The Former Shasta May Blossom Mine and Property (now Abandoned Under Shasta Lake.)

When local prospector and miner Nicholas W. Keith, a native of North Carolina, and a resident of the Sacramento River township, struck the mineral vein of the Shasta May Blossom, in 1900, he discovered that this mineral vein was hosted in a body of shale and rhyolite along with dense limonite which contained a lenticular ore body comprising of the following minerals: gold, silver, and copper. He then christened it as the Shasta May Blossom. The origin of the name is uncertain.

The Shasta May Blossom mine was situated upon First Creek in Sections 14 and 15, Township, 34 North, Range, 3 West, of the Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, near the town of Bully Hill, also known as Delamar and Winthrop, which was practically one mile north of Bully Hill, and inside the mining boundaries of the Pittsburg mining district. Presently, this mine lays abandoned under the water of Shasta Lake upon the Squaw Creek arm. On August 25, 1901, it was reported by the local media that Morton Lindley purchased the Keith copper group of mines, in the Pittsburg mining district from Nicholas W. Keith for an undisclosed amount of money. Included in this transaction was the Shasta May Blossom mine consisting of 300-acres of mineral land, at that time.

Above: a branch office of the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated at Copper City, in Shasta County, California. Circa 1936.

It was Lindley who organized the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, with a branch office of this mining enterprise located in the town of Copper City, as shown above. It's also referred to as the Shasta May Blossom Mining and Smelting Company, in various reports regarding this lucrative mining property. It was the Granite Creek Smelting and Refining Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, who became the parent company of this newly established mining enterprise with an initial capital stock of $10,000.00. 

Lindley formerly resided and mined in Shasta County between the years 1889 and 1892, becoming well acquainted within our region. After his residency in Shasta County, California, he relocated east and became employed with the Granite Creek Smelting and Refining Company as their General Manager in Boston. During November of 1901, the first enhancement work began on this lucrative mining property. A local newspaper described the following events: 

"Three men are now working in the Shasta May Blossom mine near Delamar. The prospect looks fine and is pronounced as being gossan carrying a white quartz. The tunnel is something over 100-feet. Many eyes are upon this property and to almost all miners here, things look mighty good. Morton Lindley is superintendent." 

Above: the main adit of the Shasta May Blossom mine with a wooden portal. Circa 1900-1906.

The above column was the start of this mining enterprise driving an 800-foot incline shaft beneath the Earth’s surface on First Creek to its face. This incline shaft formed two upper tunnels as well as a third lower tunnel which they continued further developments in. Inside the upper tunnel was a ledge of minerals which presented itself to the miners who were extracting the ore from this site along the ribs of the mine, and this same ledge showed in the middle tunnel as well. This mining company continued extracting the ore from it and investigated it further.

The main adit of this mining property, as shown above, is situated on the east slope of the hill at an altitude of 1,250-feet according to record. It measured at 720-feet and thence due north for another 26-feet. Stulls were added along the ribs and backing of the tunnel to keep portions of this mine from collapsing. A method called gobbing, (or in layman terms: stacked rock) existed within the tunnels giving miners extra room inside each tunnel of this mine to work around the loose and major rock they couldn't haul out. At 320-feet from the portal a drift measuring to 120-feet existed. In this drift is an 18-foot vertical winze in which a small lens of ore was discovered to contain gold and silver which was documented by the mining company. A later report mentioned that there was an ore bin on the property and ore tracks as well with ore cars.

County reports also describe a second adit north of the main adit at an altitude of 1,350-feet which once existed, and another called the Porter tunnel, which trends west for 600-feet was actively mined on this mineral land as well. At 250-feet from this adit, a separate portal included a 100-foot raise in its tunnel which connected with the Earth's surface. An ore-shoot inside this mine measuring at 40-feet long and 4 to 6 feet wide existed as well. The raise of this tunnel was assayed once containing 6 percent copper and $8 in gold and silver to the ton. A third former adit was also dug out to 80-feet long containing cuts and a sulfide lens with measurements of 50-feet long and 8-feet wide. The sulfide lens contained the following minerals: pyrite and chalcopyrite.

Above: A map showing Sections 14 and 15, Township, 34 North, Range, 3 West, of the Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, near the town of Bully Hill, in Shasta County, California. Source: Cal Topo.

Morton Lindley was very pleased with the progress of his men at this lucrative mining site on First Creek. On October 9, 1903, the Free Press newspaper of Redding, heralded the following article within their publication stating:

"The first hole to be drilled by the new plant at the Shasta May Blossom mine near the famous Bully Hill mine was sent in Wednesday, and Morton Lindley, the general manager of the May Blossom was present to see the new machinery started up. The big air compressor and diamond drill is operated by the latest improved expansion air engine and the plant works to the entire satisfaction of the management. The force of men are now at work cutting a large tunnel 165 feet below the old workings and expect to encounter in the new tunnel the same big vein that was struck in the upper works. Developemnt thus far on the May Blossom shows the existence of an enormous body of high-grade copper ore, carrying a large percentage of gold. Mr. Lindley was in Redding Thursday and will return to the mine Friday." (SIC)

Early on, miners used lighted candles inside the Shasta May Blossom mine to see their way through their tunnels and to finish the work they needed to get done with. By December of 1903, this lucrative mining property on First Creek obtained its power which was furnished by a large air expansion engine on the property due to the mining enterprise not being able to secure power from the local power company to utilize electricity. Under Lindley's command newer adits were formed totaling to 2,000-feet upon the property with open cuts which existed by 1908, however, its production stopped that year, due to the discovery of chalcopyrite inside the mine forcing its production of ore to stop.

