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Subject: [CASHASTA] Redding newspaper February 21-28 1901
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:08:48 -0700

Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight

February 1901

21st incorporation papers were being prepared for the Utah and California
Oil Development Co., which had a capital stock of $1 million and holdings
of 3,600 acres in western Shasta.

22nd Mt. Shasta Oil Co. was reported to be the first to begin drilling for
oil on its property in the Redding/Buckeye area.

23rd a locomotive was knocked off track by a huge boulder that rolled down
a steep bluff four miles north of Hornbrook. The passengers were shaken but
not injured and after five hours, the train was back on course.

24th the Redding Undertaking Co. was setting up its business in the
McChesney building on the southwest corner of Market and Placer streets.

25th a group of Redding merchants met and discussed plans to give
businessmen a place to spend their evenings sence an action had been set to
have businesses close early. They decided to form "The Clerks Club of
Redding" and set up a committee to start plans.

26th the Southern Pacific Rail Road Co. was giving its agents postcards
with a brief statement on the back giving reasons wood-be settlers from the
east should come to California.

27th the cause of a city blackout was found to be more serious than
expected. It was announced that it would take 10 days to get new coils and
rewind the armature that gives them power, costing the city $750.

28th a part-time employee of the Trinity Copper Co. was seriously injured
while blasting for a new pipeline for an air drill at Shasta King mine.
After being thrown 35 feet by an explosion, he was carried out on a
stretcher by his peers for five or six miles before a wagon was used to get
him to help.

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