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(13) Twenty-third Street Road, from San Pablo Station Road to Twenty-third Street and the limits of Richmond, 0.28 miles.
(14) Macdonald Avenue, from San Pablo Avenue Road on Mac- donald Avenue to Richmond limits, 1.29 miles.
(15) Stege Road, from San Pablo Avenue and Potrero Avenue on Potrero to Bay, and on Bay to Stege, 0.83 miles.
(16) Potrero-Pullman Avenue, from Potrero and Bay on Potrero to Pullman and on Pullman to Cutting Boulevard, 0.80 miles.
(17) Cutting Boulevard, from Pullman Avenue across the Southern Pacific right of way on Cutting to the limits of Richmond, 0.44 miles.
(18) San Ramon Valley Road from the county boundary through Danville, 7.83 miles.
(19) Tassajara Road, from Danville to Tassajara, 8.06 miles.
(20) Danville-Walnut Creek Road, from Danville through Alamo and Walnut Creek, 6.43 miles.
(21) Tunnel Road from Walnut Creek through Lafayette to the county line, 10.78 miles.
(22) Walnut Creek-Concord Road, from Walnut Creek to Con- cord, 6.27 miles.
(23) Clayton Road, from the limits of Concord to Clayton, 5.34 miles.
(24) Concord-Martinez Road, from the limits of Concord to Bay Point-Martinez Road, 2.04 miles.
Estimated mileage, 124.60. Estimated cost, $1,460,000, including grading, paving, bridges, culverts, overhead, engineering, etc .: Bridges and culverts, $409,600; grading and paving, $1,051,000.
The bond election called for deciding upon the building of the roads is set for August 2. The success of the movement means more for the county than any other project. The board of supervisors adopted the report of the highway commission, and sounded the slogan in the cause of prosperity by calling an election for a bond issue of $1,460,000 for 124 miles of roads.
July 14, 1910 .- Assessed valuation of the county, $35,231,648.
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Successful rallies being held throughout the county for good roads have created great enthusiasm.
Directors elected on July 29 for a joint ferry company were : J. H. Glendon, Benicia ; Gus Gnauf, Ed Kuhland and L. A. Stevens, Martinez ; J. W. McClellan, L. M. Lasell and J. J. McNamara. President, J. J. McNamara; vice-president, J. H. Glendon; secretary, H. K. White; treasurer, Bank of Martinez.
The highway commission bonds were defeated by 256 votes.
September 17, 1910 .- Pacheco Mills move their office and warehouse to Concord. The big mill remains at Pacheco. Work on the storage warehouse near the Southern Pacific depot in Concord is being pushed rapidly.
On October 7, 1910, fire broke out in the Burlington Hotel at Port Costa, causing a damage of $1000.
October 8, 1910 .- The Pinole Hotel was totally destroyed by fire on Friday, the 7th, together with a cottage owned by Mrs. Frater; loss was $10,000.
The greatest real estate deal in the history of the county, from the standpoint of acreage and money, was made on October 7, when R. N. Burgess, of San Francisco, purchased the holding of Foskett & Elsworthy, stock raisers and butchers of Concord, thus coming into possession of 3700 acres. The tract consists of seven ranches: Government, Murphy, part of Galindo, Ayres, Webster, Samuels and Clier ranches.
With a charter membership of over sixty, the Concord Chamber of Commerce was organized October 15, 1910, at a meeting held in the I. O. O. F. Hall. A. W. Maltby was elected president; George W. Wilson, secretary ; M. E. Lyon, treasurer. Board of Directors : H. Hels- worthy, G. W. Whitman, E. U. Leland, and M. Neustaedter.
November 5, 1910 .- Three autoists were killed and two injured in an accident on Pacheco Road, Sunday night, when a large roadster plunged into the ditch being excavated by the Port Costa Water Company two miles from Martinez. The dead are: Clarence E. Kline, J. P. Mahoney, and Peter Pacheco; the injured, J. McKay and Antonio Fortado.
November 12, 1910 .- J. M. Stow has completed a fine business block in Walnut Creek, and another is in course of construction.
On November 22, 1910, at one p.m., the first rails of the Oakland & Antioch Electric were laid at Bay Point. One hundred men are engaged in the work.
