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One mile north of this spot stood the boom town of Bryan. Founded in 1868 as a division point of the Union Pacific Railroad, it grew rapidly and had, at one time, as many as five thousand inhabitants. A twelve-stall roundhouse and huge freight warehouses were constructed and from the latter canvas-topped wagons piled high with goods of all types, departed daily for the south Pass gold mines, eight miles northeast. The water supply soon proved inadequate and when the South Pass gold mining bubble had burst, the railroad moved its division headquarters to Green River and Bryan became a ghost town.
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