The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1901, Page 5

THE SAN FRANC ISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26 COPPER METROPOLIS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 1901 IS EVERY DAY ASSUMING GREATER IMPORTANCE Immense Mineral Resources of ‘the Several Northern Counties Are Giving Redding Proud Place Among Cities of the State. Smelters Belch Smoke Day and Night | | / 7207, The Shasta County Bank has a new and costly home on Market street, between Yuba and Placer. Office and store block are in construction. Many cottages have ! Real estate agents are fore- sceing the coming of a greater population and are placing large tracts of eligible 1 on the market for building sites. improvements will undoubtedly made on a large scale. n built MOUNTAIN COPPER PLANT. Millions in Red Metal Annually Pro- duced at Keswick. than the counties to Redding is that of the Mountain Cop- per Company at Keswick. The force men employed there has ranged as high as 1500. M Dittmer says that the | Copper Company is producing at the rate of 00,000 per year, and that e Bully Hill Copper Mining and Smelt- R. la Ma resent a ing Company, of which J is the moving spirit, has : nual rate of production of $: which will be doubled soon by the increase of elters. Every visitor to Redding who at his disposa s Keswick. to_enter the but h in th fa- Mountain swick greatne rprise > hills surround the sme and from any point a good view is obtainable. The mine is z up on the mountai side. _Thirteen of track are em- ployed by the trains to bring m: railw > be | The nearest of the great copper plants of | ) N e A 2 2sa s — TYPICAL SC :NES IN REDDING AND AMONG THE LARGER MINING SECTIONS OF SHASTA COUNTY, IL- LUSTRATING THE METHODS BY WHICH THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH ARE MAKING COUNT AND ARE FOSTERING PROSPERITY. { | THEIR WORK | | | ding did not suffer in the least. Prosperity Follows Discovery of Ledges " Upon Which Nature Has Laid a Midas Finger and Vast Fortunes Are Being Made. Roads Traversed by Hundreds of Freighters X <+ the new place was opened for business on he following day. A. S. Castle estabb- lished the first boarding accommodations, in a large tent. Judge C. C. Bush began the first substantial improvement, erect- ing a frame store building on the corner of California and Butte streets, the site of the present Bush block. 1he inherent vitality of Redding was demonstrated when the railroad was ex- tended to Oregon, which furnished a test concerning Redding's ability to retain its hold upon the forwarding trade. Red- The re- moval of the county seat to Redding from Shasta was authorized by the cour- ty in 1888. An estimate is made that pounds of freight are annual | loaded at the Redding depot. property is reported to have . The present capitalization r the dividends amounted “Llue British cap- italists owning the property are making ry fine thing out of their investment. De La M i at Bully Hull, have given r ttlements, Cop- per City and wo have a pop- ulation 1500, according to the The town of De La far belongs to a stock company. It is r old. Stores, a schoolhous hurch, a weekly paper, four hote! f which is three stories high), shop. laundry, lodging-houses, d the features of this s ear-old infant Copper Cit promises to be much larger. T Mar mines are shipping largely been is 36, to New IN COMMANDING POSITION. || Sends Supplies to a Region of Great| | Richness. a e Redding occupies the to the surrounding mento held in ly days. It is r of distribution in all directions, 1 and down, over nd the r their | | rees carry in and boilers and ' and all the HERE is no boom n Redding. nency. a very large degree. the proximity has a great forwarding business, whic lated to the surrounding count | utary to Redding. One centered try about Sisson )¢ needed at the There is no doubt that we have a routes from Redding | sta County, | bonding to furnish the .city in the best po: to become permanent residents. rS. comparatively new ci | comfort of t This is stil Big Bend Coldridgy Gulch, Bidwell, These a | We have a free reading room and . Miners- ague, North r Bridge, | | Shin- | | with us what we have. to push-this city forward constantly. the commanding station of gate- Redding relies upon the mines for her prosperity. at least in The reliance indicated is of great deposits of ore at Keswick, Bully Hill, Bala- kiala, Kennett, Clear Creck, Harrison Gulch and other locdlities. ch is hers by right of situation as re- There are two large lumbe at Bella Vista; the other present Board of Trustees of the city was elected upon the programme of better streets and a sewer system. So far that has not been carried out, but there is no doubt that public sentiment favors putting ble shape to attract outsiders of the desirable sort A part of the programme is to build a city hall and to set out shade trees along the streets for beautification and also for zens of the most progressive type have settled here, and that Redding has the favorau - consideration of the keenest the advantage of a world-wide reputation as the city nearest the great cop- n | per mines that have been opened up in this county in the past few