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Beatty, Nevada
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Established on the banks of the Amargosa River in 1905 following the Bullfrog Hills Gold Rush, by Ernest Montgomery, who also founded the (ghost) town of Ballarat and owned mines in the rising town of Rhyolite, Beatty was named after local rancher Montillus Beatty. Serving as the main transit hub of the Bullfrog Mining District, Beatty became the terminus of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (LV&T) in 1906 and the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BG) and the Tonopah and Tidewater (T&T) in 1907, and the center of town was the Montgomery Hotel. Ernest Montgomery later sold the hotel to industrialist Charles Schwab, who sold it to a Dr. William Phillips, who quickly became the town’s most eager promoter, dreaming of grandiose projects and claiming to make Beatty the "Chicago of the West". After a year of briskly selling lots, he skipped town.
By 1909, the population around Beatty (including the Bullfrog Mining District) was near 10000. But just as suddenly as the rush went started, ended. By 1912 the strike was over and the population crashed, and by the 1920s, the population was a bit more than 100. It slowly grew since then, helped by construction at Scotty’s Castle and the rising tourist trade to Death Valley, which became a National Monument in 1933. The population has stabilized at around 1000, excepting a brief surge when a new mine opened in 1988 when the population doubled, only to crash down again when the mine closed ten years later. Still, the town does a brisk trade as the "Gateway to Death Valley" and is the lone survivor of the Bullfrog Mining District, surrounded by the ruins of Gold Center, Bullfrog, Amargosa, Bonanza, and the most famous of them all, Rhyolite.
Beatty, Nevada
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