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. Janie my Shasta Site http://myclouds.tripod.com/shasta/shastaco.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/3b2000.html