William Joshua Hammans And The Founding Of Project City

Above: William Joshua Hammans (1876-1937) the founder of Project City wearing his police uniform and badge, next to his vehicle in Redding. From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.

My paternal great-great grandfather was William Joshua Hammans who was born at Shingletown on May 9, 1876, to Henry Hammans Sr., and Hannah (Moss) Hammans his parents came to Shasta County in 1865, they lived at both Shingletown and at Ludwig’s Bridge west of Cottonwood. He married Charlotte Sarah Kidder on April 23, 1899, at Ono. She was a daughter of Reverend William S. Kidder and Mary Elizabeth (McFarlin) Kidder. Early on, Hammans was a farmer, and a stockman of western Shasta County, who served as a Justice of the Peace of the Ono township from 1908 to 1916. Then he became a police officer in Redding who later served as the 13th City Marshal of Redding, from 1923 to 1926, City Marshals are now known as Police Chiefs. 

Then, William J. Hammans bought land in 1931 near the town of Mountain Gate, and in 1935 William and his son Earl Eugene Hammans erected and operated a restaurant and merchandise store on their property, which they named Midway Associated Service Station and Cafe. In 1937 William and his son Earl started to subdivide the area with the help of W.T. Lanning, a real estate agent. Their subdivision was called the Hammans Tract located on Grand Coulee Boulevard which would also feature commercial frontage as well. People started purchasing from them that year and the area of Midway became a flourishing town later known as Project City. It was Hammans and his son who founded Project City, in Shasta County.

Above: is the Midway Associated Cafe and Service Station, owned and operated by William Joshua Hammans and his son Earl Eugene Hammans. From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.

William J. Hammans was also an apartment complex owner that owned and operated Hammans' Apartments on Yuba Street, in Redding and, a grocery store in Redding called Hammans' Cash Grocery. Later in life, Hammans was a janitor at local Redding area schools and a prison guard at Folsom State Prison. He died in Chico, Butte County, California, on February 27, 1938, at the age of sixty-two. He is buried in Redding Memorial Park at Redding.

During May of 1938, W.T. Lanning proudly boasted about Project City in an article which appeared in the Searchlight newspaper, of Redding, and stated that his lots would all be located on 50 to 60 foot wide streets. Lanning also told the local media that he would build a lumber yard at Project City to make the demand of lumber sales easier for local residents to assist them in the erection of their future residential and commercial buildings in the area. One of the first commercial buildings erected at Project City was completed by Dr. Donald B. Marchus who was a local physician in the area. This medical facility was the first of its kind here and it remained to be the only medical facility in the Shasta Dam Boomtown region.

At a meeting on April 12, 1939, property owners of the area adjacent to the intersection of Highway 99 and the Kennett road, nine miles north of Redding, voted 38 to 52 that night to call the region "Project City" instead of Hammans which was the other name presented. There was an estimated population of 1,500 persons at that time according to one newspaper article. Over 200 people attended the meeting but only property owners were allowed to vote on the naming of the community. The suggested name of Hammans which would have been named in honor of William J. Hammans lost by four votes. However, a Hammans Voting Precinct was also created for the Project City area as well.

Then on, October 10, 1939, a second class United States Post Office was established at Project City which was located eight miles north of Redding, and one mile east of Central Valley, with the appointment of Howard P. Nelson as the first postmaster for this place. A one room schoolhouse was erected at Project City, that year, by E.J. Phillips. Phillips was then awarded another contract on May 21, 1940, to enlarge the school with a two room addition for a contract of $6,720. Project City saw a large influx of students enroll into the upcoming school year, and the school needed more space to accommodate their students.

Years later on, March 26, 1975, the second class Project City United States Post Office changed to a branch of Central Valley, and still controls the mail for the area today. The Project City branch United States Post Office is located on Cascade Boulevard.

Above: the Project City Market at Project City, near Shasta Dam, California. This photo was taken by J.H. Eastman. Courtesy of David Stuart.

Above: the headstone of William Joshua Hammans (1876-1938) who is buried in the Redding Memorial Park at Redding. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on August 1, 2014.

