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On August 27 an aerial transformer of the P. G. & E. in Richmond was blown up at the corner of Cutting Boulevard and Kearney Street, which wrecked the lines carrying current for electric light to Pullman, Stege and East Richmond.
On September 3, 1913, the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern began regular train service over their line from Sacramento to Oakland. The event was celebrated by a luncheon at Hotel Oakland at which city officials, boosters and others from Sacramento joined with Oaklanders in lauding the possi- bilities of the new road.
September 17, 1913 .- The San Ramon warehouse burns, and 850 tons of hay are a total loss. Bishop Brothers and ranchers of the valley were heavy losers.
The 4000-foot wharf at Avon was finished this week. It has a front- age of 200 feet on Suisun Bay and is fifty feet wide.
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A gala event was the presenting of the band stand to the city by the Women's Improvement Club Saturday night. The band concert was a big drawing card of the evening.
At a meeting of the board of directors of the Bank of Concord, held on October 3, the Burgess and Whitman interests in the bank were sold to W. K. Cole and his associates of the San Ramon Valley Bank. The Concord branch will be discontinued.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Yoakum celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary Saturday, November 1, 1913, at their home in Martinez.
On November 30 the Pacheco postoffice was discontinued. It was es- tablished fifty years ago. All mail hereafter will designate Martinez or Concord as postoffice.
The Brentwood Hotel formally opened its doors Monday night for a grand ball. The hotel cost Balfour-Guthrie Company $60,000.
January 3, 1914 .- Pacheco was inundated and two feet of water was on the main highway to Concord. Considerable road-work was washed away, caused by over-flowing of Walnut Creek. Near the slaughter-yards eleven of the telephone poles were blown down on the Martinez-Concord road. At Vallejo Junction the high cliff began to slide and crews were rushed there to protect the railroad. The O. A. & E. suffered from the storm in Moraga Valley, where tracks were undermined.
Rainfall up to January 1, 1914, 9.23 inches.
The Army Board approves the Richmond Harbor project, according to information sent by Congressman C. F. Curry.
The Martinez-Benicia Ferry makes a splendid record. Its financial standing is excellent, as shown by the secretary at a meeting of the stock- holders. Total receipts from July 20 to January 1, $36,788 ; 24,032 pas- sengers were carried, and 4352 autos, 566 motorcycles and 705 teams.
March 7, 1914 .- The first trains over California's first community railway were operated Monday on the new line of the San Ramon Valley Railway, extending from Walnut Creek to Danville. The seven and a half miles of road was built by subscription and is the property of the farmers who own the property over which the road operates. The roll- ing stock and equipment are furnished by the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern Railway.
Henry J. Curry has just completed a new theater building at a cost of over $30,000, which was formally opened on April 17. The theater is a handsome building and fills a long-felt need in Martinez.
The Associated Oil Company is to double its capacity at Avon. They are running full capacity now and are unable to supply the demand for their refined products. The work of grading for the new stills and tank bottoms is under way.
May 23, 1914. - The world's greatest ferry, Contra Costa, was launched in the West Oakland shipyards Saturday morning. It is to be used in ferrying the Southern Pacific trains across the Straits from Benicia to Port Costa. The length of the ferry is 433.4 feet; over guards, 420
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feet; beam, 661/2 feet ; depth moulded, 19.5 feet; depth amidships, 19 feet 9 inches. It will carry four train tracks with a capacity of thirty-six freight cars and two engines. It has fourteen bulkheads; and 2,000,000 feet of lumber, thirty tons of spikes, seventy-six tons of round iron, and 16,600 treenails entered into its construction. The Contra Costa will be put into service on June 1 and will handle the passenger trains through the new steps, while the Solano will handle the freight trains.
St. Mark's Catholic Church in Richmond was totally destroyed by fire on May 22. The rescue of the Blessed Sacrament and the vestments by Rev. O'Connor was one of the incidents which will long be remembered. The church was built in 1911 at a cost of $8000.
June 6, 1914 .- An order was placed by the Shell Oil Company for 172 miles of pipe for a line between Coalinga and Martinez. This is pretty good proof that the Shell Company intends to establish their long- talked-of refinery here.
Contra Costa County, not including Richmond, receives annually hundreds of millions of feet of lumber ; millions of pounds of wood pulp for paper manufacture ; thousands of cars of ores to be smelted, hundreds of carloads of sand, scores of cars of manganese ore and silica, millions of tons of raw sugar to be refined, thousands of cars of grain to be handled at its ports, and thousands of carloads of other raw materials for use in its factories. Contra Costa County produces and ships annually thousands of cars of celery, asparagus and river fruits; and thousands of cars of manufactured articles are produced in the factories.
July 25, 1914 .- A new pipe line, to cost $4,234,685, and an oil re- finery are assured for Martinez.
