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CELICO
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MAGGIE MINING CO
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MAGGIE MINE
CALICO, CALIFORNIA
Calico history is unique among the silver camps of
the west. The mines were never worked out. With
the drop in the price of silver the miners and towns
people left. They felt that this was only a temporary
deal so the merchants left much of their stock to
return when the price of silver went up. Maggie
Mine was one such mine. Mines were named much the
same way that towns were named in the old west. The
miners were sitting around singing songs, one of the
songs was "When You and I Were Young Maggie."
This new mine had not been given a name so it was
called "Maggie Mine." It was back in the 1870's
when Lafayette Mecham first saw signs of ore out-
croppings in the Calico Hills. . . M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
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45930-B
Copyrighted & Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California
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