The Postoffice at Somersville is to be discontinued. At one time this was the only office in the county to do an international money order business. When the coal mines closed, the business gradually decreased. It is also said that the Nortonville office is to be closed.
February 13, 1911 .- The Oakland & Antioch Electric operated its first car from Bay Point Monday afternoon at three o'clock, and amid the
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tooting of horns and the blowing of whistles made its run from Bay Point to Concord. A splendid banquet was held in Concord.
February 25, 1911 .- Miss Emilie Haywood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Haywood of Alhambra Valley, is now playing the leading part in the "Madame Sherry" Company in the East, after playing under- study one season with the New York Company. Wherever they go, Miss Haywood is making a hit with the critics.
March 11, 1911 .- The new County Hospital building has been com- pleted within the estimates and has been accepted by the supervisors.
The opening of the R. N. Burgess holdings, which have been sub- divided near Concord, occurs next Sunday. Electric cars will be operated from Bay Point to Concord, and special trains will be run over the Southern Pacific from Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley.
The election in Black Diamond to change the name to Pittsburg was carried 80 to 30.
The Oakland & Antioch Electric Railway Company have reincor- porated as the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern Railway, with a capital stock of $10,000,000, of which $80,000 is paid up.
On May 6, 1911, a grand barbecue was held at Walnut Creek to welcome the advent of the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern Railway.
June 3, 1911 .- Three thousand dollars were subscribed in one hour towards the building of the highway between Bay Point and Martinez.
June 6, 1911 .- Walnut Creek voted $20,000 bonds for a new gram- mar school building, the bonds carrying 68 to 8.
The Woman's Improvement Club was formed at Walnut Creek on July 5. Mrs. H. Spencer was elected president; Mrs Hackett, vice-presi- dent; Mrs. George Crompton, secretary; Mrs. Joseph Silveira and Mrs. R. L. Nougaret, trustees.
September 16, 1911 .- R. N. Burgess and his associates are consid- ering opening a National Bank at Walnut Creek. It has been rumored for some time that a branch of the Concord Bank would be started at Walnut Creek.
October 15, 1911 .- Sixteen families were rendered homeless and the town hall was destroyed by a fire in Rodeo, through the overturning of a lamp in a barn while a woman was milking a cow. Lack of water hindered the work of the fire-fighters.
November 4, 1911 .- Point of Timber Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, was instituted at Byron. Mrs. H. T. Hammond was elected president; Mrs. A. Alexson, past president; Mrs. C. Cople, first vice-president; Grace Blum, second vice-president; Viola Holway, third vice-president ; Mrs. L. Richardson, secretary; Mrs. A. Plumley, treasur- er; Maud Plumley, financial secretary; Mrs. M. Gaines, marshal; Minnie Steding, inside sentry; Lottie Hudson, outside sentry; Mrs. W. Frey, Mrs. A. Pitou and Mrs. Stone, trustees. 11
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The Town Hall site was purchased by the trustees for $5000, and the remainder of the property was purchased for $4000, from the general fund for park purposes.
January 6, 1912 .- The Martinez-Benicia Ferry Company will be incorporated with capital stock of $50,000, shares $10 each.
January 20, 1912 .- Contra Costa Chamber of Commerce is launched at Concord. Over 100 boosters gathered at the banquet to work for ali Contra Costa County. The members present Friday night, January 19. are determined that the people of the county shall learn and the world shall know that the old saying, "Joined hands and united efforts can win and build an empire," is applicable to this county as well as any other part of the State. A feature of the speeches was the good-roads bond issue.
During 1911 Contra Costa County was second in the State in the production of barley, which was over 3,000,000 bushels worth over $1,500,000.
February 17, 1912 .- The old Veale tract of 1700 acres, about five miles northeast of Brentwood, was sold to the California Realty Com- pany of San Jose for $140,000.
February 24, 1912 .- The work on the loading station and oil refinery at Martinez will begin at once, was the statement of J. C. Van Eck manager of the Rothschild interests in the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Com. pany. The initial appropriation is $500,000.
On Thursday, February 22, officials of the Associated Oil Company visited Martinez and Avon and inspected the site for their proposed refinery at Avon. If building operations begin soon, 500 men will be employed in construction work.