August 1, 1914 .- Martinez lost the tide-lands case and thereby has no right or title to the municipal water-front. Suit was begun in Superior Court in 1911 against eighty or more defendants.
November 18, 1914 .- Russi & Sonner Flour Mills at Pacheco were destroyed by fire. The mills were about to be reopened after being idle several years.
Seven hundred cars of material are to be shipped to Martinez for building the Shell refinery.
December 24, 1914 .- The giant ferry, Contra Costa, made her first trip today.
A. B. Mckenzie resigns as district attorney to accept the position of superior judge, Department 2, that has just been authorized for Contra Costa County. This will save holding extra sessions of court when there is a full calendar.
The new library and reading room at Brentwood was opened to the public on January 5. Brentwood can claim the distinction of being the first town in the field to put up its own building. Entire credit is due the Library Association which was formed last February, with Mrs. Andrew Bonnickson at its head and an executive committee of earnest and pro- gressive women.
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1914 was a big year for the Martinez and Benicia Ferry; it carried 13,659 autos and 62,000 passengers.
The Lacy Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles has the contract for building forty-one steel tanks of 55,000 gallons capacity each, for the Shell Oil Company at Martinez. The work is to be completed by April 1.
The hull of the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern ferry boat Bridgit, which burned in the Mallard Island slip several months ago, has been lifted from the bay, and the entrance to the slip on the Contra Costa Mainland is now open.
On February 3, 1915, Antioch Lodge, L. O. M., was instituted with a charter membership of seventy-two.
On February 5 the Mountain Copper Company, Ltd., resumed opera- tions in its plant at Martinez. The plant will operate to fifty-per-cent capacity.
April 3, 1915, was Contra Costa County Day at the P. P. I. E., and all the county turned out, with over 400 automobiles in line and about 1000 people walking. The parade was over three miles long and went up Market Street, San Francisco, headed by the Richmond Band. Every town and every industry of any importance in the county were represented in the procession, as were also the schools. It was the greatest dedication day since the exposition opened and will be long remembered by those who participated.
April 10, 1915 .- The city of Martinez has made an appropriation of $50 per month to the Free Library, and it will be known as the Martinez Municipal Library. The appropriation is for the next ten months, and thereafter $30 per month, unless a tax levy is made to support the library.
On April 12, 1915, the Contra Costa County Bar Association was or- ganized at a meeting of the attorneys of the county held in Department No. 1 Courtroom. W. S. Tinning, of Martinez, was elected president ; J. E. Rodgers, of Martinez, vice-president; T. H. DeLap, of Richmond, secretary ; Leo F. Tormey, of Martinez, treasurer. Members of the executive committee : M. R. Jones, A. S. Ormsby, of Martinez ; and D. J. Hall, of Richmond.
April 24, 1915 .- A deal aggregating over $3,000,000 was announced today, when it became known that an Eastern syndicate had agreed to take over 30,000 shares of outstanding capital stock of the Giant Powder Com- pany at $110 per share.
The Richmond-Marin ferry service opened May 1 and 2 with a mon- ster two-day celebration. The first boat to cross from the Marin County shore to the Point Orient wharf was met by a welcoming committee. A luncheon was given and on May 2 the Richmond people were guests of Marin County at San Rafael, where a barbecue was held.
On May 15, the board of supervisors inspected the new addition to the County Hospital, which was erected at a cost of $30,000. The ad- dition gives accomodations to bring the total to 120.
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The Union Oil Company is increasing its capacity at Oleum and spending $25,000. They will build fifteen new storage tanks and increase the size of their wharf.
June 5, 1915 .- The Shell Company starts operating the American Oriental plant. G. W. Geear to be superintendent at Bull's Head Point. The Shell lease became effective Tuesday and fires were relighted, with all the American-Oriental force at their former places.
The Valley Pipe Line Company, of Coalinga, has started oil through the pipes to test the lines. There are eleven stations between the tank farm and Coalinga. The capacity of the line is 30,000 barrels every twenty-four hours.
The first auto party over the new Mount Diablo scenic boulevard, built by the R. N. Burgess interests, has reached the 2500-foot level, to which point the road is completed. There the inn and toll-house are to be built. The toll rates as fixed by the supervisors are : 2-passenger auto- mobile, $1.00; all others, $1.50; 2-horse vehicle, $1.50; 4-horse vehicle, $2.00; 6-horse vehicle, $2.50; individual persons, 25 cents; cow, horse, etc., 10 cents each ; sheep, 21/2 cents.
On Wednesday, June 8, the Antioch Paper Mills suffered a $50,000 fire. The entire stock of paper-making material was lost, in the destruc- tion of the rag pile.
