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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. " .~ IE :t~ T Y is often greatly heightened by the spectacular locales of many ghost towns-Grafton. in Utah, with the 4.000-foot cliffs of Zion National Park beyond, the stirring views of the San Juan Mountains at Alta, Colorado, or the snowy peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Range looming behind Elizabethtown. New Mexico. ~-" -' Settled by Mormons in the ....- ... ' 1360s,Grafton, Utah, was plagued by the flooding Virgin River and Indian attacks. Though the Indians finally relented, the river did not, and Grafton was all but abandoned in 1907. Mount Kinesava rises beyond the town in Zion National Park. Finding a use for the useless, an artist turned an old building in Cisco, Utah, into a canvas. The town, a shipping, outfitting and supply center, lived and died by transportation. It was founded in 1887 along the tracks of a narrow-gauge rail line, then moved a couple of miles to the new wide-gauge line. In the early 19705, Interstate 70 bypassed it, and now only a few people live there. A fire destroyed Elizabethtown, New Mexico, in 1903. Coppermining gave the town its start in the mid-1860s, but the discovery of gold quickly changed its focus. After the fire, nobody rebuilt because the remaining gold cost more to mine than it was worth. 40 H I STORIC TRAVELER· NOVEMBER 1997 I' |
