Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight September 1900 1st Redding celebrated the 28th annivesary of the railroad coming to the city. The first train carrying mail and other items pulled into Redding on the evening of Sept. 1, 1872. 2nd Marshal Fisher and Sheriff Behrens stopped the Day vs. Reay boxing match in Redding at the beginning of the 16th round because it was "excessively brutal." 3rd it was reported that the management of the McCloud River Railroad was going to extend its line from McCloud to Bartlee and was looking to hire 1,000 workers for the project. 4th an unusually heavy rain caused extensive damage to Shasta County's fruit crop. 5th there was a possibility that a sidewalk would be built along courthouse square on Court Street between Butte and Yuba streets in Redding. James Salle, owner of part of the land, offered to build a sidewalk on his property if the other property owners on the street would build the rest. 6th the trout streams of Shasta County were being rapidly restocked by the U.S. Fish Commission with young fish from the government station at Sisson. 7th the contract for building French Gulch School for $2,750 was awarded to Frank Scammon by trustees of the district. 8th the Shasta County Board of Supervisors decided to put $4,000 insurance on the new county hospital that was then only partially built. 9th Iron Mountain Investment Co., the development branch of Mountain Copper Co., gave up its bond on the Stowell group of copper mines in the Flat Creek District of Shasta County after seven months of development. 10th Harry L. Shannon was getting his Shingletown electrical power enterprise under way. His company was granted the right to erect poles and string wires for the transmission of power throughout the county. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/12b2000.html