Above: the lucrative mining property of the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated is shown here on First Creek. According to records this mining enterprise produced $1,000,000 in mineral production during their first five months of operation under Morton A. Lindley's lead. Later on, it was estimated that this mining enterprise was producing between $6,000 to $10,000 daily by the time this photo was taken. The Bully Hill smelter appears in the background. Date unknown. Source: California State Archives.

After a three-year closure the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated reopened their lucrative mine upon First Creek in 1911, with a force of men numbered at 20, under the command of Superintendent, William Wright. They resumed hard rock mining once again while extracting gold, silver and copper from this mining property. On the outside of the Earth’s surface prospectors conducted probing activities in hopes of a striking additional veins for further development as well. Due to the start of the first World War on July 28, 1914, this company shut down all mining operations and became idled during the interim of the war years. During it’s closure at this mining property, it was guarded by a watchman named Benton A. Graham who was a resident, of Bully Hill, Graham was employed by its energetic owner Morton Lindley. 

Four years later, the first World War ended on November 18, 1918, and the mining company returned their attention to this mining site that year. A change of ownership occurred in 1919, from Morton Lindley to J.B. Hughes, a resident of Winthrop, becoming the owner of this mining company. At that time, it was Shasta County Sheriff James L. Richardson and H.B. Ward, who made it difficult for the company to continue their mining production on this mining site due to Richardson and Ward who purportedly claimed to have purchased shares of stock within this mining company. Together they placed this property through litigation in court which was brought to suit by it’s rightful owner J.B. Hughes for a judgement of over $3,000 in the Superior Court of Shasta County, and to recover some of this mining property near Bully Hill from them which they claimed to own.

Then on, April 10, 1920, the mining case of the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated Vs., James L. Richardson and H.B. Ward was settled as shown in the following column from a local media outlet.  Richardson and Ward lost and J.B. Hughes won. See below...

Above: the Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 10, 1920.

In July of 1920 the mining property changed hands again to its new owner Albert J. Pickett. Then on, September 9, 1920, the new owner located six brand-new mining claims in the Pittsburg mining district on the Shasta May Blossom mining property called the Shasta May Blossom Numbers: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, South Extensions which were immediately recorded with the county recorder's office that day at Redding, which added to the lucrative mining claims on the property. 

The Shasta May Copper Company Consolidated brought in powerful diamond drills and sunk a hole to a depth of 170-feet, while continuing it’s ore production here. New core samples were extracted and assayed as well during this time period. Another tunnel on the property called the Porter tunnel was also placed into production. Sporadic mining activities took place after March 1921, due to legal battles within the Supreme Court, over the mining property. 

Most records were not preserved by this mining company. Eventually, their mining property grew larger in 1923, with George G. Dean locating 29 brand-new mining claims for Albert J. Pickett for the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated as shown below:

Above: the Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 30, 1923.

Apparently, the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated passed into the ownership of Albert J. Pickett who filed a million-dollar lawsuit against the former owner, J.B. Hughes in the Shasta County Superior Court due to Pickett having to relocate several or more missing mining claims within in this lucrative mining property, which were either purportedly destroyed or plugged by Hughes and his employees. For years this mineral land was held up in litigation by the court system from further production until a new owner took control. 

The mine changed ownership again about 1926 to J.W. Marshall. Work resumed on the property by the company’s guard Benton A. Graham who completed work for Marshall at this mining property which was recorded in proof of labor reports filed with the county recorder's office at Redding, which Graham contributed for his employer as well. 

By 1927, Benton A. Graham was still employed with the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated as their watchman according to local media reports. Sporadic mining was completed upon this mining property by Graham. By the start of World War II on September 1, 1939, it was forced to close down again due to our country being at war. This lucrative mine’s demise was due to the construction of Shasta Dam between the years 1938 and 1945. In 1942, the United States Bureau of Reclamation began flooding the newly established reservoir for Shasta Lake, World War II ended on September 2, 1945, and this mining property currently remains under water to this day.

Resources:

1900 U.S. Census

Morton Lindley Gets Keith Copper Group - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 23, 1901

Boston Men Bond Keith Group - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, August 24, 1901

The Shasta May Blossom - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, November 1, 1901

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, November 25, 1901

Shasta May Blossom Like the Bully Hill - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 1, 1902

After More Mines About Bully Hill - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, May 8, 1902

Work at the Shasta May Blossom– The Daily Free Press, Thursday, July 24, 1902

Aubury, Lewis E. The copper resources of California: California Mining Bureau Bulletin 23: 65. , 1902

How Copper Is Produced in Shasta County, Northern California, published by the Shasta May Blossom Copper Company Consolidated by the Standard Investment Company of San Francisco, California. Copyright 1902.

State Treasurer Visits Mines - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 25, 1903

First Hole Drilled on May Blossom - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 9, 1903

Preparing For Extensive Work - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, December 30, 1903

Robert McDermott Dead - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, March 27, 1909

The geology and ore deposits of the Bully Hill mining district, California by A.C. Boye. Am. Inst. Mining Engineers Bull. 85, p. 57-105. Copyright 1914.

Morton Lindley, Who Opened the Mammoth Mine in Shasta County, Dies in San Francisco - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, April 23, 1915

Attached the Shasta May Blossom Mine - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, July 8, 1916

Shasta May Blossom Mine Is a Shasta County Daisy - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 2, 1917

Mines and Mineral Resources of Shasta County, Siskiyou County, and Trinity County, by G. Chester Brown, ©1915 published by California State Printing Office.

