Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight June 1900 July 1st a corporation was formed to develop the Recorder and Town Creek mines near Copper City. It was called the Pioneer Gold, Silver and Copper Mining Co. 2nd a front-page advertisement in Redding's Morning Searchlight read, "It's all profit after the first year if you buy property in Keswick. The earnings of the improvements on the property will pay for themselves and the land too." 3rd the price of the Iron Mountain Mine property for the year was fixed by the assessor at $1.75 million. 4th city trustees took a step they hoped would result in Redding being a well-sewered city with beautiful streets. The city attorney was instructed to examine the law as to bonding the city for street and sewer improvements. 5th the new town of Sallee, near Bully Hill Mine, was soon to have a second hotel. Henry Stacher was contemplating the building's construction and H. Briggs was drawing plans for the structure. 6th the county assessor completed his work on the assessment roll of property in Shasta County for the year. The 1,157,064 acres of land within the county was assessed at a little more than $3,645,000. 7th the Shasta Express was stopped three times near Anderson by grass fires. The fires were ignited by sparks from a fright train locomotive that was ahead of the passenger train by a few minutes. 8th if recommendations made by officers of the state Board of Health were acted on, Redding would have a new method of disposal of its sewage and several other radical changes would be made to benefit the city. 9th excavating for the smelter at Bully Hill was to start soon. Alex Graham of Redding was awarded the contract for the work. 10th an option for a bond on the Minnesota Mine on Spring Creek was coming up. Dan McCarthy of Keswick was still working the mine successfully under his lease. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/friend13.html