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Subject: [CASHASTA] Redding newspaper September 21-30 1900
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:52:04 -0800
Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight
September 1900
21st the Josephine mine in the Shasta District looked like a bonanza with
an 18-inch ledge of ore being taken from it with the rock going as high as
$143 per ton.
22nd the Democratic County Convention was getting under way in Redding with
large audiences expected to attend.
23rd a collision between a fright train and two hand cars near Clear Creek
resulted in injuries to 12 men in section foreman J. McNeill's crew, which
was riding south on the two hand cars.
24th arrangements were complete for the gathering of the Grand Encampment
of Odd Fellows, scheduled to be conducted that week in Redding.
25th attendance at the first day of the Northern California Driving Club
races, in conjunction with the District Fair, was much larger than
anticipated.
26th a wax figure of a woman was displayed in the window of Mrs. F. A.
Hertier's store, the Millener, on Yuba Street in Redding as part of the
store's official fall and winter opening.
27th figures showed there that there were far more registered Democrats in
Shasta County than Republicans.
28th the Mammoth and Stowell groups of copper mining claims in Shasta
County were bonded to parties from the east coast.
29th agents for the German government were buying horses in the Butte
Creek, Little Shasta, Big Shasta and Klamath Lake areas of Northern
California and Southern Oregon for shipment to China.
30th the new packing house for Porter Brothers Co. was completed in
Anderson under contract by Cal Bainbridge. Processing machinery for the
treatment of prunes was being installed in the new building.
Janie
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