On March 14, Bay Point Chamber of Commerce was organized with sixteen charter members. The following officers were elected: Presi dent, S. W. Cunningham; vice-president, W. L. Cleveland; secretary, S. Shideler ; treasurer, A. W. Smith.
March 16. 1912 .- Contra Costa Chamber of Commerce was organ- ized and officially launched today. Following are the officers : President, C. J. Rihn, of Richmond; first vice-president, E. J. Randall, of Concord ; second vice-president, F. C. Macgurn; third vice-president, C. S. Dodge, of Crockett; secretary, F. E. Brooks, of Walnut Creek; treasurer, W. A. Hale, of Martinez. Directors : L. R. Mead, of Byron; Sumner Crosby, of Pittsburg; W. McBryde, of Pinole; Mrs. E. H. Shibley, of Martinez, president of the Women's Improvement Club; Mrs. C. W. Keeney, presi- dent of the Antioch Women's Club; Mrs. G. S. Gibson, president of the Richmond Women's Improvement Club. Charter members: W. A. Rog- ers, joseph McCann, Julia A. Barry, John Rosa, A. N. Paterson, G. L. Putnam, C. L. Pingree, G. P. Upham, D. C. Ray, C. M. Bulger, R. R. Veale, Cecil Hall, H. J. Kammerer, F. C. Gill, S. M. Dodge, J. H. Martin, C. L. Dodge, D. J. Lucey, R. L. Clancy, J. R. Nystrom, L. N. Buttner, J. O'B. Wyatt, H. M. Stone, C. G. Goold. N. S. Boone, J. Kent, E. H. Shibley, Lillian V. Shibley, Mildred
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L. Crampton, Leila E. Veale, S. Y. Shideler, W. R. South, J. M. Christen, F. P. Munson, L. H. Enloe, G. D. Young, H. Hall, I. B. Sali- ture, W. J. Love, W. Eggleston, T. S. Newson, T. B. Duery, W. G. Shaw, M. T. Sickal, E. J. Randall, L. Anderson Company, M. R. Jones, J. H. Trythall, J. W. McClellan, F. H. Upham, W. H. Penniman, P. H. Cun- ningham, C. Macgurn, H. A. West, A. C Gehringer, G. T. Crampton, F. L. Glass, W. A. Rugg, W. A. Hale, W. R. Sharkey, J. J. McNamara, J. P. Allen, J. F. Hoey, W. B. Williams, L. L. Levinson, G. O. Duncan, Nellie K. Cushing, Aga D. Lander, E. B. Barber, P. Douglas, W. S. Bur pee, M. W. Joost, J. H. Coulter, A. B. Coleman, G. E. Green, F. E. Brooks.
March 27, 1912 .- On March 23, 1912, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Thomp- son celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding at Lafayette.
May 18, 1912 .- R. N. Burgess buys Lyons' interest in Concord Bank. This may mean that he will not open another bank as planned.
June 8, 1912 .- The Pacheco Flour Mills are to suspend milling
June 11, 1912 .- The Concord Warehouses were destroyed by fire. The losses were as follows: A. E. Blum, $5000, insurance, $1500; Mt. Diablo Commercial Co., grain, $7000, well insured; Mt. Diablo Com- mercial Co., hay, $3000, well insured; home of Miss Barrett, $1500.
July 13, 1912 .- A crew of fifty workmen with tools arrived at Dan- ville Wednesday night to begin work on the new road to the summit of Mt. Diablo, starting at Oakwood Park Stock Farm. The work has been started by the R. N. Burgess Company. Over 150 cars of rock and gravel has been ordered and will be delivered over the Southern Pacific.
On July 18 the famous Byron Hot Springs Hotel was burned to the ground. There were 100 guests in the hotel, but all escaped. Eight years ago the old hotel building was destroyed.
July 20, 1912 .- The Dutch Shell Company have awarded the con- tract for ten steel tanks for storage of oil and the steel gas holders for the Asiatic Petroleum Company or Indian Oil Company, for $57,350, to the Western Pipe & Steel Company.
C. A. Hooper, Pittsburgh millionaire, has purchased the Moraga Grant at a cost of $1,000,000.
August 10, 1912 .- The Mount Diablo Company will exploit Oak- wood Farm. The club-house is being remodeled for occupancy.
