A total of $17.4 million has been allocated from last year’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Act to mitigate environmental and physical hazards and to restore vegetation at a couple dozen abandoned…
Trying to clean contamination from the miles-long wash will be a more complicated endeavor, Kim said. So he was pleased to see the BLM, which manages much of the land around Red Mountain, receive $1.5 million to start work in the area and others like it.
has newspaper accounts of raids for alcohol sales during Prohibition and arrests of “wild women” in the town known for having several brothels. But as the price of gold and other metals started to fall, local mining gradually slowed, halting entirely in the 1940s. Speculators tried to revive operations in the 1960s and again in the mid-’80s, when gold prices soared and technology for finding deposits improved. So far, nothing has stuck.
Johannesburg boasts the area’s only gas station, while Red Mountain has the Owl Cafe, which isn’t a cafe at all but a sometimes-open museum of sorts dedicated to the area’s history. And signs throughout the area can guide visitors on a driving tour of mining sites that haven’t produced much to speak of in decades.That lack of recent mining success hasn’t stopped men like Hall from making their way here to try and strike it rich.
Dewy Stephenson, 70, says a bit sheepishly that he was lured to Red Mountain by a girl. She wanted to move from Ridgecrest, a city a half-hour north where they all go to buy water and groceries and everything else they need. Stephenson — whose truck boasts a “Don’t blame me, I voted for Trump” bumper sticker — said he enjoys the quiet of the town and that people leave you alone.
Hall agreed to take a urine test several years back and said a BLM representative told him he had more arsenic in his body than they’d ever seen. Still, Hall said he feels healthy for his age and chalked up the warnings to scare tactics. He’s convinced the BLM simply wants residents to move away so they won’t have to worry anymore about liability.shows just 7% of Red Mountain residents are currently employed. Most are older, white and male.
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