Notice of Sale of Real Property Under Execution - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, December 12, 1919

Coroner Larkin Made Sheriff - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, December 21, 1919

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 1, 1920

Forbidden to Sell Shasta May Blossom - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 21, 1920

Mining Claim Suit to Begin All Over Thru Restraining Order - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, March 23, 1920

Mining Case Settled - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 10, 1920

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, April 15, 1920

Locates Nine Mines - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, July 30, 1920

More Blossoms - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, September 9, 1920

Million Dollar Suit Is Filed - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 28, 1923

Mining Man Dies from Fall - The Blue Lake Advocate newspaper of Blue Lake, April 19, 1924.

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, September 27, 1924

Files Twenty-Nine Location Notices - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 30, 1930

On Shasta May Blossom - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, July 1, 1926

The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, May 5, 1927

Mines and Mineral Resources of Shasta County, California – County Report 6 – by Philip A. Lydon and J.C. O’ Brien ©1974 by California Division of Mines and Geology

Shasta May Blossom – Western Mining History

Shasta May Blossom Prospect Near Ingot, California | The Diggings™

Shasta May Blossom prospect (Keith group), Bully Hill, Bully Hill District (Winthrop District), East Shasta Copper - Zinc Mining District, Klamath Mountains, Shasta County, California, USA

OFT FORGOTTEN PLACES IN SHASTA COUNTY (PART II)

This is the second installment of oft forgotten places in Shasta County, in this edition we will continue to examine the lesser-known localities that formerly existed in our region.

An agricultural community called Alfa which was named after the settlement's primary crop was situated eight miles north and west of the town of Swazey, (now Glenburn), in Fall River Valley. According to records it was the United States Postal Service headquarters in Washington D.C., that appointed Alexander C. Hill, a local farmer, and native of North Carolina, to be its first postmaster on March 14, 1888. Hill served as its only postmaster until July 11, 1896, when its post office was discontinued, and the mail was rerouted to the Dana United States Post Office that same day, in the town of Dana.

Alfa had a large population in town and in nearby settlements to have a newspaper established there called the Alpha Advance, which was established in April of 1888. This local media outlet first started heralding local news blurbs from Alpha in the Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding that month. It was a regular feature, until the January 5, 1889, edition of the Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding printed the following column:

"The Alfa Advance will be an "all at home" printed paper with Claude McDermit, as editor, vice H.J. Richmond, resigned."

Alexander C. Hill, and his wife Isabelle, had four children and they remained in the area after the closure of the Alfa United States Post Office. Alexander C. Hill died two years after the post office closed on June 2, 1898. His wife Isabelle succeeded him in death, and she died on December 9, 1904, she is buried in the Dana Cemetery.

Brewster was another small community which came to fruition eight miles south of Dunsmuir, and located in Shasta County, California. A United States Post Office was established there in 1893 with Alexander Levy, as the first postmaster. It was said that Levy named the community Brewster after a geological surveyor named William H. Brewster who previously visited the locality. This town site lasted until 1895 when it was discontinued. 

Chromite was another small settlement which was located in the Sacramento River Canyon by local miners who located this black mineral ore nearby. In 1907 this mineral was being mined at the base of Castle Crags. Chromite's lustre is comprised of greasy, metallic, sub-met, and is part of the isometric crystal system. Chromite is utilized as a refractory in the production of steel, copper, glass and cement.

The settlement was located south of Sims and gave its name to the Chromite Spur near Hazel Creek when the miners started loading the cars on the track with this mineral. The settlement was active about 1889 through 1907.

Located five miles southwest of Redding was the community of Dolde which was settled in 1890. It was named after their first postmaster Arnold C. Dolde, a local merchant in the area. In April of 1893, this United States Post Office was discontinued due to its last postmaster C.H. Manning resigning and being appointed as postmaster at Fall River Mills, in eastern Shasta County, California. Today, nothing remains of this former townsite. 

Above: the townsite of Jillsonville, in Shasta County, California. Circa 1912.

Courtesy of Steven Walker.

It was Franklin W. Wheeler who located the vein of the Gladstone mine in Cline Gulch, near the town of French Gulch in 1886. The main producer of ore from this mine was the Ohio mine. It became the second largest producer of gold in French Gulch which rivaled the towns lucrative Washington mine. In 1912, the town of Jillsonville came to fruition on this mineral land even though it lacked a United States Post Office it began utilizing the French Gulch United States Post Office to send and receive mail. At the time it was owned by the Hazel Gold Mining Company, which was owned and operated by Issac O. Jillson, an energetic miner and prospector, who the townsite was named for.

By order of the above mining company the townsite was meant for married couples and families as ordered by the Hazel Gold Mining Company. Single men had to live in the bunkhouse on the mining property. The company erected a 23-room bunkhouse on the property for single men, a schoolhouse, a hospital, a dance hall and an electric railroad on the property. Jillsonville was active into the 1920's. What remains of this ghost town today are a few remaining foundations, tracks, rock walls with lots of artifacts from broken bottles to pottery and broken pipes with additional items lodged in the ground that we were able to preserve. When I was employed with the Shasta Historical Society in 2015, we took part in an archaeological dig and study on the property, with the present property owner, and the above items were found by us.

Above, the townsite of Little Italy, in Shasta County, California in 1916. Little Italy can be described as a hillside locality. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

Established in 1900, and situated near the booming town of Kennett and upon the main road to the Mammoth mine and smelter was the town site of Little Italy. It was named for its large Italian population; it was also known Dago Town. "Dago Town" was a derogatory term to describe the Italian population within the community which wasn’t favored by local residents. Little Italy never had its own post office it used the Kennett United States Post Office to send and receive mail. This was quite common for smaller towns in California to use the nearest post office close to them. Kennett was established as a town in 1884 by the Central Pacific Railroad.

