ACROSS SARCOBATUS FLAT INTO BONNIE CLARE | LAS VEGAS AND TONOPAH RAILROAD - DEATH Q

DEATH Q ACROSS SARCOBATUS FLAT INTO BONNIE CLARE LAS VEGAS AND TONOPAH RAILROAD Copied from cali49.com website: "Mining activity has been going on in this area since the 1880s. A small camp known as Thorp's Wells came into being around a stamp mill built at the site. It handled ore from the major mines located near Gold Mountain, some six miles to the northwest. The mill operated into the early 1900s, at which time it was purchased by the Bonnie Clare Bullfrog Mining Company. They built a new mill in 1904, which was christened the Bonnie Claire. It milled ore brought in from all over the mining district, but business in camp didn't really boom until 1906, when the Bullfrog-Goldfield Railroad reached Thorp's Wells, aka, Thorp, Montana Station and possibly Summerville. The railroad brought a small prosperity to the settlement and a new townsite was platted in October of 1906, at which time the residents chose the name Bonnie Claire for their new town. Another railroad, the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad arrived soon after and built a depot in town in 1907. Business boomed. But boomtowns almost always turn into busttowns, and Bonnie Claire began to decline as soon as 1909. It enjoyed a brief resurgence when Death Valley Scotty was building his "castle," as he had most of the building materials shipped through Bonnie Claire via the Tonapah and Tidewater Railroad. But when the railroads folded in the late 1920s, the town began a quick fade to black." Bonnie Clare, NV Death Valley @self.supported #thruhike #selfsupported #DeathQ