Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight August 1900 21st the residents of the Carville area of northern Trinity County would soon have closer communications with the Southern Pacific Railroad's main line. Slatonis was to be the area's point of communication with the outside world. 22nd Frances Carr, secretary of the Democratic County Central Committee, returned to Redding from Copper City after organizing substantial Bryan and Stevenson clubs there. 23rd a man named Kioano was thrown from the northbound freight by a breakman for trying to steal a ride. The wheels of a train ran over his foot severing it. 24th G.E. Bailey returned to Redding from a monthlong stay in San Francisco, where he was overseeing the construction of additional machinery for Adele Co.'s new mill in Lewiston. 25th mining man J.H. Tibbits thought there was a great future for the French Gulch Mining District. Tibbits had just returned from a business tour of the district. 26th Capt. H.G. Lambson, the man in charge of north state fisheries, said the take of salmon eggs at the fishery that year was excessively small. 27th after an unexplained explosion in the well on William Hobbs' farm in the Sanders Flat area, the water in the well began "churning and boiling and was unfit for use." 28th walnut-sized hail fell in Redding, along with heavy rain. It was the first precipitation in the region sence June. 29th renowned pugilist Mike Egan was employed at a machine shop in Keswick. 30th a good strike of ore was reported in the Arps of copper claims just north of Copper City in Shasta County. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/11d2000.html