Facilities near Cobalt, Idaho; Matthew Lengerich ... like countless mining communities before it, became a ghost town. By 1961, its population had dwindled to 20, and The New York Times predicted ...

Leo Marshall has been mayor of Salmon since 2010. He grew up in Cobalt, Idaho — now a mostly abandonned ghost town near the mine. His father worked at the Blackbird Mine. He said in an ...