...thx.
Amazing that time and nature can almost erase a town. ( earned a wow with this one ;-)
The yellow rose on the grave looks fairly new
I appreciate you taking the time to do these videos. I really enjoy them!
That was really cool. So much to look at. When you said you can see for miles, I thought of The Who, lol. Well done on the picture comparisons. That's not easy to do sometimes. Thanks for the adventure 😄
As my dad working in the military, I got to travel, A LOT. Many of the old sites I git to see dated back to B.C. Crazy! I got to see Pompeii! Which was so fun. :)
Thank you I've been to Riolite but didn't get to see all that ,very interesting great job 😘
Great video. It’s refreshing that you find even the smallest details fascinating. In love in the UK but I’d love to one day get to see some of these old, forgotten treasures.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. One of your best! Like you, I like to view photos from before and now. I like overlays, too. Thanks for doing this. I feel like I was there with you.
LOVE THE COMPARISON PICTURES! So cool!!!
Thanks for taking the time to research and provide photos of back then. Amazing story .
Really cool tour my friend, thank you for taking us along
Nice to see your in my area, and doing a great job showing it. Thank you
I'm subscribed to probably 100 or so channels, this channel is by far the best!! I travel all over the U.S. and I'm jealous because I'm in a big truck and can't stop.
Interesting!!! I like how you have the old photos to match up with what is left! Very cool!!! I love stuff like this! Just discovered your channel the other day and am really enjoying it!!!! Pat
The dedication you put into your channel is INCREDIBLE!!!! I live in Nevada and it’s HOT and DRY with nothing to see but your destination. Thank you for all your HARD WORK. Your the BEST!!!!
I was in Rhyolite in March 2021. Really like the old pictures you included for comparison. Many of the mine sites I have visited had been closed by the state of Nevada. Too many people going into mines were not coming out. Great Video!
Amazing. Thank you for taking us on this tour. Incredible
I used to live in Tonopah and I visited some of the places you film. Keep it up, I like to look back when I was a kid. Belmont and have family and friends in Round Mountain, Nevada.
The flies bugging you....You're the most interesting thing around in ages...love seeing then and now pictures; makes history come alive.
Yours is the best and most extensive video I have ever seen about Rhyolite. Well Done
Chris, you are certainly a great commentator to watch. Your material is particularly rare footage and sites. Keep up the good work.
That was truly awesome. Thx for taking us along.
We were there a few months ago. It’s a trip to see you filming all the places we were just at. We went again at night and took some great pictures, but caught no ghosts. Love you’re vid. Great Job.
I'm new to your channel, and this one is one of my favorites so far...Thank you for the awesome videos...
I found your channel and Ive been watching for the past 3 days - I love the murder videos the best. These are awesome to watch too - especially with all the old photos you add, fantastic!!! Thank you!!
Matching it up with the old pictures is so amazing!
Always enjoy your videos! Thank you for your time and documentation of our past!
It's such a big place and that walk up that Mountain is why we enjoy your channel. It shows your dedication. BTW great place for a drone.
I spent the night photographing the stars there a couple years ago. Its pretty creepy out there by yourself.
You sir have earned a new subscriber. I love stuff like this, it's neat seeing old places like this and this video is an excellent look at an old ghost town.
Thanks!
since you're in the area head north into CA and OR. Some neat things to explore and BEAUTIFUL scenery!
Considering the dry environment and that most of the structures would have had roofs, I'm surprised how little is left standing.
Wood was very valuable and was scavenged.
I had the same question: why was it all in such an advanced state of decay? And wondered whether the authorities had pulled it all down to minimise the risk of injury to curious sightseers. Or whether (as archstanton live indicates) it had just been picked over and the material recycled for other structures elsewhere. But it's odd how certain walls or door frames still remain while adjacent portions have been ripped to pieces.
@@AMarchant My hypothesis is that in the case of the prominent bank, the front wall was blown out with dynamite to harvest the highly desirable joists from the second floor and trusses from the roof. I have no evidence for this other than the debris does not look like a product of mere erosion.
