Front:
Calico Main Street
Photo by Merle Porter
Back:
Calico Main Street
Unlike other mining camps the Silver at Calico
never petered out. In the 1870's Lafayette Mecham
had a trading post at Fish Springs, now called
Barstow. A horse was stolen from his place and
Mecham, along with a Frenchman, trailed the thief
to the Calico Hills, where they noticed a large red
vein. Some time later Frank Mecham, son of
Lafayette, related the incident to Sheriff King and
thought he could find the place. Frank, his uncle
Doc Yager and two deputy Sheriffs, Tom Warden
and Hue Thomas, grubstaked by King set out for
the hills. In a short time they found the vein and
put up an irregular parallelogram monument and
named the claim “The Silver King Mine"..M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
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