Eleven minutes of the auction and 900,000 US dollars, it was necessary that an anonymous buyer become the new owner of the town of Buford in the US state Wyominng, whose sole inhabitant of the sale and gave all his property.
Successful Bidder at the auction became the owner of the postcode, the school built in 1905, three-room house, as well as the sole source of income in Buford - gas stations and stores.
Sammons who for years called the owner and Mayor Buford town was bought in 1992, when he moved there with his wife and son. But Terry Sammons passed away a few years ago and his son moved out, and Sammons thought it was time that he left one of the smallest US cities.
Buford was erected sixties of the 19th century, during the building of the transcontinental railroad, but before the line was diverted, it had a population of 2000 inhabitants.