Zabriskie names "Man of the Year"
by A. Desert Sage
Each year the ghost town of Zabriskie California (corn- has accumulated over the area, as well as on the highway
monly call Dodge City today), on the historic, but now roadside. It would be served well with a general cleanup.
abandoned, Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, comes to It could also allay any cause for action, on the part of the
life like the phoenix. Zabriskie is about five miles south of health department, or the land owner.
Shoshone and three miles northwest of Tecopa Hot Springs. This year, one man (we will call him "Bob") became the
It becomes the winter home for visitors from places as near source of that cleanup. He arrived sometime in September
as Pahrump, and as far away as Central Europe. These and began the project early in October, to not only pick up
winter residents augment the sole year-around occupant, the trash in the camp proper, but also, along Greenwater
who maintains a camp on the outskirts of Zabriskie. road onto the mesa west of Zabriskie, along Highway 127,
They arrive as early as and the three miles of county
September using all modes road form the highway june-
of transportation. They tion to Tecopa Hot Springs.
come with mountain bikes €' They seek the desert for The litter gathering was
and tents, trucks, vans and not just from the graded
motor homes. Some lack the its beauty, its solitude and dtches along the road. It
fee for an RV Park, while included some 150 to 200
others arrive in vehicles its healing properties for feet on either side of the
whichmustcostoverahun- road. It was an accumula-
dred thousand dollars. Some daily
come to stay overnight, oth- stress" tion of worn tires, old bat-
teries, car parts, metal roof-
ers for a week or a month , , ing, as well as the usual cans,
and not a few for the entire glass, paper and plastic. It
winter season. They seek the desert for its beauty, its was not pounds, or hundreds of pounds, it was thousands
solitude and its healing properties for daily stress, of pounds of debris. Disposal presented a secondary prob-
Some select a site near the junction of Highway 127 and lem. A problem which was solved through the cooperation
Tecopa Hot Springs road. While others find the areas of the local personnel of the Inyo County Road Depart-
further west along the desert road developed by the Car- merit. Pickup of the collected litter was made from the
bonate Lead Mine in 1913, to haul the galena ore from roadside, using county trucks, and taken to the solid waste
g
Death Valley to the railroad at Zabriskie. Certain groups disposal site.
and those seeking the greatest solitude frequently find the Now "Bob" is a rather modest and shy person, seeking
BLM mesa some miles west along the oid Greenwaterroad his privacy when it comes to platitudes and accolades.
to their liking. However, it was at the November 11, Tecopa Senior's
Zabriskie is private land owned by the successors of the meeting at the Community Center that the winter residents
Amargosa Borax Works. The winter visitors have used this of Zabriskie (Dodge City) declared "Bob" their "Man of the
private land over the past 25 or more years at the discretion Year." While the Tecopa Seniors were expressing their
of the owners. Each year, the rumors circulate that the site gratitude for his community involvement, one oftbe winter
is going to be closed to camping. Probably due to the trash residents of Zabriskie offered the first $25, in "Bob's" honor,
and waste water dumping which occasionally occurs. Each for the community service which he had rendered. This
year, the rumors have not resulted in the land being posted, resulted in what seems to be a ground-swell, as the contri-
Of course, over the years a considerable amount of trash butions were received from those of his camping associates,
as well as the members and
visitors to the communities
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