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		Calico Ghost Town is one of the few remaining original mining towns in the western part of the country and it has special events throughout the year.
		California is located on the west coast of the United States and has nearly every kind of landform that can be found in the country.
		California is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
	www.geocities.com /statesaz/California.html (3932 words)

	Calico Ghost Town, California
		At its height, the town boasted a population of 1,200, 22 saloons, a "Chinatown," and a well-known red light district.
		Calico's ghosts slumbered on its barren desert hillside until 1951, when a man named Walter Knott purchased the real estate upon which it sat.
		Calico is a delightful patchwork, the product of a checkered past, all woven together into a sight worth seeing.
	www.roadtripamerica.com /places/calico.htm (558 words)

	Calico California - Revived From A Desert Grave
		In the spring of 1881 came the discovery of the Silver King, Calico’s richest mine and less than a year later, the new settlement supported several businesses on a commercial street flanked by tents and adobe buildings on a narrow mesa between Wall Street Canyon and Odessa Canyon.
		By the late 1800's, Calico was bustling with prospectors searching their fortunes and the Calico Mining District became one of the richest in the state.
		Its owner, Walter Knott, as a young man helped build a silver mill in Calico at the time of World War I. One of the rebuilt attractions is the one-mile short line “Calico and Odessa” railroad which loops through steep canyons and hills past old mines and buildings north of Calico.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /CA-Calico.html (825 words)

	Calico Ghost Town, California
		Every year I receive literally hundreds of emails asking me to put Calico on the website......, ok, maybe not quite that many....., Ok, OK....., I have received only 2 emails asking me to add it, BUT there is no way in hell you can trace one of the two emails to my IP address.
		By 1882 the town was booming and in 1885 the voters passed a bond measure for a school house and the town echoed with the sound of over 100 stamps from the various mills around town.
		Calico featured a newspaper "The Calico Print", 3 hotels, over 5 stores, various saloons, a post office, Wells Fargo station, and a brothel that operated in the middle of the business district.
	www.ghosttownexplorers.org /california/calico/calico.htm (326 words)

	Nearshore Finfish Profiles: Calico Rockfish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The calico rockfish is a small, colorful rockfish species that does not exceed 10 in.
		Juvenile calico rockfish are found in areas of soft sand-silt sediment, and on artificial reefs.
		Calico rockfish frequently appear as a bycatch in prawn trawls in southern California, and are caught by sport anglers on Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessels (CPFVs) and private boats when they are fishing for other, larger benthic species.
	www.dfg.ca.gov /mrd/rockfish/calico.html (360 words)

	Calico Mining District
		The Waterman Gneiss to the south and west of the Calico Mountains is generally regarded as the oldest rock in the region.
		It lies along the southwest flank of the Calico Mountains, trending approximately N 60° W. It is described by Dibblee (1970) as a right lateral strike-slip fault.
		The Calico Mountains are part of a northwest plunging anticlinorium, itself folded into a series of synclines and anticlines with northwest plunges.
	geology.csupomona.edu /drjessey/fieldtrips/calico/calico.htm (2538 words)

	Terri Lynn's Vacations - Calico Ghost Town
		Calico Ghost Town is locate in Yermo, California.
		More than a 100 years ago, the town of Calico was bustling with prospectors.
		Silver was king, and the Calico Mining District became one of the richest in California, producing silver, borax and, gold.
	thogue24.tripod.com /Calico/calico.html (371 words)

	The Calico Archaeological Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Calico Cutter is a multifunctional tool type that has one lateral margin with a well-fashioned sinuous chopper edge and the opposite lateral margin has diagonal crests retouched for use as cutters.
		In October 1970, a four-day International Conference on the Calico Mountains Excavations was held at San Bernardino, sponsored by the San Bernardino County Museum, The University of Pennsylvania Museum, and the Leakey Foundation.
		In the Calico excavations the three points are the unit's northeast and northwest corners for horizontal position, and the unit's datum point for vertical position.
	calicodig.com /book/print/21 (16257 words)

	Calico Ghost Town
		Located on the Mojave desert about 15 miles northeast of Barstow, California, Calico -- which lived a long time for desert boomtowns, from 1881 till around 1929 -- was a rich strike, first of silver then later of borates.
		Calico was a wild place in its heyday with a nice collection of saloons (22 of them), bordellos, restaurants and boarding houses established to service the needs of its more than 1,200 citizens.
		Calico's decline began when the price of silver fell in the 1890s, but the borate production kept it alive, even through the panic of 1906.
	www.desertusa.com /mag99/oct/stories/calico.html (549 words)

