All other streets were made to be 40 feet wide. Wall Street, the main street, was purposely made 60 feet wide to allow room for the wooden sidewalks. The 120 acre townsite was withdrawn from the "public domain" by a territorial judge from Soccoro, and was surveyed into "lots, blocks, and parcels". Beginning as a tent city in 1880 when silver was found in the canyons and mountains to the west, Chloride soon grew to 3,000 souls, mostly hard working, hard drinking, hard rock miners.Ī robust boom town, Chloride had all the required establishments: nine saloons, two general merchandise stores, butcher shops, hotel, boarding houses, an assay office, black smith shop, drug store, law office, livery stable, chinese laundry, ladies millinery store, a photography studio, a candystore, and of course, a red light district, but no church.
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