PLACE
STAMP
HERE
MAIN STREET – CALICO, CALIFORNIA
Unlike other Western Silver Camps, Calico is one that
was never worked out. With the drop in the price
of silver the camp kept going with borax. One story is
that the town was named by a miner, Shorty Peabody,
who offered a toast "Let's name her Calico boys, she's
as purty as a gal's calico dress!" From the district over
$80 million in silver was taken out with the Silver King
credited as having produced $10 million. As a western
mining town Calico was remarkable for law and order.
The first mining claim was filed on April 7, 1881, but
mining had taken place for some time .. M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
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Published by Royal Pictures - Colton, California
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