Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight November 1900 11th the Redding board of trustees ordered Marshall Fisher to collect all road poll taxes due to the city to continue recent street improvements. 12th mining activity was picking up in the French Gulch district with two mines in the process of repairing their stamp mills and another striking a 3-foot vein of ore that assayed $300 per ton. 13th the public school at Buckeye had a new bell. S.S. Stickley, who contributed the money for the bell, made a speech and presented it to the school. 14th real estate agent J.J. Chambers advertised a 2-story home in Redding for $1,050. 15th affairs looked very promising for Shasta Consolidated Oil Co. with many people expressing a desire to buy stock in the corporation. One hundred thousand shares were to be put on the market soon. 16th it was reported that Shasta County would at last have its own power plant with Keswick Electric Power Co. ordering machinery for that plant's installation. 17th ore was being taken out of the Shafter Mine in French Gulch that "glittered with gold" and was worth about $1 per pound. 18th Redding blacksmith John George fell through the roof of his California Street shop while repairing it. He severely dislocated and broke his right shoulder in the fall. 19th a special election was called for the purpose of bonding the Redding School District for $10,000 to build a new school building in the city. 20th William Moran, a locomotive engineer on the Sisson and McCloud River Railroad, was instantly killed beneath his engine in McCloud. Moran had crawled beneath the engine to do some repair work when without warning it began moving and killed him. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/2d2001.html Janie My Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card site http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/cardidx.html