Above: the headstone of Earl Eugene Hammans (1907-1974), a son of William Joshua Hammans and Charlotte Lottie (Kidder) Hammans. His headstone states: "A Founder of Project City". Also buried next to him is his wife Virginia (Dare) Hammans (1915-1998) in the Ono Cemetery at, Ono, Shasta County, California. This photograph was taken July 4, 2018 by Jeremy Tuggle.

Above: the Project City branch U.S. Post Office still exists today on Cascade Boulevard. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on August 19, 2022.

Resources: 

Brevities - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 7, 1908

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, October 3, 1911

Mrs. Leschinsky Buy Big Farm West of Ono - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, March 17, 1914

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 23, 1915

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 10, 1917

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 16, 1917

W.J. Hammans to Be City Marshal at Opening of Year - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, December 22, 1922

W.E. Smith Is Marshal - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, June 17, 1926

W.J. Hammans for Justice of The Peace - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 17, 1926

W.J. Hammans Called Beyond - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 28, 1938

William J. Hammans Rites Held Wednesday - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 2, 1938

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, May 8, 1938

Project City Selected as Name of Area - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 13, 1939

The Sacramento Bee newspaper of Sacramento, May 21, 1940

Redding Police Department History Project

Oral History of the Hammans Family by Linda (Hammans) Vest by the Honorable Judge Richard B. Eaton

The Hammans Family written by Virginia (Dare) Hammans

The Shasta Dam Boomtown Community Building in the New Deal Era written by Al M. Rocca, 1993, 162 pages. Published by Redding Museum of Art And History Center. ISBN: 1-884055-00-1

The Story of William Joshua Hammans by Jeremy M. Tuggle - The Covered Wagon 2004, pages 91-93, published by Shasta Historical Society. 128 pages. ISSN 0574-3680

A 1939 $100,000 JAIL REMAINS ABANDONED IN REDDING

On July 30, 1888, the Sacramento Daily Union newspaper, of Sacramento, reported the following future improvements for Redding which became Shasta County’s brand-new county seat, that year;

"SHASTA'S COURT-HOUSE

A new Court-house for Shasta County is to be erected at Redding. The plans and specifications of the architect, A.A. Cook, of this city, have been accepted by the Board of Supervisors. The building completed is to cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. The plan shows a neat and tasty edifice. There will be three main entrances, a large court-room, numerous vaults, and the structure will be ornamented by a beautiful dome, on which will stand a statue of Justice. The jail will occupy the ground in the rear of and connecting with the court-house, and is to cost $10,000.” [SIC]

Construction on the City of Redding's first Shasta County Jail was completed prior to April of 1889, when a fire insurance map was surveyed for the city, that month, which describes this courthouse property exactly like the above article states. Years later, severe damage was done to the Shasta County Jail from attempted jail breaks to natural effects and nature related damages. Then in 1903 the jail reached its maximum capacity of prisoners and it made the Shasta County Board of Supervisors re-evaluate the jail structure. They determined that the smelter smoke fumes most notably from the Mountain Copper Mining Company, LTD., at Keswick, was eating through structures of the Shasta County Courthouse and the Shasta County Jail. However, most of the damage was caused to the tin roof of the jail at Redding.

Another fire insurance map was surveyed in February of 1904 which shows another new addition in the form of a fountain in the front yard of the Shasta County Courthouse facing Court Street, and additional features were added to the Shasta County Jail in the rear of the Courthouse by that date. This jail now featured a wood shed in the back yard, and an additional structure with cells to incarcerate their insane prisoners. These new features were located in the jail yard which had a fifteen foot brick wall wrapping around it's perimeter backing West Street.

On August 2, 1912, a freakish nature related incident occurred when a single bolt of lightening during a lightening storm struck the Shasta County Jail at Redding, although the location of the strike was never found the sound echoed through the city, while it shook the building. Not one person inside the jail was injured from the strike of lightning. Even the incarcerated inmates inside the jail at Redding were displeased with the accommodations of the structure and found it poorly unfit through out the decade leading into the 1920s.

Above: is Redding’s first Shasta County Jail which was erected in 1888 for $10,000, along with the Shasta County Courthouse. It was situated in the rear of the courthouse property which also included a registered street address of 1313 Court Street. Courtesy of the Shasta Historical Society. 

