Ruth (Nevada)

Ruth (Nevada ) is a mining town, founded in 1903, which is about 8 kilometers northwest of the city of Ely in White Pine County, Nevada, is located. The site is classified as a town (city) and in 2005 had about 400 inhabitants. It lies on the U.S. 50th

1903 were opened up in White Pine County at Ely large copper deposits. At the edge of the first major copper mine was initially built of tents and wooden huts, a settlement for the miners, who called the owner of the mine after his only daughter Ruth. With the opening of the Nevada Northern Railway in 1906, copper production began to boom.

1910, the city was rebuilt already at a short distance for the first time. Ruth was a company town: the houses belonged to the mine and the town was administered by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company mining company. Game parlors and brothels were, unlike in other mining settlements prohibited. In the neighboring settlement Riepe Town, whose remains were leveled in 1995, there were 16 saloons, stabbings, robberies and beatings were commonplace. Also, labor disputes were often fought bloody: In October 1912 three striking workers were killed in gunfights with scabs. Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie called on Ruth martial law to end the strike.

1919 came again to a longer, this time peaceful industrial action led by the Western Federation of Miners and the devices communist-oriented trade union IWW. At the beginning of the Great Depression, Ruth had 2,300 inhabitants.

The copper mines at Ruth changed in 1956 the owner. The old town of Ruth was again demolished due to expansion of the mine. The new owner, Kennecott Corporation, offered the inhabitants on the construction of a new town with houses at low prices. The new settlement was under the administration of the County. Due to the frequent moves Ruth was nicknamed " city travelers " ( traveling town). Under various owners has been reduced to 1999 copper open pit, the pits were managed last 3.2 km long, 1.6 km wide and about 306 meters deep.

The mining of copper and the railway, however, were discontinued in 1999. Only the railway continues to operate as a museum railway of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum between Ruth and neighboring Ely.

Ruth served as the inspiration for Stephen King's Desperation.