	Calico California, a travelers story
		During its heyday it was a veritable hub replete with a population of 1,200, 22 saloons, a China Town and a “red light” district.
		The Calico Mining District became one of the richest in the state, producing over $86 million in silver and $45 million in borax.
		Fire swept through Calico in 2001 but thanks to the work of the San Bernardino County Office of Risk Management and San Diego architect Milford Wayne Donaldson, the ghost town was quick to recover.
	www.relocat.com /travelers_story_ca_calico.htm (852 words)

	Calico
		The whole area of Calico used to be a gigantic silver mining area in the late 1880's and what not.
		As you leave Calico, instead of making a right back onto the road which takes you to the 15 freeway, make a left.
		It takes you past the Calico campground, and over to the next valley behind the mountain Calico is located at).
	www.rajuabju.com /adventures/calico.htm (551 words)

	Calico Ghost Town : pictures and historic information
		This town developed in 1881 from silver discoveries in the Calico Mountains.
		The silver deposits were fabulously rich an produced around 20$ million dollars in silver ore and borates before the price of silver dropped in 1896 and the town became a ghost.
		Today, Calico is some kind of theme park, but Hank's Saloon and the remains of the mine are original.
	www.ghosttowngallery.com /htme/calico.htm (70 words)

	Calico Ghost Town - San Bernardino California - Page 1
		Calico California was founded in March 1881, the year that marked the beginning of one of the largest silver strikes in California.
		About one-third of the town is original, with the remaining being "re-creations in the spirit of the old west." Walter Knott, of Knott's Berry Farm fame, bought the town in 1951 and started the restoration process.
		Calico is located about ten miles north of Barstow along Interstate 15.
	www.shieldsnet.org /calico.html (109 words)

	Calico Ghost Town
		Silver was king, and the Calico Mining District became one of the richest in California, producing $86 million in silver, $45 million in borax and, of course, gold.
		Today, Calico is one of the few remaining original mining towns of the western United States.
		Knott donated Calico Ghost Town to the County of San Bernardino in 1966, and it remains alive and well as a 480-acre County Regional Park.
	www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us /parks/calico.htm (198 words)

	Calico Ghost Town, Calico Mojave Attractions California, Vegas Drive, Family Stop
		This is the most tourist-trap ghost town in the state of California.
		Bodie may be well known, but Calico takes the cake on amount of visitors, admission price, shops, entertainment and tours.
		Calico has a large RV campground with full hook ups and the tent spots are less that desirable.
	www.totalescape.com /destin/all_towns/calico.html (166 words)

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		The Calico Company (California Instrument Company) initially made instruments for oil drilling rigs, but soon saw their market diminish due to an increase in government regulations on oil exploration and drilling.
		Civilians are allowed to buy a Calico produced line of paint ball guns (for now), and some civilian versions of the Calico.22 may still be had using magazines produced before the ban.
		It should also be obvious that I greatly admire the design and quality of their firearms, and I can certainly sympathize with their plight at the hands of those who have no respect or understanding of the Constitution, or of representative and limited government.
	www.notpurfect.com /calico/company.html (1058 words)

	Calico, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1966, Walter Knott donated the town to San Bernardino County, and Calico became a county regional park.
		During the tours, one may see silver ore so rich that there are gray spots of silver in the rock.
		This Southern California location article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calico,_California (353 words)

	Narrative Account of Changes to Nearshore Environment
		I have spearfished most often on the Los Angeles and Ventura county coasts; at the islands of Catalina, Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and Santa Barbara; in northern Big Sur and Carmel and Monterey bays, and on the North Coast from Jenner (Sonoma County) to Fort Bragg (Mendocino County).
		I first came to suspect that Calico Bass and Sheepshead at the Channel Islands were declining in number and, notably, size.
		To dive in California is now less enjoyable--it is even sad--knowing as I do how vibrant with fish many of the reefs were just twenty-five years ago.
	www.californiafish.org /narr_nrdc-pc.html (597 words)

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		This 90 minute after dark tour through Calico Ghost Town in California is for all ages from 5 to 134 years of age.
		The Calico Ghost Walk is conducted on most (but not all) Saturday nights, February 1st through November 30th.
		By doing this it is easier for us to understand the ghost sightings that we have had in the past and are currently still experiencing.....
	www.calicoghostwalk.com (152 words)