@@AMarchant Oops, after review, likely the second and third floor, and the roof had desirable joists (no trusses).
@@AMarchant Quite likely these were used as shoring timbers in some subsequent small scale mine in the region.
The flies, I'll bet! You're carrying on your skin a precious commodity, moisture! I have enjoyed this. Thank you.
12:35 someone in the 1960s engraved the date on the wall.
Looking in books couldn't do what a video can do better..LOVE IT!!
Awesome video and thanks for posting :>) I drove out there back in the late 80's while stationed at Nellis AFB so this video brings back some memories. I have a book of Nevada Ghost Towns which shows a picture of the Barnum and Bailey Circus parading down the main-street of Rhyolite back around 1906...give or take a few years.
dig your videos dude thanks for bringing us along to all these cool places!
The main shaft going into the mines is called the haulage addit. Those cleared areas with the timbers going up are called stopes. The tunnels going off the haulage addit are drifts. What the miners did was follow the ore veins. They use gravity to push the ore down to the lower levels via ore shoots and to be hauled out the main haulage addit. That big hole with the grate across it might have been one of the incline shafts. It probably had a big winch on the top, probably where that wooden beam came from. There where probably wooden tracks used to winch up ore bins, lower the bins and also bring tools and equipment in and out of the shafts to the miners in the stopes. That first haulage addit you came to with the fence in front of it was probably the main haulage addit. It probably had metal tracks in it where they would run the ore cars in and out.
Thanks so much for that info.
"I always end up climbing up steep hills"....LOL. I knew you would hike up to at least that first mine and take a peek inside but then you found the Mother load! I'm glad you didn't come across a big rattle snake or have a rock fall on your head. You have an incredible curiosity and sense of adventure that is addicting! Love you and your videos.
This video rocked and was well researched and presented! The historical Photos really added a lot. I made a Quick trip out there today but still felt like I got a ton out of your video watching it after the trip
i really enjoy your videos. your narration and video footage is great . very informative and i really like the now and then photos. thank you.
Love the now and then photos. Keep them coming.
Awesome video. Another place I might put on my bucket list 😉.
I was thinking to myself when you were searching for the cemetery "Lamont at Large could find it for you" lol.
Be safe my friend 🤠 💕
Been there a dozen times. Very cool place. Thank you for showing this because I live near Chicago now. Nothing like that here. 😥😭
It’s so crazy to think that in just a few decades these buildings have gone to ruin. People that are still alive today probably lived in this town. Every town I’ve lived in is still there and flourishing. I couldn’t imagine to have my childhood town look like this. I love learning about history like this. Thanks for exploring and sharing it with us.
Great video work. enjoyed the commentary and the background information. first time viewer and subbed. thank you in advance
Very nice Clip again ! 👍Thnx for Sharing and Greets from GERMANY !👋😎 🇩🇪
Thank you for sharing. A fascinating and brilliant piece of history. The then and now comparisons bring it all to life. Sad to see a vibrant town disappear but it's understandable.
Best wishes,
Paul in Lower Boddington UK
Another gem of a video mate. Thank you for sharing 👍
When you went back in that mine ,I was thinking RATTLESNAKE DEN. What would you do if you were bitten out in the middle on nowhere all by yourself? Do you a emergency medical kit? Just something to think about. Love your videos! Take care
in the mine:
that was a pay layer, with pilars of ore left behind for support. the stope was empty space where they extracted the richest ore. the vertical shafts were for haulage from the look of things. and the eld was the face of the mine where the mineralization ran dry, too dry to keep mining.
funny thing about rhyolite though, there is still gold there. not in any amount to make worthy of opening a big mine, but a smart person with a small outfit could high grade ore off the floor of the mine and have a really neat historic feeling day in their pan after a cleanup.
Excellent video. You did a great job on this with a lot of information too.
Another really interesting video. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Excellent content. You are a total pleasure to watch. Thank you.
So pleased that you show the before pictures. Wish more people would do this..
It's really cool to see what's left. That steel door looked like it could last another 100 yrs
Thanks Chris!!!, Excellent videos, Keep them coming!!!!😉😉