Little Italy was located near the Mammoth mine and smelter site which was owned by the Mammoth Copper Mining Company at Kennett. Little Italy boasted a number of saloons, a bank, and a hotel. One of its most enterprising people in town was Antonio Carattini who spearheaded the bank and owned a large interest of property there. He was also the energetic owner of the Mt. Shasta Hotel and a local restaurant. Due to this community an Italian newspaper was established at Kennett by Marco E. Arrighini that was called the Italian-American newspaper which local residents of Little Italy subscribed to. The children of the Little Italy townsite attended school at the Kennett School in Kennett as they walked there each day

In December of 1904 another townsite which spung up, in Shasta County, was located three-quarters of a mile south of Kennett and was called Bernhard. The town of Bernhard was established by Bernhard Golinsky, a native of Germany (he named the town for himself) and was located near Squaw Creek on the road past the Mammoth Hospital in Kennett. His family owned the Golinsky Hotel and Bernhard Golinsky served as postmaster of Kennett for a short time. Bernhard was laid out into the following streets: Bernhard Street, Flosa Street, Frieda Street, Lloyd Street, Reta Street, and Rubie Street. The first recorded birth in the town of Bernhard was a boy who was born to Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Woodward on August 31, 1905. 

Like Little Italy, Bernhard also used the Kennett United States Post Office to send and receive mail. At a later date both townsites Little Italy and Bernhard were “unofficially” annexed into Kennett. On June 3, 1915, Little Italy suffered a $30,000, fire in the heart of the townsite. The major losers were Marco E. Arrighini and Antonio Carrattini. The fires origin was never determined but it ignited in the Bella Vista hotel, a three-story hotel which was erected in 1905 at a cost of $10,000, by Benghi, Franchetti, and Perez.  It was later abandoned and sold at a Sheriffs sale for $500 to Giacoso and Belloni, who turned the empty building into a local warehouse and utilized its basement as a stable where two horses were burned to death in this fire.

Additional buildings were also burned to the ground. Total losses were: Carrattini, $15,000, amount of insurance, $9,000 Arrighini, $5,000, insurance $2,500, Giacoso and Belloni, $3,000, and additional owners, $2,000, for the additional owners their insurance wasn't noted for them, the townsite never rebuilt the buildings they lost after this fire. Little Italy and Bernhard's demise was the fall of the town of Kennett which was later incorporated as a city in 1911 and then the city became unincorporated in 1930 and lost its post office in 1942. The Kennett United States Post Office closed due to the construction of Shasta Dam, between 1938-1945. The impact that the dam had on the city was catastrophic. Bernhard, Little Italy and Kennett now lie under water in the deepest part of Shasta Lake.

Above: the official map of the townsite of Bernhard is shown which was surveyed by Alf Baltzell, on December 16, 1904.

Above: Homer Whiting Loomis (1817-1882).  

Loomis was a settlement which was first settled in 1859 by a Canadian settler named Homer Whiting Loomis, a pioneer who arrived in Shasta County, California, during the 1850s. He originally bought land on the east side of Stillwater Creek near present-day Loomis Corners, and erected a house there for him to reside in. This is where Loomis farmed planting wheat, barley and hay. He also raised cows and hogs on his property. 

 

During 1861, he purchased land on the opposite side of Stillwater Creek to enlarge his property. This is where Homer established an inn which included a stagecoach stopping place which did a remarkable business in the area with the California-Oregon Trail crossing there. On April 11, 1878, the United States Postal Service headquarters in Washington D.C., established a post office called Loomis in honor of Homer W. Loomis and they appointed Loomis as its first postmaster.  However, Loomis suggested the name Pine Grove, but the name was denied by the United States Postal Service.

The suggestion of the name Pine Grove to be used for the post office came from the local school in the area which was established in 1875 as the Pine Grove Schoolhouse. The United States Postal Service discontinued the post office at Loomis on May 14, 1879.  The post office was located inside his stopping place on what is now present-day, Old Alturas Road. 

In 1882, Leon Leighton was teaching school at Loomis and purchased Homer Whiting Loomis’s property from him before Loomis died on May 26, 1882. Years later, another United States Post Office was established in the former townsite by the United States Postal Service headquarters in Washington D.C., called Leighton after Leon Leighton. The United States Postal Service appointed Samuel W. Stallings to serve as the first postmaster here on June 3, 1889, according to official records, he was later succeeded by Laura Bermerly, on September 22, 1890, and she was succeeded as postmaster by Ida M. Leighton, on January 22, 1891, Leighton was succeeded as postmaster by John L. Hensel, on June 16, 1893. 

According to official records Hensel was the last and final postmaster of this United States Post Office, which was discontinued February 5, 1894, with the mail being rerouted to Redding. The former town of Loomis also known as Leighton is still referred to by many people as Loomis Corner’s.

Above: Homer Whiting Loomis erected this residence on the situated on the east side of Stillwater Creek. This building no longer exists. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

Lisbon was a small settlement which was located south of Castella, in the Sacramento River Canyon, which had a United States Post Office established there on January 26, 1886. This townsite boasted a population of 15 people. Their first and only postmaster was Henry W. Walbridge who held the position until November 3, 1886, when the mail was rerouted to Bayles (now Delta). 

