[tijlover]

Just in the nick of time! According to the papers, we lost 70,000 people in Las Vegas this year, 100,000 over the last two years.

[happyhunting]

We did Calico ghost town on Halloween weekend, it's between Barstow and Baker, about 10 minutes before you hit Barstow........great fun, and took us about 2 and a half hours to get there.

[MomMom]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Just in the nick of time! According to the papers, we lost 70,000 people in Las Vegas this year, 100,000 over the last two years.

Yes, but our population has grown so much during the boom and the vast majority stayed, not even the 100,000 leaving made a difference, instead, we gained a seat and some clout in the house!

Read on...

But record unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies threatened those projections, and the state's population dropped in 2008. Nevada lost 100,000 people in two years, according to state estimates.
In the end, the state gained 1 million extra people in the past decade, enough to secure greater representation in Washington

"As a small state, we need to fight to ensure Nevada receives its fair share of resources to create jobs, improve its struggling education system and keep families in their homes."


More than 70 percent of the growth is expected to come from Democratic-leaning Clark County, cementing Las Vegas' place at the forefront of Nevada politics.


http://www.rgj.com/article/20101221/NEWS/101221009

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by happyhunting

We did Calico ghost town on Halloween weekend, it's between Barstow and Baker, about 10 minutes before you hit Barstow........great fun, and took us about 2 and a half hours to get there.

Calico is not a real ghost town. It was built thataway.

Best and easiest is Rhyolite, then you can do Death Valley the same day. Just before you get into Beatty, the gateway to beautiful downtown Rhyolite, keep an eye out for ruins of old mining towns on the right of the highway. Watch for wild burros on or near the highway too. In Beatty, the Exchange Club is no longer a bar/restaurant. There's some other business in it now. But it is a very old building, and during the days of nuke testing at the Site, they always evacuated the Exchange Club in case the artificial earthquakes brought it down. All the drunks would gather across the street and make bets on whether it would finally come tumbling down.

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Just in the nick of time! According to the papers, we lost 70,000 people in Las Vegas this year, 100,000 over the last two years.

That was just to clean out the riffraff......The CARPETBAGGERS so to speak.

[dynimagelv]

Buzzard......Calico IS a manufactured Ghost so to speak....it was the site of an old minning town and old man Knott [of berry farm fame] bought another town [I want to think it was China mission where the Little Church of the West was Stolen from] and moved all the buildings to the Calico site and made it into a SB county Park....of course he did have to put the building skins over new building frames to make it safe. [Calico is what I referred to as Chloride in an earlier post cause my brain is addled.]

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

[Calico is what I referred to as Chloride in an earlier post cause my brain is addled.]

Was that Chloride...on the way down to Laughlin? We had gotten off the beaten path on the way down there once...and saw many houses/buildings/equipment that would suggest some ancient mining operation at one time.

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

Was that Chloride...on the way down to Laughlin? We had gotten off the beaten path on the way down there once...and saw many houses/buildings/equipment that would suggest some ancient mining operation at one time.

Chloride is about 30 miles north of Kingman on the east side of the hiway up against the mountains. There are several mining operations in the Cerbats.

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

Chloride is about 30 miles north of Kingman on the east side of the hiway up against the mountains. There are several mining operations in the Cerbats.

Ah...thanks. Yes, we turned left (East) off the highway on the way down from Vegas. Took some good pics of some of the buildings and equipment. One thing, for sure...those houses were well-ventilated!

[dynimagelv]

if you went direct to Laughlin and not across the dam, that would have been Nelson.