Whoreless House
June, 1985
Ely, Nevada, is a small mining community whose oldest working brothel dates back to the early 1900s. Although hundreds of bachelor diggers once hacked a living from the copper pits on the edge of a city of 9000, the copper is long gone and the population has shrunk to about half that.The economic outlook for Ely is not unrelievedly bleak, however. A few miners still extract gold and silver from nearby mineral seams, and then there is The Horizontal Bore & Drilling Company, Inc., the hottest grow...
