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Calico, a ghost town located in Yermo halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, was once a very productive silver mining town, home to over 3,000 people in the 1880s. The decline in silver prices killed the mines in 1896, and the town shriveled to nothing. Today's Calico is a 1950s reconstruction by Walter Knott (of Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park) on top of the original building foundations, donated to the County of San Bernardino in 1967. I am on the Calico & Odessa Railroad. I am looking up at some leftover mounds from the once-productive mines of Calico. At current prices, it is estimated that assaying those mounds would yield a sizable amount of silver, worth $6 million. However, the cost of the processing would be $10 million. Declining silver prices and the resulting poor economics is what killed this town in 1896. |
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| Author | InSapphoWeTrust from Los Angeles, California, USA |
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