Ghosts in here?

Quartzville, Colorado

  There were five silver mines and one gold mine and over 2000 people in Quartzville at one time,
not much is left, that cabin and some mine ruins are it.  The ore is gone, and the people and their hopes moved on too.

Saint Elmo, Colorado

  In it's prime St. Elmo was thriving, there was a telegraph office, 5 hotels, a lot of saloons, some dance halls, a newspaper and a school among other things, and lots of people.  There were a lot of mines in the area some of them valuable.  The Mary Murphy Mine contained over sixty million dollars worth of ore.  But, the town didn't last for long after the mines were "played out", the ore was gone and the people moved on too.  The buildings remain and are kept in "sustained abandonment" by either the State or National Park Services.  This would include some of the other towns too.

Surveyors, Abourville, Colorado, marking "claims". Early 1820's

Arbourville, Colorado.  One of the remaining buildings.

  Arbourville had mines, but it may have been better known as the only town with a brothel in the Monarch District.  The "Parlor House"  was the main attraction in Arbourville.  There were mines here as well.  Those surveyors in the photo picked out the best prospective properties for the men who paid them - kind of like Congress today, money rules unfortunately.