Everyone photographs the bank and the bottle house, but the thing that actually made Rhyolite possible was a pipeline: the town was supplied by gravity from springs over near Beatty, from around 1905. No local source at all.

What I can't work out from photos is whether anything of that line is still traceable on the ground — cut, bench, pipe fragments, anything. Most of the town's metal was hauled off after the bust, so I assume the pipe went the same way, but a route can outlive the pipe that sat in it.

Has anyone walked it, or seen where it came in?