August 10, 1912 .- The town trustees awarded Murry-Elwell Com- pany the contract to improve the water-front; their bid being $31,340, in- cluding the architect's and engineer's fees.
The charter for the Walnut Creek National Bank has arrived, and the R. N. Burgess Company will erect a new building for bank purposes.
October 12, 1912 .- Great crowds were present at the Concord Wal- nut Carnival.
October 21, 1912 .- The branch of San Ramon Valley Bank at Con- cord opened for business at nine o'clock a. m., this Monday. Guy E.
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Green is cashier ; J. H. Coulter, assistant ; Eli Hutchinson and M. Frank Russi, resident directors.
The Corcoran ranch between Benicia and Selby, bordering Carquinez Straits, directly in the so-called funnel zone of the Selby Smelter, has been sold by the owners, Dan, John and Michael Corcoran, to the Selby Com- pany for $100,000.
Bay View Pavilion, the only dance and entertainment hall in Mar- tinez, was destroyed by fire on October 27. It was built in 1905 by J. J. McNamara and Reese Jones.
The First National Bank of Walnut Creek, founded by R. N. Burgess Company, opened for business in the Brooks real estate offices at Wal- nut Creek on October 28. J. A. Flint is cashier, and Elmer Cameron, as- sistant cashier.
November 2, 1912 .- The John Nicholl Company sold to J. H. T. Watkinson 112 acres in the city of Richmond for $500,000. A $400,000 mortgage was given to Nicholl by Watkinson. Nicholl purchased the tract a few years ago for $100 per acre.
November 16, 1912 .- The property of the Judson Dynamite & Pow- der Company, near Stege, has been sold to the E. I. du Pont de Nemours' Powder Company of Pinole.
The Antioch paper mills, one of the most extensive industrial enter- prises in the county, and the property of the Paraffine Paint Company, were totally destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. The fire started in Mill No. 5 when an oiler threw a quantity of oil on a hot roller used in slicking the paper. The oil blazed to the ceiling and set fire to the mill before aid could be summoned. The costly machinery in all the mills was entirely destroyed. The loss to the company is $500,000. About 130 men are thrown out of employment. During the last few months work has been under way, enlarging the plant to double its former capacity, and was about completed.
November 23, 1912 .- The old Tule Ranch will be known hereafter as the Knightsen Ranch. It was purchased by W. J. Hotchkiss, of Ber- keley, and comprises 3000 acres, part of which was at one time under culti- vation, only to be destroyed by the great Jersey break several years ago. Three clamshell dredgers are working night and day on the reclamation project. When the levees are completed, a drainage pump, which cost $7000, will be installed.
The cottages and hotel at Byron Hot Springs are to be rebuilt at once.
December 4, 1912 .- The town trustees accepted the new City Hall built by G. W. Boxton at a contract cost of $12,990. The hall is a fine two-story brick building, and is a credit to the town.
December 14, 1912 .- The rebuilding of the tunnel road is now in progress. About twenty men and teams are working from the Fish ranch towards the tunnel.
December 21, 1912 .- The California Delta Farms Company, capital- ization $7,500,000, with an authorized bond issue of $3,500,000, acquired
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by purchase 39,337 acres of delta lands at an estimated value of $12,000,- 000. Lee A. Phillips, of San Francisco, is president of the company. Twenty-two thousand acres are now under cultivation and leased. The lands involved are the Roosevelt and King Edward islands, owned by Holland Land & Water Company, and the Palms & Orwood tracts, owned by Orwood Land Company. On the latter's tract, 1000 acres are in asparagus, 5600 acres in potatoes, and 1400 acres in onions.
Lee Dyer received the appointment as postmaster at Avon and will open the office to accommodate the Association employees at work on the Marsh lands.
A head-on collision in dense fog wrecked two locomotives and injured several trainmen and passengers on the Santa Fe in Rodeo Valley near Luzon, Tuesday, the 17th of December. The injured passengers and trainmen, except those eastbound, were taken in a relief train to Richmond. Greater disaster was averted by the action of Dave Hopkins, on the west- bound train, who slowed down at the curve to comply with orders, saw the smoke of the on-coming train, and had his train at almost a stand- still when the collision occurred.
