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MAGGIE MINE - CALICO, CALIFORNIA
Some time before Calico, the town, was named, the district was
known as the Calico Hills, due to coloring of the soil and rocks.
The miners called a meeting to name the town. Gathering
around the traditional keg of refreshments, names of Buena
Vista, Calico, Silver Gulch and Silver Canyon were suggested,
but when Shorty Peabody offered a toast "lets name her Calico
boys, Shes as purty as a gal's calico dress," Calico became a
town in name. H. Hartman and M. Lawrence filed the first
claims on March 26, 1881 but mining had been going on some
time before this date. Silver was found as far away as Gold-
stone, now in the Camp Irwin area ...M.P.
B-391 - Photo-color by Merle Porter
© & Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California
B-391 - Photo-color by Merle Porter
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