Oddly, opium found its way into the Shasta County Jail in 1922, while the inmates who were non drug users witnessed other prisoners heating "hop" in spoons and administering it in their presence inside their jail cells. Additional narcotics were also distributed as well while prisoners passed them around from cell to cell by placing the drugs in hats and shoving across the aisle of the corridor with brooms and using them to get high. In 1925, narcotics from the evidence locker room of the jail disappeared and they were distributed amongst the inmates. Surprisingly, local authorities discovered that it was an inside job by one of their own officers. 

During the 1930s, the City of Redding was filled with tons of illegal activity and unsavory criminals while the city’s Red Light District (or tenderloin) was booming and the Ladies of the Night kept their clients returning for more satisfaction inside the brothels these women worked in downtown. While prostitution was rising the increase of syphilis cases climbed in Redding, it was District Attorney, Francis J. Carr who ordered all prostitutes to leave the city, or he would be forced to take legal action against anyone violating his orders which were based under the red light abatement law which was approved that decade and made it illegal for them to work in their profession. 

In addition, the construction of Shasta Dam began in 1938 and it’s construction was steadily progressing to be finished in 1945. Meanwhile, the Shasta Dam construction workers visited Redding quite often to drink in the local saloons and they caused many saloon brawls, and outdoor public intoxication. Drunk driving was also a regular occurrence which made local headlines and there were additional disturbances which were cited by local law enforcement. 

While the arrests were doubling by the local authorities, due to all of the above activity, the present jail, pictured above, reached it’s maximum capacity of prisoners again. This jail needed major repairs even though it was utilized by local law enforcement until 1939, for a total of fifty-one years. Eventually, the building which was unsound made the Shasta County Board of Supervisors apply for a grant for a new jail through the federal government. 

Above: the three-story 1939 jail remains abandoned next to the present-day Shasta County Courthouse on Court Street. A fence protects it with video surveillance around the abandoned jail property. This photograph was taken through an open space of the fence line by Jeremy Tuggle on January 16, 2021.

$56,000 was already placed into a special fund by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors to be utilized to pay for the brand-new jail. This was required to prove to the federal government that their portion of the jail cost was available before a $44,000 grant was awarded to them by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works to pay for the remaining cost of the construction of the brand-new jail. The jail was designed as a three-story building by a San Francisco architectural firm called Masten & Hurd.

The new jail was erected on the north-west lot of the present Shasta County Courthouse property on Court Street. It was C.H. Dodd a contractor from Stockton who was awarded the contract of the new jail. He placed a bid at $92,452, and Dodd was instructed to begin the construction process by September 26, 1938. 

The Courier-Free Press newspaper, of Redding, heralded this article about the construction of the brand-new Shasta County Jail building on February 22, 1939:

“Work Progresses On County Jail

The structure of the new county jail has been completed, and work of installing cells has begun. Half of the first floor cells have been put into place, and work is also being started on installation of the second floor block. All pipes have installed, and plumbing fixtures will soon be put into place. Each cell will have individual plumbing.”

The interior of the facility contained cellblocks which were known as cells. Each cell was measured at 4.5 feet wide by 8 feet long and it included two bunks with a toilet and a sink for the inmates. The sheriff and his deputies called them "tanks." Tanks Number 1 and 2 had two bunks each, and tanks Number 3 and 4 housed four people in each cell. The facility also included a kitchen, an enclosed prisoner drop off area, a dining room, a visitor center, a narcotics evidence locker room and an evidence locker room, with a laundry room.

Eight months later after the above article was printed, Shasta County Sheriff, William W. Sublett, transferred his office from the Shasta County Courthouse into a room of the newly completed jail building along with Constable W.A. Houston’s office, on October 4, 1939. The transferring of prisoners from the former jail to the new jail took place on October 5th, and Ferol Thorpe, of Redding, had the distinguish honor to be the first attorney to interview a prisoner in the brand-new facility. She interviewed her client an inmate named William D. Moore. Moore was charged with automobile theft.

Above: on a private tour of the 1939 Shasta County Jail, local historian and author, Jeremy M. Tuggle, is shown here inside a jail cell. This photograph was taken on March 26, 2016. 

