Chloride's General Store is the sum total of the 'retail district.'
We visited Chloride the same day
we did Oatman. Yet another boom and bust mining town, Chloride's name is
derived from silver chloride, a white-ish translucent crystal also known as chlorargyrite. Silver mining was
primary but gold, lead, zinc and turquoise were also pursued. In the late
1800s, there were about 75 mines in operation and the population was around
5000; in 2010 the population was 271.
One of the alleged attractions in Chloride is 'lawn art.'
Lawn art, my ass! Bunch of rusted out junk they were too lazy to take to the dump.
This wall was as good as it got.
Murals above and below were painted by Roy Purcell in 1966. They're located in a valley a mile out of town on the worst road ever. I was unable to determine what Roy was smoking at the time, but it was obviously some darn good stuff.
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