The Contra Costa Free Library is the first library in the State which is in line for aid from the Carnegie Library Fund. The appropriation will be $2500; the city to contribute $250 each year towards its mainten- ance, which is the only condition.
The new $10,000 hospital erected by the Standard Oil Company, ad- joining its refinery at Richmond, will be officially opened on June 12 by the Contra Costa County Medical Society.
July 19, 1915 .- The Boulevard District election for commissioners was held in the two polling places, Moraga and Alamo; Arthur Burton, Edw. R. Williams, and Josiah Boucher were elected. The next step is to organize and lay out the course, which has practically been decided upon.
June 26, 1915 .- Stills are completed, tanks filled, and actual operation hinges on the completion of the power station, is the progress announced by the Shell Oil Company. The plant, as laid out, will give employment to 150 men, all skilled mechanics in their line.
The board of supervisors, on Monday, voted their intention of levy- ing a direct tax of 25 cents on every $100 assessed valuation of property for the next fiscal year, to start the building of public highways from the tunnel through the county to Byron.
Increase in assessed valuation of property from 1906 to 1915 :
1906
$21,590,845
1911
$39,700,914
1907
27,122,288
1912
42,631,665
1908
29,405,603
1913
47,731,341
1909
32,472,408
1914
52,204,930
1910
35,399,378
1915
54,488,451
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On July 12 an entire block of business places at Rodeo was gutted by fire; the loss was $25,000.
August 14, 1915 .- The third fire which has visited the Antioch Paper Mills has been burning two days, with a loss of over $60,000.
The most disastrous grass fire in the county was that of Tuesday after- noon, when 3000 acres of pasture and stubble in the Rodeo Valley were destroyed by flames. Hundreds of men were fighting the blaze. The Santa Fe sent a special train of fire fighters.
The supervisors on Monday awarded the contract for the construc- tion of the drawbridge over Pacheco Slough at Avon, and for pile trestling along the Martinez-Bay Point road, and for the first link of 3.01 miles of the permanent county highway from the tunnel to Bryant Station. The contract price is $35,625.75.
On September 4, 1915, an explosion occurred at the Hercules Powder Plant in Pinole, killing two men. Following is a list of previous explo- sions at this plant: July 27, 1892, nitro-glycerine house; four killed and nine wounded. May 21, 1894, nitro-glycerine house; five men killed. September 1, 1897, mixing and packing house; four men killed. May 3, 1899 nitro-glycerine house; two killed. June 4, 1904, gelatine mixing house; four men (2 Chinese) killed. Two small explosions in 1905; two men killed. July 1907, nitro-glycerine; four Chinese killed. Feb- ruary 1, 1908, quinine packing house and three cars of dynamite; four white men and twenty-three Chinese killed. September 30, 1909, nitro- glycerine explosion; four killed.
September 30, 1915. - This is the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Antioch Congregational Church.
On October 5, 1915, a business block in Brentwood was burned, caus- ing a loss of $20,000, to the following property: Tremley's Hardware Store, Peter Olsen's building adjoining, the residences of Frank Golden, Hercules Logan and M. Sargent, two barns, and the tank and tank-house owned by the Balfour-Guthrie Company.
The Contra Costa Gas Company's plant at Pittsburg, which supplies gas to Antioch, Pittsburg, Concord and Martinez, is being enlarged by adding a 20,000-cubic-foot storage tank and machines that will double the capacity. The plant represents a $200,000 investment. The main office of the company is located at Martinez.
January 27, 1916 .- Concord experienced a light fall of snow this morning.
February 19, 1916 .- During 1915 the Martinez-Benicia Ferry carried 78,895 passengers, 16,893 automobiles, 1183 motorcycles, 1439 teams. The directors of this corporation are W. H. George, J. J. McNamara, J. W. McClellan, H. Likas, P. B. Fry and L. V. Cooper. Total disburse- ments for the year, $18,666; received from all sources, $30,045.48; sink- ing fund, $4000.
The carly settlers of Contra Costa County, those men and women who came in the early days, held a reunion on February 23 at the home of
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Mrs. Mary Gilpatrick in honor of Mrs. J. H. Carothers, who celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday. Those present were:
Year Came
Year Came
Charles Lohse (age, 91 yrs.) 1849
Mrs. L. C. Wittenmyer 1865
Mrs. Jane E. Bennett 1852 Mrs. Caroline Brown 1849
Mrs. Hathaway 1853
Mrs. H. Hale 1859
Mrs. Leontine Blum 1859
Mrs. Manuel Taylor 1866
Mrs. C. Bower 1850
Mrs. Dora Ludden 1850
Miss G. Miranda 1851
Mrs. Charles Lohse 1850
Mrs. Margaret J. Kelly 1864
March 18, 1916 .- Contracts were awarded for a clubhouse, garage and cottages at Avon by the Associated Oil Company, at a cost of $38,000.
