The End of Nowhere!

[JackLuis]

Slump in construction industry creates a Sheetrock ghost town

The Sheetrock producing Empire, Nev., will become a ghost town June 20. The isolated company town quit mining gypsum and dry wall production this year as a result of the construction industry slump.

If you have never seen the Black Rock Desert, it is a dry playa about 70 miles long and 20-30 miles wide edged with volcanic up thrusted ridges. There are hot springs and very little water. The population other than Gerlach and Empire is less that a little, perhaps thirty miners?

Empire was the crumbling edge of civilization.