	Calico 3rd Anual Trip
		It was March 31st, 2001 at 9:00 AM in the morning and 33 of the Mining Collect members were assembled at the Jenny Rose Cafe just outside of Barstow California.
		If you are ever driving on I15 on the Vegas to LA highway you will see a big red mountain with CALICO written on the side.
		It is rare for an artifact to have any reference to the town of Calico.
	www.caltelephone.com /lamps/calico_3rd_anual_trip.htm (1480 words)

	Calico - California Ghost Town
		Some is original, set up like an old ghost town.
		For the most colorful of the natural surroundings of any ghost town, Calico is the place to visit.
		By 1892, the town began to suffer the beginning of its decline but lasted until 1929 when it truly became a ghost town.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/ca/calico.html (130 words)

	Old West Reenactment in Calico, CA
		Old West Reenactment in Calico, CA Once again Andy "Sourdough" Moore and I were able to help judge the Old West reenactor skits presented by some of the best groups in the country.
		The Old West History Foundation's annual National Showdown was held during Calico Ghost Town's Heritage Fest November 27th and 28th, 1999.
		The Calico Regulators presented shootouts on a regular basis and the Mojave Muleskinners robbed the train.
	www.wildwestweb.net /calico.html (236 words)

	Colorado River Weekender: Local
		The year 1881 marked the beginning of one of the largest silver strikes in California history and the birth of Calico, California.
		The town of Calico is listed as State Historic Landmark #782, and survived in the early 1900s because of borax mining within the district.
		Calico's infamous “Character Hall of Fame” is located at the Town Hall building.
	www.crweekender.com /articles/2006/10/26/news/local/news36.txt (345 words)

	Barstow, California - DesertUSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Once a small mining center and railroad town in California's Mojave Desert, Barstow is located at the junction of 3 major highways -- Interstate 15, Interstate 40 and State Highway 58.
		It was originally called Calico Junction but was renamed after California Lieutenant Governor John Daggett when silver was discovered 6 miles north in the Calico Mountains in 1882.
		The finding of silver in Calico and the building of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Mohave to Daggett in 1882 made the area a mining center.
	www.desertusa.com /Cities/ca/barstow.html (598 words)

	Calico Ghost Town, an Old West Mining Adventure, in California
		One third of the town is original; the remaining carefully reconstructed to recreate the spirit of Calico's Old West past.
		The Town of Calico is State Historic Landmark #782, and survived in the early 1900's because of borax mining within the District.
		Calico's infamous "Character Hall of Fame" is located at the Town Hall building.
	www.calicotown.com (316 words)

	Barstow/Calico Koa, California
		Time to get out and breathe some fresh air, and Barstow/Calico Koa in California is just the place.
		The helpful operators of the campground and the good quality of everything here is reason enough to come here.
		This is a very comprehensive index of outdoors activities in the great state of California.
	www.hikercentral.com /campgrounds/101363.html (618 words)

	Calico Ghost Town, Barstow
		The ghost town of Calico lies 10mi/17km east of Barstow, near the U.S. From 1881 to 1896 it was one of the most important US-American towns, from where thousands set off to prospect for silver in the nearby mountains.
		When the price of silver fell in 1895 the silver mines closed and Calico went into decline.
		In 1954 the ghost town was restored by the owner of Knott's Berry Farm.
	www.planetware.com /barstow/calico-ghost-town-us-ca-cgtwn.htm (95 words)

	Women's Arts Festival at Clemson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1998 Calico Winds released their first CD, "All in One" [Bach, Nielsen, E. Carter, L. Schifrin, Zappa] to critical acclaim.
		In January, 2002 Calico Winds was honored by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters with a fully-produced showcase performance at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall as part of the "Classical Connections" Young Performers Career Advancement program.
		Calico Winds has been Faculty Wind Quintet in Residence at La Sierra University, and they have held residencies with the Idyllwild Arts Academy, the Claremont Youth Symphony, as well as at the Birch Creek Music Festival.
	www.clemson.edu /calendar/waf/calicogirls.htm (255 words)

	Rock Collecting Jasp-Agate at Calico, California
		This area is well worth the trip just to see and appreciate the beauty Mother Nature has bestowed on the hills surrounding Calico.
		While you are partaking of the beautiful scenery, you can collect some very worthwhile jasper to take home as a momento of your visit to this region of colorful history and landscape.
		As you round the curves of Mule Canyon, you'll be treated to the many purple, green, orange, yellow, gold and chocolate brown hued Calico Mountains.
	www.highdesertinsider.com /html/caljasp.htm (618 words)

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