Records indicate that Scobieville was practically a townsite on wheels. It was located on the line of the railroad from Redding to Dunsmuir which relocated along the rail line between the years 1882 and 1887. It was named for Colonel James Ross Scobie, a native of Scotland, who was Superintendent of the masonry construction for the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Above: James Ross Scobie (1835-1902), the namesake of Scobieville. Later he followed the trade of a Stonemason, and afterwards became a Contractor for Stone Masonry work, principally for the Southern Pacific Company. Courtesy of California State Archives. 

John L. Zinn, a native of Virginia was a shoemaker, prospector and miner by trade who settled in Township Number 5 in 1880 with his wife Cathan and their family. By 1886 the Zinn family was living at Buckeye, and he eventually relocated his family to the Viola area in eastern Shasta County, California. About 1888, the settlement of Zinn came to fruition in that that region with Zinn selling town lots and newcomers buying them to settle there. During the following year, the United States Postal Service headquarters in Washington D.C., established a post office there on August 24, 1889, and appointed John L. Zinn as its first postmaster.

Eventually, Homer M. Maxwell succeeded Zinn as the town's postmaster on February 3, 1890, and Maxwell witnessed the decline of the townsite with the mail route eventually being rerouted to the Shingletown United States Post Office on April 25, 1890, and on that same day, the Zinn United States Post Office was discontinued. Can you imagine yourself living in some of these localities today if they had successfully worked out?

RESOURCES:

Board of Equalization - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, September 6, 1862

The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, October 28, 1871

1880 U.S. Census

News From the Railroad Front - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 29, 1883

J.W. Malone’s Letter - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 27, 1883

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, November 3, 1883

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, November 10, 1883

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, December 8, 1883

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 5, 1884

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 12, 1884

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 2, 1884

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, May 17, 1884

Sims Items - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 27, 1889

The Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 22, 1893

A Runaway - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, November 1, 1898

California U.S. Voter Registration 1886

California U.S. Voter Registration 1892

California U.S. Voter Registration 1896

The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 5, 1889

Postmaster Appointed - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, February 4, 1890

Freight Wrecked at Chromite Spur -The Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 24, 1900

Chrome Mine Case Raises Novel Point - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 6, 1901

A Derailed Box Car Causes Long Delay - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 13, 1902

Platinum in Shasta County - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 14, 1903

Smelter Town of Kennett is Growing - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, December 2, 1904

Bernhard Will Be Towns Name - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, December 6, 1904

Balaklala Smelter to Be Located on the Bernhard Townsite - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 7, 1905

Lots for Sale - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 10, 1905

The Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 16, 1905

Cottages at Bernhard - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 2, 1905

Bernhard Houses Being Rushed Along - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 11, 1905

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, September 5, 1905

Chromite Mined at the Base of Castle Crags - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 8, 1907

Three Cornered Fight in Kennett - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, June 20, 1910

Held On Serious Charge - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento - July 17, 1910

Kennett Merchant Makes Assignment - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, June 19, 1912

Bought Keswick Property - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, May 26, 1915

Kennett Had A $30,000 Fire in Little Italy - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, June 4, 1915

A. Carattini Is Called Beyond by Pneumonia - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 19, 1918 

Three More Pneumonia Victims in Kennett - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, October 20, 1918

Carattini Goes to Final Resting Place Monday - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, October 22, 1918

Arrighini Sells to His Partner - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, October 7, 1921

Marco E. Arrighini Pioneer Resident of Shasta County, Dies at Age 73 - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, April 23, 1930

Place Names of Shasta County by Gertrude A. Steger revision by Helen Hinckley Jones, ©1966 by La Siesta Press, Glendale, California

U.S., Appointments of U.S. Postmasters, 1832-1971

French Gulch: miners went away - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, August 10, 1983

Park Sought for Old Mine - Written by Kibkabe Araya. The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 9, 2011

Gold & Lore: Kennett was once a thriving city, competing with Redding for prominence - Written by Jeremy Tuggle. The Redding Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, June 22, 2016

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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OLD DIGGINGS ALSO KNOWN AS HART: A MINING COMMUNITY

Source: Last Payment on Mine - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, April 12, 1906

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.

SHASTA LAKE DROUGHT: CAMPBELL'S TROUT EGG COLLECTING STATION (A HISTORIC SITE)

As Shasta Lake continues to be in drought there are many oft-forgotten relics and historical sites which keep emerging from the depths of this lake. On the McCloud River arm of this lake is a historic site pertaining to Ellery Creek. At this location the remains of a rock or stone structured building is visible which was operated by Shasta County pioneer and fish expert Jeremiah Blizzard Campbell, a native of New Jersey, and his son, Joseph Campbell which was built in the early twentieth century. This site was a fish egg collecting station for trout and they would eventually store these eggs in their incubators in this building until they hatched. Find out more about the area and about the Campbell's in my newest video to date. This video was filmed on location at that point on May 28, 2022. On that day the water level for Lake Shasta was 120.61-ft., below the crest of Shasta Dam or at 946.39-ft., elevation below full pool. 

RESOURCES:

1870 U.S. Census

Domesticated Trout. How To Breed and Grow Them by Dr. Livingston Stone. Published by James R Osgood, Boston ©1873, pages 347. 

McCloud River Salmon Fishery - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, December 4, 1875

McCloud River Salmon Fishery - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, December 11, 1875

California Pisciculture - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, January 13, 1877

1880 U.S. Census

Pisciculture - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, June 29, 1889

1900 U.S. Census

Anglers Are Enjoying Fair Trout Fishing - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francisco, April 27, 1901

Trout Eggs Desired By The Germans - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francsico, December 15, 1907

1910 U.S. Census

1920 U.S. Census

Find A Grave Memorial: Jeremiah Blizzard Campbell (1826-1910) (Disclaimer: Jeremiah B. Campbell appears on the 1920 U.S. Census as Jerry B. Campbell. He did not die in 1910.)

