Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight May 1900 10th several Redding businessmen secured a lease on Armory Hall in Redding for two years at a monthly rent of $50. The men were planning to turn the hall into a theater and change its name to the Orpheum. 11th the grounds surrounding the Shasta County Courthouse in Redding were to be enclosed with a fence. The plans and specifications were discussed at a meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. 12th a new oil company was expected to come to Shasta County in the district of the supposed oil belt of Stinking Canyon. 13th a new wagon road leading from Redding to Copper City and DeLamar's Bully Hill mines was a possibility in the near future. The road would reduce the distance between the points by at least six miles. 14th the Shasta County Board of Supervisors did not select a site for Shasta County High School to be built at its May meeting. 15th Shasta County would soon have a new hospital. The Board of Supervisors ordered an advertisement for bids for the construction of the hospital building. 16th L. Jones, a leading property owner in Keswick, charged that the census returns for the Campton (Keswick) School District had been falsified. He said there were at least 150 more names than there should have been. 17th George Nuzenbello, who was arrested and declared insane in Redding, was committed to the Napa State Mental Hospital. The man made "scrap iron" out of bars on his cell door and a huge jail bed in his cell during his stay at Shasta County Jail. 18th it was reported that the Black Spider Mine near Keswick was producing well. Several men were employed working in the mine's shaft, which was 125 feet deep and steadily getting deeper. 19th Jim Sallee, onetime owner of Iron Mountain Mine, made a number of oil deals in which he made close to $100,000 profit. It was reported he had interests in a dozen different oil-producing companies. 20th the pupils of the Redding high school gave their teachers a reception at the high school building. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card - http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/9b2000.html