Patsville seemed to serve as sort of a suburb of Mountain City and Rio Tinto. ONce Rio Tino folded, so did Patsville. Shawn Hall says:
Patsville, on the other hand, remained a small community named after Pat Maloney. Maloney and Marge Clark ran a sporting house and dance hall in Patsville (Hall 1998:132). Other services included a drugstore, service station and garage, a boarding house, saloons and a red light district. The population of Patsville reached to about fifty individuals at its height. In May 1937 the entire town of Patsville was sold to William Doyle for $15,000 (Hall 1998:133).
It was a going concern for a while
Patsville, newest portion of the camp, located between Mountain City and the mine, has also been suffering from growing pains. Here the business buildings include a store, garage, and service station, drug store, show shop, and saloon. Homes are less permanent than at Rio Tinto or Mountain City. Most of them are tents and trailer houses.
-Idaho Statesman, November 21, 1937
MOUNTAIN CITY MUD This town, 85 miles north of Elko, now boasts one of the world's greatest copper mines. It's undoubtedly the city of mines and MUD! The main drag is one foot deep with the gooy gravy. Bill Doyle, the man who originally built Cal-Neva, has a bar close to the Rio Tinto mine at a junction called Patsville. Bill is formerly of Reno and Elko.
-Nevada State Journal, December 10, 1938
One structure remains on the east side of the road-- that we could find, anyway. The brush is pretty tall. Where the other buildings were on teh west side, a fire seems to have come through and taken everything.