Historical Notes on The Rainbow and Dolly Varden Trout written by J.H. Wales, The Covered Wagon, 1946, pages 29-30. 46 pages. Published annually by Shasta Historical Society.

Shasta County, California A History, by Rosena Giles, published by Biobooks, ©1949.

Place Names of Shasta County by Gertrude A. Steger revision by Helen Hinckley Jones, ©1966 by La Siesta Press, Glendale, California

Baird written by Alice L. Seamans, The Covered Wagon 1976, pages 7-10. 82 pages. Published annually by Shasta Historical Society.

Memories of Baird written by Eleanor (Reading) Templeman, The Covered Wagon, 1976. pages 10-11. 82 pages. Published annually by Shasta Historical Society.

Occasional Paper of the Redding Museum - Paper No. 1 by Margaret Guilford-Kardel. Published by Redding Museum of Art & History Center, Redding, California. Available at the Shasta Historical Society.

May H. Southern’s scrapbook’s. Nine binders. Unpublished personal and researched material compiled by Southern. Available at Shasta Historical Society. 

Livingston Stone, Pioneer Fisheries Scientist written by Frank E. Raymond, The Covered Wagon, 1991. Pages 17-27. 104 pages. Published annually by the Shasta Historical Society.

History Of The McCloud River Rainbow Trout | mtshasta.com - Outfitter & Actor - Jack Trout's Blog

SHASTA LAKE DROUGHT: TOWN CREEK DAM AT BULLY HILL AND AN ARIAL ORE CAR TRAMWAY

Filmed on location on April 30, 2022.

The town of Delamar was established in the area in June of 1900, as for the Town Creek Dam I'm not positively sure on dates of construction but my estimate would be about 1907 to 1910 era due to the construction of the Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railroad which is associated with this small concrete dam. Construction on this railroad began December 11, 1906, and the Sacramento Valley And Eastern Railroad was incorporated on January 8, 1907, the purpose of the S.V. & E.R., was to conduct a 15 mile standard gauge, ore, delivery, and passenger train from Bonita 3 miles north of Kennett to the Bully Hill smelter at Delamar. It was completed in 1908 and operated until 1939, due to the flooding of Shasta Lake for Shasta Dam.

This railroad is the same railroad as seen in my previous YouTube video available here: 

Above: This video was filmed on 7-9-2021!

This video was filmed on location on April 30, 2022, the water level for Shasta Lake on that day was 945.62-feet elevation wise below full pool or 121.38-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam. My resources for this video are located here:

Resources:

Goes With The Bully Hill – The Daily Free Press, July 14, 1899

The Bully Hill Deal – The Daily Free Press, July 14, 1899

Deed To Bully Hill Mines Files For Record Today - The Daily Free Press, July 18, 1899

The Daily Free Press, Tuesday, July 18, 1899

Where The Smelter Will Be Located  – The Daily Free Press, July 19, 1899

Copper City Gets De Lamar Smelter  – The Daily Free Press, March 12, 1900

A Combination Smelter  – The Daily Free Press, July 20, 1899

Mines And Mining News – The Daily Free Press, July 20, 1899

Mines About Bully Hill – The Daily Free Press, July 21, 1899

The De Lamar Smelters A Sure Go  – The Daily Free Press, March 19, 1900

The New Smelter Town – The Daily Free Press, March 20, 1900

The Daily Free Press, March 21, 1900

In Pioneer Days – THE SHASTA COURIER, March 24, 1900

The Shasta Courier – March 24, 1900

Delamar And Sallee Show Rapid Growth - The Daily Free Press, March 26, 1901

Kennet-Delamar Road Files Papers - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 8, 1907

Incorporates To Build Railroad To Delamar - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 9, 1907

A New Station Called Pitt - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 5, 1907

Contract Let For Building The Railroad - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 9, 1907

Railroad Work Near Delamar - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, November 6, 1907

Railway To Electric Smelter - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francisco, December 15, 1907

First Load Of Freight - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francisco, December 16, 1907

Bully Hill Smelter Has Been Remodeled - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, December 24, 1907

Railroad Completed As Far As Horse Creek - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, February 4, 1908

Tracks Laid Into Delamar - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, February 20, 1908

Round Trip Between Delamar and Redding - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 26, 1908

The Smelter Town Has Three Names - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, September 10, 1908

Sacramento Valley And Eastern Railroad Shows Profit - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, June 29, 1922

My Playhouse Was A Concord Coach, an anthology of newspaper clippings and documents relating to those who made California history during the years 1822-1888, by Mae Hélène Bacon Boggs. Published by Howell-North Press ©1942

Shasta County, California A History by Rosena Giles, published by Biobooks, ©1949.

Place Names of Shasta County by Gertrude A. Steger revision by Helen Hinckley Jones, ©1966 by La Siesta Press, Glendale, California

Mines and Mineral Resources of Shasta County, California – County Report 6 – by Philip A. Lydon and J.C. O’ Brien ©1974 by California Division of Mines and Geology

Above: Town Creek Dam at Town Creek at Bully Hill on the Squaw Creek arm of Shasta Lake. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on April 30, 2022.

POLLOCK; A FORMER TOWNSITE ON THE SACRAMENTO RIVER ARM OF SHASTA LAKE

The historic Pollock bridge above the Sacramento River in 1936 with the town of Pollock in the distance on the north-east side of the Pollock bridge. From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.