Other inmates who were transferred amongst that first group of prisoners to the new jail were Buddy Giboney and Rudolph Phenegar. Giboney was held and awaiting to be charged for his role in the murder of a local woman. Phenegar was charged with assaulting a woman with the intention to commit rape in the Burney area. It was Superior Court Judge, Albert F. Ross Jr., who sentenced Phenegar to a term of 1-20 years at San Quinten State Prison.

The most famous inmate housed at this jail was local serial killer and rapist Darrell Rich, a resident of Cottonwood, known as the “Hilltop Rapist” and “Young Elk”, Rich was arrested by authorities in 1978 for the murders of three adult women and a young girl between June and August of 1978. He was later sentenced to San Quinten State Prison, where he was executed under the California death penalty during the year, 2000. Presently, this facility has been abandoned and this historic jail was saved from demolition under Shasta County Sheriff, Jim Pope. This Shasta County Jail was utilized for forty-five years until the John J. Balma Justice Center was opened on West Street in Redding in 1984.

RESOURCES: 

Chico Weekly Enterprise newspaper of Chico, May 25, 1888

County Seat Expenses - Chico Weekly Enterprise newspaper of Chico, June 15, 1888

Redding Improvements - The Press Democrat newspaper of Oakland, July 24, 1888

Shasta's Courthouse - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Shasta, July 30, 1888

Chico Weekly Enterprise newspaper of Chico, August 10, 1888

Redding Jail Full - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, March 30, 1903

Eating A Courthouse - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, July 21, 1903

Lightning Hit Jail At Redding - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, August 4, 1912

City Jail Real Opium Den, Says Night Guest - The Sacramento Daily newspaper of Sacramento, February 26, 1921

Disapprove Of Redding Jail Accommodations - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, December 10, 1922

1313 New Number of Redding Jail - The Colusa Herald newspaper of Colusa, December 27, 1929

Establish Fund For Shasta Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 7, 1938

Jail Will Be On Northwest Corner Of Lot - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 25, 1938

Contract For New County Jail Building Awarded Friday - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 16, 1938

Ingratitude - Organized Labor newspaper of San Francisco, September 17, 1938

PWA Has Resident Engineer Here - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 24, 1938

New County Jail Equipment Arrives - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 29, 1938

Shasta Picketing Is Resumed - The Madera Tribune newspaper of Madera, March 6, 1939

Spreading Prostitution and Syphilis - The Organized Labor newspaper of San Francisco, June 3, 1939

New Jail Is Now Nearly Ready - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 11, 1939

Occupy Jail Wednesday - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 3, 1939

Sheriff Moves To New Jail Building - October 4, 1939

Move Prisoners To New Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 6, 1939

Phenegar Is Denied Probation By Judge - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 23, 1939

Movie Gallery In County Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 24, 1939

Phenegar To Prison - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 31, 1939

Carr Orders All Prostitutes To Leave Redding At Once - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 2, 1939

Prostitutes Start Exodus - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 4, 1939

Carr Reports Prostitution Houses Closed - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 5, 1939

Work Progresses On County Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 22, 1939

Supervisors Name Panel To Study New Shasta Jail - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 11, 1977

Changing Skyline - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 27, 1982

New Jail Starting To Fall in Place - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, April 16, 1983

VF 364 Shasta County Jails on file at Shasta Historical Society

Three Known Murderers Had North State Victims - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, November 20, 2010

Historic U.S. Route Highway 99: Bailey's Cove Walk And Drive Towards O'Brien Inlet

Here is one section of historic U.S. Route Highway 99 which is usually under the water line of Shasta Lake when this reservoir is full. This portion only comes out of the water when we're in drought, and some of this historic route is still above the water line year round but is an oft-forgotten section of the route by locals who drive it regularly as motorist drive into O'Brien Inlet from Bailey's Cove. Today's water level is: 932.31-feet below full pool elevation. This video was filmed on August 27, 2022.