January 9, 1913 .- Martinez people awakened to find a blanket of snow over two inches deep covering the ground. Young and old promptly took part in the greatest snow carnival ever held here. Snowballing and tobogganing were in order. The grammar and high schools were dis- missed for the morning, so that all could enjoy the sport.
Ground was broken for a $1,000,000 refinery at Avon by the Asso- ciated Oil Company.
The Associated Oil Company asks for a wharf franchise; $10,000 is the estimated cost of the wharf.
Lacking just one week of being two years after the first Oakland & Antioch electric car was run over the line from Bay Point to Concord, the first electric train passed through Redwood Canyon tunnel Friday, February 21, onto the Oakland side and ran to Lake Temescal.
March 1, 1913 .- The Western Pipe and Steel Company have been awarded the contract to erect twenty-five steel oil tanks, each of 55,000- barrel capacity, for the Associated Oil Company at Avon. The Nevada Dock Station will be maintained as terminus for their pipe lines.
The Oakland & Antioch line is opened from Bay Point to Oakland. The golden spike was driven Saturday, March 2, at midnight, by General Manager H. A. Mitchell.
Balfour-Guthrie Company was awarded the contract for a modern two-story reinforced concrete forty-room hotel building at Brentwood, to cost $41,000.
April 5, 1913 .- The Associated Oil Company awards the contract for the erection of machine shops, boiler and pump houses, and drum sheds at Avon, to MacDonald & Kahn, at a cost of $19,489.
Articles of incorporation for the Bank of Brentwood were filed on April 4; capitalization, $50,000; $25,000 paid up. This is a Balfour-
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Guthrie concern. R. F. Macleod, secretary of the company, holds 210 shares; R. E. Dean, 10 shares; F. H. Ludinghouse, 10 shares; Robert Wallace, Jr., 10 shares ; and Alex Burness, 10 shares.
A Farmers' Institute was held at Oakley, April 17 and 18, and proved to be a big affair.
May 10, 1913 .- With the placing in position of the forty-fifth five- foot section of concrete, on May 5, the great concrete chimney of the Mountain Copper Works in this city, the largest chimney of its kind in the State, was practically completed. When the last bucket of concrete was deposited the American flag was raised, 300 feet above sea level.
On June 3, fires were built in the first of the three furnaces at the Mountain Copper Company's smelter, and the other two are to be con- nected up during the week. The mammoth chimney proved a success.
May 17, 1913 .- Warren McBryde was appointed supervisor in Dis- trict No. 1 to succeed C. J. Rihn, resigned.
May 24, 1913 .- The "Liberty Bell," the student body annual of the Liberty Union High School of Brentwood, is off the press in the Gazette office, and is one of the handsomest high-school annuals ever issued in the county. It is a book of seventy-eight pages, with a large advertising section and with pictures of the graduating class: Myra Pearce, Elaine Wallace, Edith Cakebread, Richard Wallace and Judson Swift. The cover design is a Liberty Bell; the colors, purple and gold; and it is dedi- cated to Balfour-Guthrie Company. Myra Pearce is the editor-in-chief, and Elaine Wallace, business manager.
The finest annual ever issued by the students of the Alhambra High School, "The Torch," is now off the press. It is a book of 100 pages, replete with interesting stories, bright and snappy notes, and fine cuts, and is bound in alligator skin, embossed in gold. Credit for the book is given J. K. Cushing, the editor, and M. B. Veale, the business manager, and their staffs.
June 28, 1913 .- The tunnel road is now open, as the road from the Fish ranch to the tunnel is completed. While the road was closed, the supervisors of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties lowered the floor two feet and macadamized it. .
The first electric train from Sacramento to the Bay over the O. A. & E. was operated Wednesday, July 3, when the officials and promoters made their first official tour. The ferry boat Brigit, which will ferry the trains across Suisun Bay, was delivered to the company Tuesday evening and carried its first train of cars Wednesday morning.
J. Rio Baker was appointed county treasurer to succeed L. N. Buttner, deceased.
July 12, 1913 .- The ferry boat, City of Seattle, which is to be put on the Martinez & Benicia run, arrived at Benicia Sunday after a successful trip from Seattle in tow of the steamer Wm. Chatham. As soon as the boat has been inspected and a number of changes made, it will be put in operation.