Above: where Pollock should be at the mouth of Salt Creek on the Sacramento River arm at 115.20-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam. Time to compare the ridge line of the mountains in the background with the first picture. This photo was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on June 11, 2021.

Above: a 1915-1945 map which predates the establishment of the townsite of Pollock at the junction of Salt Creek and the Sacramento River. This map shows the former alignment of the Central Pacific Railroad which was later acquired by Southern Pacific Railroad. It shows what was known as the Shasta Route on this map at that location. Source: CalTopo.

Pollock was formerly located along U.S. Route Highway 99 at the junction of Salt Creek and the Sacramento River. Today, Pollock is located just opposite of Sugarloaf Resort and Antler’s Marina on the Sacramento River arm at the mouth of Salt Creek under Lake Shasta. Construction on U.S. Route Highway 99 (also known as the Pacific Highway) began in California in 1914 and it was finished in 1922. During the interim years, a man named George G. Pollock, a native of Indiana, and a general contractor owned and operated the Pollock Construction Company, of Sacramento, which was awarded a contract from the California State Highway Commission in 1916 to construct a bridge which would span the Sacramento River at this location. The bridge was open for auto travel in February of 1917.

Later, a fire broke out on August 11, 1921, at Pollock “...which destroyed seven outfit cars sidetracked there, found that it was due to hoboes entering one of the cars and building a fire for cooking or keeping warm, and failure to extinguish it entirely when leaving.” (SIC) As Pollock was emerging into becoming a permanent fixture along the new highway, north state locals Davis & Robinson obtained a permit from the local railroad commission to operate an automobile passenger stage line from Redding to Sisson (now Mount Shasta City) in Siskiyou County. Along the route this stage line conveyed passengers to Pollock, Delta, La Moine, Hazel Creek, Castella and Dunsmuir. It promised weary travelers fast traveling times at cheap rates. 

It was Redding resident Chris Kutras who purchased eighty acres on the east side of the Sacramento River near the highway bridge from landowner Mrs. N.S. Stillson on February 17, 1922. Kutras promised that this transaction would include the erection of a general grocery store, combination post office and service station building to be leased to H.L. Scott. Scott was slated to be the first postmaster of this U.S. Post Office, but he was bypassed by the officials in Washington D.C., for unknown reasons. 

Then, on January 5, 1924, John Steinaker became the first postmaster of the brand-new United States Post Office at Pollock. The Pollock United States Post Office was established by the United States Postal Service in Washington D.C., and they named the post office after George G. Pollock. It was a fourth-class post office which served about 30 families residing at Pollock. However, Steinaker had leased his store’s building from Kutras, and it was in operation before July of 1923 without the post office, which began serving the area on January 5, 1924. 

Above: a 1939 mineral deposit map of Shasta County surveyed by Charles V. Averill showing Pollock and the railroad.

Above: the combined Pollock Grocery Store, Post Office & Service Station at Pollock owned by Chris Kutras and leased to John Steinaker on the Sacramento River at Salt Creek. Date unknown. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

Above: originally labeled as the Pollack Auto Camp. This is the Pollock Auto Camp at Pollock on the Sacramento River at Salt Creek. Date unknown. Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society.

As early as April of 1925, talk of a dam being built in the Sacramento River Canyon was already mentioned in statewide media coverage, and the Healdsburg Tribune of Healdsburg, reported the following about submerging the town of Pollock within in the future reservoir of what would become Shasta Lake by the construction of this dam in the following article:

"Would Create Lake In Shasta County

SACRAMENTO, April 10.- A dam in the Sacramento River canyon at the proposed Kennett site would submerge the towns of Kennett, Antler, Copper City and Pollock, twenty miles of the main line of the Southern Pacific, nine miles of the stale highway, two smelters, one mine and the state fish hatchery on the McCloud River. These consequences of the backing up of water in the Sacramento and Pit Rivers for thirty-two miles with a 400-foot dam are discussed by Paul Bailey, engineer who is making the survey of the state’s water resources begun in 1921, in his supplemental report on the work to date made to the present legislature."

Six years later, a brush fire erupted into flames two miles south of the town of Pollock in April of 1932 on the Kobe farm which resulted in the death of resident Mathew Kobe, age seventy-two, a native of Austria, and a local farmer. He had been fighting the fire when his trousers got caught in the flames and he jumped into Salt Creek to extinguish them. The flames caused serious burns upon his body, and in time, those burns were fatal to him. Kobe died on April 18, 1932, the decedent was survived by his wife, four sons and one daughter. The fire grew to two acres with no structure damage.

Beginning May 1st, of each year swimming at Salt Creek kicked off and even during the summer months Pollock residents were able to cool off in the creek which flowed year round. It would rise during rain storms. Much like today, even the local wildlife shared the running water of Salt Creek with their human neighbors.

Above: an article about Pollock happenings from the Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, dated: May 1, 1935, Pollock was a lively place along the Pacific Highway during the decade of the 1930s.

The town of Pollock was flooded during the historic Sacramento River flood of February 28, 1940, with winter storms flooding the river at that location, as Pollock got its first taste of being submerged in water. The flooding caused the Pollock bridge to be under six feet of water and at Woolman's store. The City of Redding was isolated in all directions which saw the traffic and the railroad trains stopped in all directions until the routes were passable a week later when the flood water lowered.

