That prosperity ended in 1960, when the railroad closed the remaining portion of its line between Laws and Keeler. The post office closed its doors in 1963, and Laws was destined to be a true ghost town. Instead; however, the City of Bishop and Inyo County established a railroad museum at the site and later moved various buildings to Laws. It now serves as a museum that typifies a typical turn of the century town. See full article HERE.

Leadfield - Copper and lead claims had been filed in the Leadfield area as early as 1905 but it wasn’t until 1926 that the area was heavily mined. In February of that year, Charles C. Julian, a flamboyant California promoter, became president of the town’s leading mining company, the Western Lead Mines. Julian’s promotions were responsible for bringing great numbers of people into the area and in April, 1926 the town was laid out with 1749 lots. The financial downfall of Charles Julian and the playing out of lead in one of the main mines, led to the end of the town. Today, the area is scattered with mines, dumps, tunnels and prospect holes. There are remains of wood and tin buildings, a dugout and cement foundations of the mill. It is located on the Titus Canyon Road. This is a one way high clearance unpaved road that sometimes requires 4-wheel drive.

Lee, California/Nevada -  Also called Lee's Camp, this place got its start after the wild Bullfrog rush in 1904 causing prospectors to flock over the region. Two of these prospectors were ranch brothers named Richard and Gus Lee, who decided to leave their ranch at Resting Spring, California and give prospecting a try. With the help of a man named Henry F. Finney, they soon found two gold ledges in November, 1904, which they named the State Line and Hayseed Mines, just inside California. As word got out, hundreds more flocked to the area in search of their fortunes and the Lee Mining District was formed in March, 1905. A few months later, in October, a similar condition existed on the west side of the Funeral Range, and the Echo Mining District was organized. The two districts, were then merged and became known as the Echo-Lee Mining District. Another man by the name of David M. Poste had found gold in the low hills east of the original Lee Camp in Nevada, and the Poste Mining District was formed on that side of the state line. Before long, two townsites were created to cash in on the boom, one in California and the other in Nevada. Both were called Lee, after the Lee brothers who had started the rush

Within sight of each other straddling the state line, another addition grew up between the two called Lee Annex. As the two townsites were developed in January, 1907, the Bullfrog Miner observed, "it is claimed that a camp is never fairly certain of a good future until it has a townsite fight," and such a fight was now on. The Nevada company promised to soon have a telephone connection, a corral, feed yard, a restaurant, rooming house, and, of course, a saloon. In California, the Lee townsite boasted a restaurant, a rooming house, saloon, and a general store by February. In the end, Lee, California would win out when the principal owner of the Hidden Treasure Mining Company and Lee, California promoter, struck pure water about three miles east of Lee an immediately announced plans to lay a pipe line and build a pumping station to bring the water into Lee, California. The district reached its peak the same year with about 600 residents and gained a post office.

However, by late in the year, the effects of the Panic of 1907 began to be felt in Lee and the decline began. Storekeepers and other merchants, who depended upon a stead flow of cash to stay solvent, bgan to leave in the first half of 1908, although there were still eleven mining companies active in the Echo-Lee District. By June, Lee had dwindled to only three stores, a saloon and a restaurant. Still, the town and the mines continued. But, not for long. The post office closed in 1912. Today, there is little left but empty mine shafts and tunnel, a few stone foundations, an old stone bridge, dugouts, a set stone walls, and much debris. It is located near the Nevada state line, at the eastern foot of the Funeral Range, 30 miles south of Rhyolite.