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July, 1913 .- The property valuation of Contra Costa County is giv- en as $48,000,000 :
Alamo
$300,265
Nichols
$ 610,340
Alhambra
204,865
Orinda
119,460
Antioch
412.590
Oak Grove
797,430
Antone
77,455
Oakley
167,950
Ambrose
238,155
Pinole
176,315
Briones
224,370
Pacheco 403,565
Brentwood
511,445
Pittsburg
840,485
Byron
335,115
Pleasant Hill
359,440
Concord
842,515
Port Costa
462,325
Cowell
467,210
Rodeo
446,230
Cunningham
430,490
Richmond '
1,944,730
Carquinez
1,506,820
Sobrante
839,920
Danville
359,550
Selby
956,810
Deer Valley
207,755
Summit
38,125
Eden Plain
652,165
Sycamore
368,160
Excelsior
524,655
San Pablo
1,284,510
Green Valley
218,245
Somersville
71,270
Franklin
74,780
San Ramon
526,453
Highland
121,600
Sand Mound
509,730
Hot Springs
307,525
Sheldon
167.305
Iron House
293,735
Tassajara
196,475
Jersey
234,055
Vine Hill
218,590
Lime Quarry
317,445
Vasco
89,065
Live Oak
238,400
Walnut Creek
597,765
Lone Tree
240,545
Willow Springs
315,380
Lafayette
418,800
Richmond
14,843,795
Liberty
211,785
Pittsburg 657,455
Mt. Pleasant
150,995
Martinez
1,151,510
Moraga
206,785
Antioch
547,165
Morgan Territory
87,050
Concord
298,075
Martinez
213,255
Pinole
158,075
Mt. Diablo
269,855
Hercules
652,715
July 19, 1913 .- Stock subscription for the Martinez-Benicia Ferry & Transportation Company has been closed. About $23,000 in all has been subscribed.
The Bank of Brentwood threw open its doors on July 15. R. G. Dean is president and Lee Durham is cashier. The deposits the first day amounted to $22,138.
Traffic via the Martinez-Benicia ferry is very heavy. Sunday, July 27, the receipts amounted to $200.
August 4, 1913 .- Work has started on the addition to the California- Hawaiian Company's refinery at Crockett. About $2,000,000 will be expended to bring the output to 40,000 tons of refined sugar annually.
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Byron Hot Springs Hotel is to be rebuilt, and the specifications call for a concrete structure.
August 22, 1913 .- A franchise has been sold whereby all towns in Contra Costa County will have gas. S. Waldo Coleman, to whom the franchise was granted, will soon be laying mains throughout the county.
The eight new wells of twelve-inch diameter and from forty to 100 feet deep, which have been sunk during the past few weeks at the Galindo Water Station of the Port Costa Water Company, are soon to be con- nected with the main line pipe, and water will be drawn from them to supply Martinez, Port Costa, Crockett and Rodeo, in addition to the manufacturing establishments which are steady patrons.
August 30, 1913 .- Two aerial electrical stations of the P. G. & E. in Concord and Walnut Creek were wrecked by dynamite and the two towns plunged into darkness about midnight, August 23. The work was done by experts. The dynamite was placed so that the upper portion of one of the tall supporting poles was blown away and the cross-beam so shattered that it dropped, throwing the heavy transformers to the ground, where they were broken. There have been several threats over the employment of non-union men.
The C. A. Smith Lumber Yards at Bay Point were swept by flames on August 26, and over 40,000,000 feet of the most expensive lumber in the yards destroyed; $1,000,000 is the estimated loss. The mill and box factory were saved. Calls for help were sent to Concord, Richmond, Martinez, Pittsburg and Antioch. A special train over the O. A. & E. brought fire-fighters from Pittsburg; a special over the Santa Fe from Richmond arrived about midnight; and about one o'clock a Southern Pa- cific train came from Oakland. The fire tug Crolona of the California & Hawaiian Sugar Company was brought out and did valiant service in saving docks and wharves. Orders were sent out to do everything to stop the fire, and a dynamiting crew blew up several large lumber piles before the flames could be checked. While over 1000 men were fighting the flames, the women of Bay Point prepared hot coffee for them.
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