Four years later, on June 1, 1944, the Pollock United States post office was discontinued with Sarah Ann Moody being the last postmistress. Then it’s post office was relocated. The name of this United States post office was changed to Loftus in honor of Charles Loftus, a grandson of Mrs. Stella Woolman. The reason the Pollock United States post off was discontinued was due to the construction of Shasta Dam which threatened with submerging the town site into the reservoir of Shasta Lake (or Lake Shasta). Pollock would eventually become under the main water mark of the reservoir at full pool 1,067-feet elevation or distance from crest of Shasta Dam at 0-feet, with its 365 miles of shoreline. Lake Shasta began flooding its reservoir in 1942. Shasta Dam was engineered by Frank T. Crowe the owner of Pacific Constructors Incorporated, and construction began in 1938 and its construction was completed in 1945.

The Pollock townsite has surfaced during the drought years of 1976, 1977, 1991, 2008 and 2021 with portions of historic U.S. Route Highway 99 surfacing and the railroad of the Central Pacific built in 1884 and later acquired by the Southern Pacific Railroad this railroad was also known as the Shasta Route and traversed on the westside of the Sacramento River at Pollock. During these years, local Pollock relics included a 1916 cut and grade and a highway masonry wall with minimal foundations. The Pollock bridge is fully out of the water at 166.87-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam; and in the 1990's the resort that owned the bridge cut the bridge in half and repositioned it at an angle so they could start launching boats off of it during drought years, so not all of the bridge is intact. The Sacramento River arm at this location has changed drastically over the years. On July 11, 2021, the historic Pollock bridge began emerging out of the water at Lake Shasta for the first time in seven years at 131.15-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam. 

POLLOCK POSTMASTERS:

John Steinaker - January 5, 1924

Mrs. Stella Klineschmidt - acting P.M. June 7, 1926, appointed June 10, 1926

Mrs. Stella Woolman (formerly Klineschmidt) - July 23, 1930

Mrs. Florence Mason - November 16, 1940

Mrs. Hazel N. Collins - April 23, 1942

Mrs. Sarah Ann Moody - December 1, 1942

Mrs. Sarah Ann Moody - June 1, 1943 - June 1, 1944.

Above: on top of the 1916 cut and grade (which is used for vehicle parking) on the north side of the Pollock bridge at Antler's Marina with historic U.S. Highway Route 99 below me. The Lake Shasta water level was 135.00-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam. This video was filmed on location July 16, 2021.

Above: at 148.45-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam the historic Highway Masonry Wall on Historic Route Highway 99 at Salt Creek is FULLY OUT of the water. This is at Pollock. A lot of Pollock history is discussed in this film. Filmed on location August 6, 2021.

Above: Portions of the historic railroad at Pollock surfacing out of the water at Shasta Lake. This is the railroad just north of the historic Pollock bridge. This video was filmed on location, September 4, 2021.  

Above: the end of the Pollock bridge. The Pollock bridge is now full out of the water on 9-10-2021 at 900.13-feet elevation wise or 166.87-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle.

Above: Jeremy Tuggle discovers a foundation of a building possibly connected to the Shasta Route Railroad at Pollock, just north of the historic Pollock bridge, at 891.58-feet elevation wise below full pool or 175.42-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam. Filmed on location on October 2, 2021 in Lakehead, California.

(Note: this article was featured in the  October 2021, Shasta Historical Society Stagecoach newsletter, page 9, written by Jeremy Tuggle for the Shasta Historical Society.)

RESOURCES: 

Canyon Roads Open For Automobiles - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 16, 1917

Sacramento Canyon Open To Auto Travel - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, February 16, 1917

Road From Redding To Dunsmuir Finished - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, February 18, 1917

Marin Journal newspaper of San Rafael, April 12, 1917

1920 U.S. Census

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 4, 1921

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, August 21, 1921

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, September 27, 1921

Stage Permit Granted - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, September 28, 1921

Pollock Will Have Post Office Store - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 17, 1922

Chris Kutras Buys 80 At Pollock - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 17, 1922

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, July 19, 1922

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, April 7, 1923

Automobile Truck Had Five Million In Gold As Cargo - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, May 29, 1923

Pollock Wants To Have A Post Office - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, June 23, 1923

For Pollock - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, July 10, 1923

Kennett-Pollock Road May Get State Money To Be Used As Detour - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 22, 1924

Would Create Lake In Shasta County - The Healdsburg Tribune of Healdsburg, April 10, 1925

Former Pollock Merchant Asks Divorce - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, June 10, 1925

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 20, 1925

Folks You Know - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 23, 1932

Personal - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 9, 1932

Pollock Man's Death Blamed On Trousers - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 18, 1932

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 9, 1935

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 12, 1935

Pollock Woman Struck By Small Boy In Snowball - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 31, 1935

Camp Salt Creek Quarantine Lifted - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 7, 1935

Local Brevities - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 22, 1935

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 9, 1935

Highway Rerouting Is Studied - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 16, 1935

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 2, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 8, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 18, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 20, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 23, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 27, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, May 1, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, May 8, 1935

Pollock Items - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, May 17, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, May 18, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 4, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 11, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 18, 1935

Pollock - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 9, 1935

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 12, 1935

Pollock Items - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 17, 1935

Pollock Items - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 22, 1935

Pollock Items - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 4, 1935

U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971

Redding Isolated - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 28, 1940

That Ribbon Of Highway I: Highway 99 from the Oregon Border to the State Capital by Jill Livinston 1996 0-9651277-3-2 Second edition. Published by Living Gold Press. 212 Pages.

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/samcc/MS0032.pdf

California Unearthed presents: Historic 1909 Freight Car Discovered

Head on over to California Unearthed to watch the brand-new episode that features myself, and in collaboration with the Shasta Cascade Rail Preservation Society’s general historian, Dave Jungkeit. Filming Rizzle Hammon, James White and Riah Stevens’ 1909 Freight Train Car Wreckage discovery site at Shasta Lake.