Jumat, 13 Oktober 2017

Ghost Town: Silver Reef, Utah

One night in 1866, the story goes, prospector John Kemple sought shelter with a Mormon family in Leeds, southwest Utah Territory. Sitting by the evening fire, he noticed a metallic liquid dripping from a hot rock in the fireplace. Suspecting it might be silver, he tried and failed to locate the rock’s source. Prevailing wisdom …

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