years. factors that count for advancement. | prospects in all airections and advantages to match, so that we have no rea- son to doubt that we shall reap a full harvest and that all who make their homes with us will have reason to be thankful that they came here to share The enterprising spirit of Redding may be relied upon President of Redding Board of Trustees. ACTING MAYOR ROHM MAKES 3 FORECAST OF ADVANCEMENT | The conditions are those of perma- ed on knowledge of Redding districts trib- in the coun- progressive population in Redding. The ty, but there are evidences that citi- men in California. It also has library, good schools, good hotels, good J. T. ROHM, to the heart of a great mining region | o benefits have come to Redding dur- | he last few years, and are still swell- | down the ore from the mine, and the Ith. There is not room enough | »r the people who have gone to dwell In th suburbs e been camping in wagons and | ng for houses to be finished to | trains are rarely quiet. The works are operated by t hifts of men, so that the work never es. To have what is technically known a “freeze up’ costs money. Outside of the gates of the op- ommodate them. Parties who expect- | erating plant the town has grown up. It ed to have houses have compromised on | is of unpainted houses for the greater ew rooms. Nevertheless there | part, all perched upon hills, for the great deal of bullding in prog- ( ground floor of Keswick is extremely ss recently. The value estimated 1o be | broken. This town has a recent origin. epresented by buildings in progress at | The population is estimated at about 1200. one time very lately was $250,000. At this | The stages run to and from Keswick three time two new hotels are being added. One | times daily. Vegetation fades away be- of these is @ brick four-story structure, | fore the fumes of the smelters. Two miles 1o contain 140 rooms. This is buflt with | distant the forest trees are. dead and money taken from the mines of Trinity | withered, but the men, women and chil- County. The other new hotel mentioned is ' dren in Keswick appear to thrive. The of wood, three stories high, which stands | pay roll at Keswick amounts to about on the corner of Butte and Oregon streets. | $250,000 per month. The price paid for s | Jersey, where Mr. De La Mar has con- structed a refining plant on a large scale. PROMISE BIG RETURNS. Many Mining Properties Hold Out Fine Promises. It is manifestly impossible to describe all the multitude of mining properties in Shasta County. There are great hopes of the future of Balaklala and Kennett, The Mount Shasta Gold Mines Corpora- tlon is operating the old Mount Shasta gold mine, which has a record of having sent $25,000 per month to the Keswick smelters. Among the prominent mining districts is Harrison Gulch, already weil known to fame. | noonday { bond alive under renewal. the Swee) are bringin, tract for tear profit to Redding. One ing pi in to the m amounted to 5,000, the contractor being a Trustee of Redding. Between Redding and Keswick gold dredging operations are at sight when the teams that vel over the country reads with for distant mines stakes mine, in Trinity County, | Boardman and George C. Boardman, all A 1 supplie and mining camy towns are loaded up in_ the | square facing the railroad ireight shed on one side and a principal business of Redding on the other. One needs to travel no farther to see how things were done in the pioneer da; when men re- lied upon their own energies to cover the distances to the mines. There have been counted as many as 130 freighting teams in the square afternoon. The men i are sunburnea and hardy—tough, as a knot, and_at once plucky and | good- humored. You will see them later in the day, if you ride abroad, making their eal at some small town or by Redding apprecia advantage of the this service of freighting team business to it. Equally with. the miners, the stage drivers and the teamsters are making the city grow. There is a good stor which fllustrates the avidity with which eligible mining properties in Shasta Coun- ty are now sought. According to this the Mountain Copper Company had the Bala- klala mine under bond for $200,000. On the day that the bond expired the man- ager of the Copper Mining Company tele- phoned the owners to come out and get §15.000, the amount required to keep the They did not respond. The money was not sent to them: In ninety days the property was sold for $450,000 to Phlladelp{flans. a win- ning for the owners of $250,000 in three | months by waiting. During a recent suit in court in Bed- ding Mr. Cohen, manager of the Bully Hill property, made a statement under oath that the profits of the Bully Hill were $100,000 per month. The price paid for the property by the present owners lg reported to have been $250,000. One more statement of interest should going the rounds | be made concerning the mines of Shasta | County as a whole. the annual report of the State Mineralo- gist, who finds that the total output in- creased from $4,661,981 in 1599 to $,574,026 in 1900, the difference in favor of the last year being $912,045. The present year will show another large gain. No one believes that the price