The silver boom faded after a decade, and the town shrank.

After the sawmill closed at the beginning of the Great Depression, the town shrank further.

The town was once large but shrunk over time.

However, the town has been gradually shrinking since 1950.

But the town shrank dramatically when the proud Negro residents had exhausted their savings with no way of making a living.

The town shrank again when the mines closed after about a decade.

The town of Split shrank as the helicopter gained height.

Without the railroad to spur economic growth, the town shrank and investors looked elsewhere to make a good return.

By the late 1980s the town had shrunk to a two-room elementary school, a store, a Catholic church, and a cluster of adobe houses.

The high costs and low copper prices finished the town in the Depression and population of workers shrank to nothing.