REDDING’S RECREATION PARK: AND THE AIRSHIP AMERICA DISASTER

Before Recreation Park was constructed in Redding local baseball games were played on the playing field at the Terry Lumber Company yards (formerly the Shasta Lumber Company yards) in Redding. Then on, March 7, 1898, the Daily Free Press newspaper reported the following: "Redding is to have a recreation park and athletic grounds in the near future." Recreation Park was built on the northern end of the city just off present-day Court Street as an outdoor venue to cater to both baseball and soccer games, later additional sports were played here as well. According to my research that I have compiled, Recreation Park was opened to the public eight months later when the Daily Free Press newspaper, of Redding, published this article on November 12, 1898:

"Football Tomorrow

Shasta County and Keswick Will Go Up Against Each Other.

The first football game of the season will be played at Recreation Park tomorrow. It is to be played under association rules between the Keswick and Shasta County teams. While the latter team has a smaller percentage of experienced players, they will no doubt make it interesting for their opponents. Game will be called at 2:30 o' clock by Alfred Seed, who will act as referee. An admission fee of 25 cents is to be charged. The line-up is as follows: Keswick goalkeeper, Rountree, fullbacks Turner and Hooper, halfbacks Campbell and Renwick and G. Bridge, forwards, Macdermid, Maloney and Mudd, forwards, Donahue, Peacock, Wyndham, Creswell, and Garrecht." [SIC] (NOTE: the above article mentions “football” which is “soccer” and is more commonly known as "football" in Great Britain and other countries.)

On November 13, 1898, the Keswick soccer team took the victory against the Redding soccer team called Shasta County. There might be a chance of an earlier grand opening date, that year, but information about it was lacking in the local media outlets which I was browsing through on microfilm. However, the Redding soccer team lost their home game at Recreation Park that day which was witnessed by a sell out crowd of spectators. Later, additional sport teams were established by local athletes in northern California and the teams competed against each other in various sports, here. Town ball was quite popular amongst athletes in baseball, soccer and other sports to represent their home team and community while they played against other towns.

In 1907, the City of Redding's athletes were widely active in local baseball and the city boasted of three different baseball teams which were: Eaton’s Confectionary Team established by Eaton’s Drug Store, the Redding Baseball Club, and the newly established Redding Royal Tigers Baseball Club. Each team made their home on the diamond at Recreation Park, and during the upcoming season in 1908, the club owners of the Redding Royal Tigers Baseball Club shortened their ball club's name to become the Redding Tigers Baseball Club, also known as the Redding Tigers. Only the Redding Tigers still play baseball today utilizing their original 1907 charter as an American Legion baseball ball club, of Redding. They were a celebrated baseball club with an elite roster of players which local spectators enjoyed watching. 

Above: a local baseball game is being played at Recreation Park. Check out the advertisement on the building for the Northern California Winery Company, and Wieland's Beer, in the distance on the roof of the building. Date unknown. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

Above: Gil DeForest of the Redding Tigers Baseball Club running towards home plate at Recreation Park in Redding. Advertising for Northern California Winery Company and Wieland's Beer on the roof of the building. Date unknown. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

Recreation Park was much more to our society than just a local sports venue due to its size and capability of hosting future non-sporting events. Two years later, the City of Redding celebrated our nation's Independence Day, in grand style beginning July 3rd, through July 5th, 1909, with a three day celebration which local historians credit as Redding’s first air show. The biggest feature of this event was a zeppelin called Airship America. This zeppelin was piloted by Captain James Moore, of Los Angeles, this event featured baseball games each day for the public to enjoy, live music by local musicians, dancing performances, food and much more. On July 3, 1909, a baseball game took place which was played between the Redding Tigers and the Montague Baseball Club, of Montague. The Redding Tigers won by a score of 8 to 4 that day.

After the baseball game took place a schedule of fun-filled games and a variety of other festivities occurred in the park. There were many vendors who sold their merchandise as well, and later, Airship America was scheduled to ascend into the air and take flight. It marked the first scheduled lift off for this air craft during the three day celebration. At 4 P.M., Airship America ascended into the air about fifty feet from the ground when it exploded due to a malfunctioned propeller which punctured a hole into the zeppelin’s balloon causing a gas leak which engulfed the airship into ravaging flames after a loud boom echoed throughout the City of Redding in all directions.