of copper, which has fallen as a result of manipulation, will be as low for any length of time as it has been're. cently. all the time. Conditlons will be more fa- vorable in the matter of prices after a time, a consideration which vitally af- fects one of the largest copper belts on earth, that of Shasta County. BIG SHIPPING CENTER. Redding Holds the Fourth Place as Freight Distributing Point. Local estimates and the figures of the Southern Pacific Company give Redding the position of being the fourth forward- ing point in California. The freights mov- ing between Redding and Keswick alone are of sufficient bulk to give rise to a plan for the construction of ‘an electric road between the two points. The movers in The great operations at | this enterprise are R. G. Parker, T. D. The multiplication of ~electrical | uses makes the demand for copper’larger | This is derived from | | mand has been found. The Southern P: T N whom are well known in San Fran- . Mr. Parker says that he has looked into the matter of making the road pa and is satisfied, after a full investigatipn, that there is money in it. The route may involve bridging the Sacramento River two places. Mr. Parker has been resid- ing some time in Redding, where he ha opened up the Boardman addition to Red- ding and has energetically ‘pushed the le of many lots, for which a good de- cific Company’s road does not go near the smelters at Keswick. Mr. Parker s; that in that fact is a promise of busine for an electric road. He also thinks it probable that the road would have the effect of removing many families lrnmi Keswick to Redding on account of the The business structures in the center of the city are constructed of brick. The streets Redding is lighted by electricity. of grade. The Sacra- panned by a free bridge, which facilitates travel very largely. From many points in the city Mount Shasta looms up grandly and other snowy mountains are also in sight. There are many n residences. The most prominent building in the city the County Courthouse. erected in 1888 at a cost of $60,000. Two handsome buildings are owned by fra- ternal organizations, the Temple Hotel building being the property of the Ma- sonic Building Association, while the Odd Fellows own a business block. There are two sets of public officials in Redding. The Board of Trustees of the city consists of Dr. J. T. Rohm, president of the board and acting Mayor; Carl R. x3 are wide and e: mento River is is X proximately at 3000. Since the T years we will have a populati which purchased the celebrated Iron per, gold and silver. miles, reaching to the town of De La from. distributing point for Trinity County, rich gravel deposits. Add to this the ti The traveling public tells us that R ing that of any five vears. There is of Redding. F. EDITOR SWASEY SEES SIGNS OF GREATNESS FOR REDDING | HE United States census of 1900 placed Redding’s population ap- persons have taken up their residence here. dustry. Our ores being base in their nature; their treatment never met with { much success until the smelter was introduced by Since then the county has advanced from the sixth to the leading or first county in the State as a mineral producer. plants with a prospect of two more in the near future. tively ‘ascertalned that, beginning at Keswick, on the Sacramento River, we have a continuous copper deposit in the form of a horseshoe, Redding is not only the center of this rich mineral belt, but is also the rich placer mines, surpassing any county in the State for her extensive and Shasta and the rapid and continuous growth of Redding is certain. the State, and we expect to experience growth in the year 1902 surpass- between Sacramento and the State line, and that is going to be the City M. SWASEY, Editor Redding Free Press. census was taken at least 1000 more Within the next five on of 10,000. Mining is the leading in- an English company Mountain Mine, a vast deposit of cop- We now two smelting It has been posi- have for fifteen Mar, near Pit River, with spurs there- which has become famous for her imber resources of the county of edding is the best advertised city in sure to be a large and prosperous city | 3 many advantages of the latter as a place of residence. According to the returns of County Aud- itor Blodgett, the assessed valuation of Shasta County, outside of railroad prop- erties, has increased from $7,674778 in tiie roll of 1900 to $7,926,120 for 1901. The in- crease largely represents the growth of Redding, so Mr. Blodgett says. The as- sessment of the county in 1599 footed up $6,648,760, less the rallroad properties. The increase is seen by these official figures to be continuous. History of the Town Is One of Great Advancement. The history of Redding Is typical. It was 1aid out by the raflroad surveyers and was named after Joseph D. Redding, once prominent in the councils of the Southern Pacific Company. The first railroad train reached Redding on the night of Sunday, September 1, 1872. The railway office in Briggs, H. Clineschmidt, Samuel Hill and Willlam Welch. The county officials in Redding are. Superior Judge Edward Sweeney, Sheriff Charles H. Behrens. Under Sheriff James Riehardson, County Clerk and