https://travelnevada.com/ghost-town/metropolis-ghost-town/
15.2 miles from Wells, NV. Turn left on 8th Street, continue for 12.7 miles, take the first left after you cross over the cattle grate, drive 2.5 miles. The New York based Pacific Reclamation Company’s scheme of building a city and surrounding it with farms looked like a good idea late in 1909. When the plan was on the drawing board the next year it looked even better. In the midst of over 40,000 acres of farms was to be a modern city of 7,500. An office opened in Salt Lake City in the summer and the great reclamation project soon to rise on the Nevada desert was heavily publicized.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/metropolis-ghost-town
METROPOLIS IS AN UNUSUAL NEVADA ghost town. The town was developed from an early 20th-century attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush lands near Wells.The town had largely dried up by the mid-1930s due to low agricultural prices and conflicts over water rights. In particular, a lawsuit from downstream water users in the Humboldt River drainage blocked using irrigation water from a local creek.