Airship America made a crash landing onto the baseball field which immediately caused a chaotic scene below while the spectators watched in shock and disbelief of the tragedy which transpired in front of them. Men, women and children were trampled on by each other inside the park causing various injuries as chaos erupted. The zeppelin was valued at a loss of $5,000. The aviation accident resulted in the deaths of two people, Captain James Moore, and a local resident by the name of Milton Mygatt, Mygatt was a spectator amongst the crowd on the ground. The rest of the three day celebration was immediately cancelled in Redding.

Above: the zeppelin Airship America preparing to ascend from the ground just before lift off at 4 P.M., at Recreation Park on July 3, 1909. There isn’t any advertisement on the building behind the zeppelin as the above photographs show the same building with advertising. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

Above: chaos erupts as Airship America’s propeller malfunction punctures the zeppelin in the air on July 3, 1909, at Recreation Park. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society. 

Above: a chaotic tragedy turned deadly with the result of two deaths, the Airship America disaster on July 3, 1909 at Recreation Park. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

After the Airship America disaster in 1909 the park continued to be utilized for many non-sporting events as well. One newspaper from Sacramento heralded the following Redding aviation history in an article printed on January 7, 1912:

“Makes A Successful Flight In Shasta

Frank Bryant in Curtiss Aeroplane, Encircles Business Section of Redding

(Special To The Union)

Redding, Shasta Co., Jan 6.,  Frank Bryant in a Curtiss standard airship made the first flight ever attempted in California north of Chico in this city today. He rose from Recreation Park at the north end of Redding, encircling the courthouse and entire business and residence section of the city at an elevation of from 600 to 800 feet. Roy Francis also tested his aeroplane on the Recreation Park grounds. Both men will make a flight and race tomorrow afternoon. If the weather is fine a large crowd is expected in this city. Frank H. Robertson a former newspaper man will make the ascent with Francis, having the distinction of being the first citizen of Redding to make the flight in an airship. Bryant and Francis have both promised to take part in the aviation meet planned for the Fourth of July by the business men.” [SIC]

Recreation Park was home of local recreational sports, athletics and additional events for twenty-four years until 1922, a year before the brand-new baseball park called Tiger Field was established. In 1923, the Redding Tigers Baseball Club relocated and played their inaugural season at their new home at Tiger Field. Recreation Park was left abandoned until it was purchased and became private property under different owners. Today, Recreation Park is located at the present-day site of the Shasta Family Y.M.C.A., property in Redding.

Above: the Redding Tigers Baseball Club pose for a team photograph in front of the grand stands at Recreation Park. Date unknown. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

Above: the former site of Recreation Park is now the present-day home of the Shasta Family Y.M.C.A., of Redding at 1155 N. Court Street. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on September 2, 2022.

RESOURCES:

Baseball News - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 14, 1891

A Local Practice Game - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 14, 1891

Base Hits - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 14, 1891

Sportsmen - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 10, 1893

Amusement For New Year - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, December 30, 1893

Football - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 10, 1894

A Recreation Park - The Daily Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 7, 1898

Football Tomorrow - The Daily Free Press newspaper of Redding, November 12, 1898

Keswick Was The Victor - The Daily Free Press newspaper of Redding, November 14, 1898

Football In Coast Cities - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francisco, December 1, 1899

Normals To Play Redding - The Chico Weekly Enterprise, December 29, 1899

Neither Redding Nor Willows Scored - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francisco, January 2, 1900

Normals Vs. Redding - The Chico Weekly Enterprise newspaper of Chico, February 16, 1900

Official Program - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 3, 1909

Many Hurt In Panic When Big Balloon Explodes - The Sacramento Union newspaper of Sacramento, July 4, 1909

Airship Explodes At Redding - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, July 4, 1909

Captain James Moore Killed And Airship Destroyed - July 6, 1909

Redding Wins Series - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 7, 1909

Moore Used Own Name - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 7, 1909

Makes A Successful Flight In Shasta - The Sacramento Union newspaper of Sacramento, January 7, 1912

Birdmen Sour Over Redding - The Sacramento Union newspaper of Sacramento, January 15, 1912

Redding Pleased With Aviators’ Flight - The Sacramento Union newspaper of Sacramento, January 16, 1912