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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: miraje who wrote (431477)6/12/2011 10:58:15 AM
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This is really sad. I'm quite familiar with the area. Good honest country folk, the old west..

Empire: The death of a Nevada company town

...Empire, about 100 miles northeast of Reno in the Black Rock Desert, will become an instant ghost town, its gypsum mine vacant and drywall plant shuttered for the first time since 1923.

Even its ZIP code, 89405, has been wiped from the map, a final insult to one of the last true company towns in America...

The whole article at: lvrj.com
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