The rail line was extended and rerouted, and the region's torrid conditions also returned, with drought and dust storms ravaging the town. The copper and silver mine here closed in 1927, and by the 1930s the once-booming town was in serious decline. It was abandoned altogether by the 1980s.

Today, information plaques pepper the deserted buildings and sites, which include the old police station, a rail-station building and the cemetery.

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