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With this blog, I am bringing to life the stories of the early day pioneers and some of the oft-forgotten history of a bygone era in Shasta County, California. I'll also focus on important events after the turn of the 20th century. I would like to reflect upon current historical sites of the modern age as well.
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Sallee Purchases the Reid Mine at Old Diggings for $20,000 in April of 1906
Above: Last Payment On Mine - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, April 12, 1906
In April of 1906, James Martin Sallee, a native of Florida, and the former owner of the Bully Hill and Rising Star mines in the Pittsburgh Mining District of Shasta County, who the towns of Sallee and South Sallee were named for in which are now situated under the Squaw Creek arm of Shasta Lake at Bully Hill, purchased the Reid Mine in the Old Diggings Mining District at Old Diggings for a total of $20,000. Sallee purchased this mine from its original owners: Edward A. Reid (the namesake of mine), Mrs. Artie J. Reid (Reid's sister-in-law), and John Salnave. Then in 1913, with the help of his son Harvey J. Sallee the father and son team erected the aerial tramway of the Reid mine for more information on this historic aerial tramway please visit my YouTube video below and my article at the following links:
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