About 40 miles northwest of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is the former mining boom town of Chloride.

This structure, called locally the "Doodle Dum Building", was built by Austin Crawford in 1921. An original inhabitant of Chloride since 1880, this was actually the second stone house that Crawford built, this one to protect its inhabitants from large hailstones which Crawford believed would one day rain down in a display of God's wrath. Photo by Dave Alexander, February, 2008.