Auditor W. O. Blodgett, Re- corder J. R. Lowden, District Attorney Thomas B. Dozier, County Treasurer L. M. Dennis, School Superintendent Miss M. I. Poore, Assessor Alec Ludwig, Coro- ner Thomas Greene, Surveyor Alf Balt- zell, Supervisors Charles = Stevens, A. Cahow, O. Grittner, C. C. Bidwell and William Smith. In addition to two bright and enterpris- ing daily papers, the Free Press and the Searchlight, the community supports a mining journal, the Mineral Wealth of Northern California. To these journals :]nuch of the prosperity of the county is ue. INTERESTS ARE VARIED. Lumber and Cattle Industries Add to Shasta County’s Welfare. Mining is not the only large Interest of This structure was | _ | Shasta County. Fruit growing has been | successfully followed at Anderson. which is twelve miles south of Redding. " At Bella Vista, twelve miles east from Red- ding, is the headquarters of the Terry | Lumber Company, which has a vast lum- | ber output in sugar pine and yellow pine principally. Burney Valley, situated sixty-six miles northeast from Redding, is a good agricultural country. There are also agricuitural and stock interests at Burgess, fifty-five miles northeast from Reddirg. The Shasta King, Balaklala and Stowell groups of mines are near Copley, on the railroad, nine miles north from Kedding, ‘on the Sacramento River. Cottonwood 1S a good shipping point. It is eighteen miles from Redding. The soil is productive. At French Guich there are good mining properties. A dally stage connection is maintained with Redding. There are excellent mining prospects at Gas Point, Hart, Whitehouse, Igo, Knob— which latter is the postoffice name for Harrison Qulch—Middle Creek, Oak Run, Shasta, Shingletown, Whiskytown and Stillwater. The mineral springs and health resorts of Shasta County are famous. The Redding iocal papers give an ac- count of a railroad which is now project- ed for the purpose of connectln$ Fall River Mills with the Southern Pacific main line. The company codcerned in the project is the Shasta Mineral Belt Railway, of which D. P. ak of St. Louis is the president. Two routes are offered—one following the Pit River from its junction with the Sacramento River, three miles above Kennett, and the other extending from Bella Vista, the terminus of the Terry road. The purpose alleged is to push on through Modoc County with this line. The historic town of Shasta is gradual- ly being merged into the corporate exist- ence of Redding by the simple process of migration. People who were formerly dwellers in Shasta are now leading eciti- zens in Redding. They and their house- hold goods have gone to Redding for fthe greater number of advantages afforded by the larger community. The stores of Shasta are now nearly all closed. Dur- ing the last year the only hotel of Shasta has succumbed. Various business places have followed suit. The old-time stores are represented only by unoccupied brick buildings. The former store windows are covered by iron blinds, or shutters, that are never taken down now. A few of the old residents remain. The oldest of these in point of years of residence is probably Mrs. C. N. Knox, who has resided in | Shasta continuously ever since 1852. Else- where the story is told of the taking away of the county seat to Redding. Over the principal street of Shasta—the tcwn is mainly all upon one ' street—the teamsters drive constantly on their way to Whiskytown, Weaverville and other points, where there is a demand for sup- plies. 'Shasta 1s the oldest town fn Northe ern California. Once it was the center of great mining activity. No one can safely say that it will not again become promi- pent. The copper discoverfes that have given Shasta County its present ‘leading position among the mineral counties of California were not known a few years ago. Other discoveries are probable. It was in Shasta, in 1350, that the first public meeting was held at which the or- ganization of Shasta County was pro- posed. Then Shasta County embraced an area 200 miles square, extending from the Oregon State line on the north to Red Bluff on the south and from the summit of the Coast Range Mountains on the west to the Slerra Nevada Mountains on the east. County officers were elected. for | Shasta County on October 7, 1850, which was about one month after the bill was passed by the National Congress admit- ting California as a State of the Union. Shasta was chosén as the county seat o February 15, 1851 Heavy Frost in the South. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2%.—There was a heavy frost this morning in exposed glaces, but no reports of damage to fruits ave been received. The local weather bureau to-day sent out a warning notice to orchardists predicting a heavy frost to- night and advising the usual precautions against damage. BRAZIL, Ind., Dec. 25.—In defending his mother from an assault by her drunken hus- | band, Theodore Watkins, colored, 13 years of age, shot and killed his father to-night. Wat- kins had attacked his wife with a hatchet. — e (SRAIN- | | THE PURE | GRAIN COFFEE Grain-O is not a stimulant, like coffee. It is a tonic and its effects are permanenl. 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