Ryan (California)

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Ryan
Lyla C. Borax mine at Ryan

Ryan (also known as New Ryan , Devar, or Devair ) is an abandoned mining community in Inyo County , California . It is located at an elevation of 928 m (3,045 feet ) in the Amargosa Range 13 km (8 miles) northeast of Dante's View and 24 km (15 miles) southeast of Furnace Creek .

Surname

The name Ryan goes back to a settlement near Lila-C. -Bergwerk, which was founded in 1907 to borates for the Pacific Coast Borax Company degrade . The settlement was originally named after Lila C. Coleman, daughter of the mine owner William Tell Coleman . But it was renamed Ryan after a change of ownership to honor John Ryan (* 1849, † 1918), the General Manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company.

When Lila C. moved the miners' settlement to Devar in 1914, it was named New Ryan to distinguish it from the older Old Ryan settlement .

After the mines were closed in 1927, the settlement was called "Devar" or, probably due to a typographical error on an official map, "Devair". Devar is an acronym for the terminus of the De ath Va lley R ailroad (DVRR) of the lying of the ore six near mines with a narrow-gauge railway into the valley to Death Valley Junction was taken.

Devar was near the following six mines :

  • Played Out Mine, 3km north of the DVRR rail line
  • Biddy McCarthy Mine, just south of the DVRR rail line
  • Lower Biddy McCarthy Mine, just south of the DVRR rail line
  • Grand View Mine, south of the DVRR rail line
  • Lizzie V. Oakley Mine, just south of the DVRR rail line
  • Widow Mine, south of the DVRR rail line

history

Death Valley Railroad rail bus
Baby-Gauge Narrow Gauge Railway operated by the Pacific Coast Borax Company

New Ryan was at the northwest end of the Death Valley Railroad at the six borax mines of the Pacific Coast Borax Company. According to the Death Valley Conservancy , it was a luxury camp for the time with electric lights , steam heating and refrigeration, and had a school, hospital, post office, recreation hall and shop.

After borax mining ceased in 1928, the Brill rail bus continued to travel on the 3 foot (914 mm ) gauge Death Valley Railroad from the Amargosa Hotel in Death Valley Junction to Devar. The miners' residential buildings were converted into another hotel, from which they could take the so-called baby-gauge narrow -gauge railway with a gauge of 610 mm (2 feet) to one of the abandoned mines. Located in Devar, the Death Valley View Hotel was in operation from 1927 to 1930. After that, operations on the Death Valley Railroad were discontinued.

The climatically favorable camp is now operated by the Death Valley Conservancy after the Rio Tinto Borax Corporation transferred the buildings to this non-profit charity on May 6, 2013, whose president and treasurer is the former Rio Tinto Chief Executive of Energy & Minerals, Preston Chiaro, is.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b TS Bryan, B Tucker-Bryan: Tourism and the national park . In: The explorer's guide to Death Valley National Park , 2nd. Edition, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 2009, ISBN 978-0-87081-962-9 : "After the mines closed in October 1927, the visitors had a second option of staying in the Death Valley View Hotel in remodeled rooms at Ryan, which was renamed Devar (later, Devair). "
  2. ^ US Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ryan, California
  3. ↑ Hildebrand, GH. (1982) Borax Pioneer: Francis Marion Smith. San Diego: Howell-North Books. ISBN 0-8310-7148-6
  4. ^ David L. Durham: California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif .: Word Dancer Press, 1998, p. 1198. ISBN 1-884995-14-4 .
  5. ^ Desert Fog: Ryan, Death Valley, California. Chapter 1.
  6. ^ Ryan Mining Camp, Death Valley , Death Valley Conservancy; Original content ( memento from July 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ^ Rio Tinto Announces Donation of Historic Ryan Camp to DVC Press Release

Coordinates: 36 ° 19 ′ 23 "  N , 116 ° 40 ′ 17"  W.