Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight December 1900 21st the rich timberland in the Sheep Rock and Grass Valley regions of Siskiyou County was soon to be opened up by means of a logging road. County Supervisor Abner Weed was the main proponent of the road. 22nd Dr. O. J. Lawry of Redding was granted a U.S. patent for his ingenious bicycle invention. The invention consisted of springs in the forks of the bicycle that would compress when the wheel passed over an obstacle, thus minimizing jarring. 23rd a landslide at Castle Crags caused by recent storms delayed traffic for several days on the Southern Pacific Railroad. 24th by a decisive vote of 95-33, the tax payers of the Redding School District refused to a bond proposition of $10,000 to build a new schoolhouse in place of the building that was then serving as the Pine Street primary school. 25th train traffic was delayed by a derailment of a southbound freight at Gregory Switch near the Sacramento River Bridge. Three cars were demolished, but no one was hurt. 26th it was reported that work on the free bridge south of Redding was progressing. The bridge was closed to traffic while the heavy side cords were renewed. 27th it was reported that a strike had been made in the Afterthought mine in Shasta County. Workers struck a 16-foot wide crosscut of solid, high-grade ore at a depth of 100 feet. 28th six new cases of smallpox were reported in Grass Valley, the disease has passed down from Grants Pass and Ashland, Ore., to Red Bluff, Marysville and Grass Valley. No cases of the disease had been reported in Redding. 29th it was reported that the foundry and machine shops at Mountain Copper Co. in Keswick were the largest and most complete of any north of Sacramento. 30th mining man Earl Blowers reported that a large body of rich ore had been discovered in the De La Mar Bully Hill mines. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/4c2001.html Janie My Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card site http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/cardidx.html