Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight September 1900 21st the Josephine mine in the Shasta District looked like a bonanza with an 18-inch ledge of ore being taken from it with the rock going as high as $143 per ton. 22nd the Democratic County Convention was getting under way in Redding with large audiences expected to attend. 23rd a collision between a fright train and two hand cars near Clear Creek resulted in injuries to 12 men in section foreman J. McNeill's crew, which was riding south on the two hand cars. 24th arrangements were complete for the gathering of the Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows, scheduled to be conducted that week in Redding. 25th attendance at the first day of the Northern California Driving Club races, in conjunction with the District Fair, was much larger than anticipated. 26th a wax figure of a woman was displayed in the window of Mrs. F. A. Hertier's store, the Millener, on Yuba Street in Redding as part of the store's official fall and winter opening. 27th figures showed there that there were far more registered Democrats in Shasta County than Republicans. 28th the Mammoth and Stowell groups of copper mining claims in Shasta County were bonded to parties from the east coast. 29th agents for the German government were buying horses in the Butte Creek, Little Shasta, Big Shasta and Klamath Lake areas of Northern California and Southern Oregon for shipment to China. 30th the new packing house for Porter Brothers Co. was completed in Anderson under contract by Cal Bainbridge. Processing machinery for the treatment of prunes was being installed in the new building. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/122000.html