SUSPENDED MINING OPERATIONS. The low price of silver during the past two years has resulted disastrously to the mining industry in Calico District. The great Waterloo, for many years the largest producer, and employing not less than 150 men in mines and mills, was closed down, as it seemed foolhardy to exhaust the great ore bodies when the profit derived from the extraction and milling of the ores was merely nominal. For years these mines had kept the sixty-stamp Boss process mill and the fifteen-stamp pan mill at Daggett busy night and day, but in the spring of 1892 the stamps were hung up and the mines closed, awaiting better prices for silver. The Silver King Mining Company (limited), of London, has continued to operate, dropping twenty to thirty stamps night and day, under the superintendency of William S. Edwards. The King Company owns or controls three important groups of mines in this district, viz.: the Odessa, the Oriental, and the Occidental. The Odessa made a record during the early history of the camp by the production of ores of high grade. The policy which was pursued in those “palmy days”—to gouge out the rich ore whenever it could be found, without regard to future condition of the mine—left most of the mines in very bad shape. The Odessa is now recovering under the new management, and the property is being systematically opened, and it is thought all the ore can be extracted. In this mine are stopes from which thousands of tons of ore have been mined, and there is not a stick of timber of any kind in them. These old stopes are being cleaned out, new levels opened, and good results are expected in the future. What applies to the Odessa in this respect is true to a great extent of every other large mine in Calico. They were all worked in a hand-to-mouth sort of fashion, and although many of these mines paid handsome dividends, little of the money was ever put back in anything like permanent improvement. All seemed to share a common opinion—that the deposits were superficial, and would not go down, and as a result no one felt like laying out money in an extravagant and unwarranted manner. But the mines have gone down, and the men in charge of the mines to-day can see the result of the mistaken economy of the early operators, and see in Calico an era of recovery of low-grade ore bodies and development work which is calculated to give the mines greater apparent permanency than ever heretofore. December 1, 1891, the King mill was enlarged by the addition of ten stamps, making thirty in all. The Boss process of continuous amalgamation was also adopted. CHLORIDING THE MINES.