The Contra Costa Free Library was established on July 21, 1913. Work began on October 1 in a small room rented from the Martinez Free Reading Room Association. Mrs. Alice Whitbeck, librarian of the Richmond Public Library, was appointed librarian, with Miss Weyand as assistant. They started in a very small way a system that has been far-reaching in influence. Through the cooperation of Mr. Hanlon, coun- ty superintendent of schools, the majority of schools over the county are in close touch with and receive every benefit of the librarian and library. Miss Weyand resigned and Miss Hale was appointed assistant. Later Miss Coulter and Miss Halliday were added to the force. There were eighteen branches the first year and sixty-six in 1915. In addition to her library work, the librarian has given talks at schools and clubs in the various towns.
April 7, 1916 .- Charles E. Bibber was elected a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Concord to succeed J. D. Silveira, who re- signed. Mr. Bibber purchased Silveira's interest in the bank.
May 24, 1916 .- The Matson liner, Wilhelmina, yesterday completed her eighty-second voyage from Honolulu, bringing 119 cabin and 87 steerage passengers, 77,000 bags of raw sugar, 12,000 bags of refined sugar, 500 tons of molasses, 28,000 cases of canned pineapples, 3000 bunches of bananas, 650 cases of fresh pineapples, and 280 bags of cof- fee. The liner was docked at Crockett this morning to discharge the cargo of raw sugar.
June 24, 1916 .- The Gazette, always first with the latest, has secured the United Press News Service and is now the only paper in the county with direct wire news service daily.
July 15, 1916 .- The Tunnel Road is now open to traffic. Automobiles are allowed to travel the highway, the first time in a year.
On July 30, 1916, the new chapel of the Martinez Christian Science Society was formally opened and dedicated. Its seating capacity of 200 was filled. The chapel is located on Mellus between Las Juntas and Court Streets, and is of a Swiss bungalow type.
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The first Carnegie Library in Contra Costa County was opened and dedicated at Walnut Creek on August 22, with appropriate ceremonies. This is also the first library to be built, with funds obtained through the Carnegie Foundation, after the bungalow type particularly adapted to the needs of smaller places, where the cost of maintaining a larger building would be burdensome.
The Antioch branch of the County Library opens on September 16. The building was built with funds from the Carnegie Foundation.
September 17, 1916 .- Mount Diablo Parlor No. 101, N. S. G. W., unfurled the American flag on a pole forty feet above the peak of Mount Diablo, and 3849 feet above sea level. A staff built of cement and rock quarried from the flank of the mountain itself was dedicated to the "Pio- neers of Contra Costa County." Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Dean, of Brentwood, who came here in 1850, pulled the cord which released the flag. The flag was made by Mrs. J. H. Martin, formerly of Concord, and Miss Loretta Collins of Vallejo, and was presented to Mount Diablo Parlor. The staff from which it is to fly was built by W. H. George, of the Cowell Portland Cement Company, and was presented to Mount Diablo Parlor. The construction work was handled by H. B. Morey & Sons, of Menlo Park.
On September 30, 1916, the new Hotel Martinez was thrown open to the public with a grand ball. The hotel has been remodeled and rebuilt, and also refurnished, and is steam-heated throughout. On the roof a dancing platform has been built and provision made for afternoon and evening parties.
January 6, 1917 .- The six big realty companies with which B. Scha- piro and his associates in land development and promotion in Contra Cos- ta County are interested, have been consolidated into one holding com- pany known as the Contra Costa Realty Company. Articles of incor- poration are on file. The capitalization is $1,000,000, with the principal place of business at Richmond. The directors are: Ben Schapiro, R. R. Veale, J. E. Bouquet, F. A. Cascioni, H. A. Johnston, E. M. Downer and E. D. Armstrong.
January 13, 1917 .- In a lengthy opinion in the case of Henry Cowell Cement & Lime Company vs. the various ranchers in that vicinity, Judge R. H. Latimer holds that dust is a private nuisance and not a public evil. Thus comes to a close a suit which has extended over many years and cost thousands of dollars. The suit was filed in 1910 in the name of the people of the State of California vs. Cowell Portland Cement Company to abate a nuisance.
January 16, 1917 .- Alhambra Creek was frozen over at seven o'clock this morning for the first time in over twenty years.
March 3, 1917 .- The Union Oil Company is to increase the capacity of its asphalt and lubricating oil plants at Rodeo.
March 10, 1917 .- The first shipment of material arrived for the con- struction of Unit Three of the Trumble system at the Shell refinery.
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On March 6, the new ferry, City of Martinez, was christened as she glided down the ways at Pittsburg. As soon as she is fitted up she will be put on the Martinez-Benicia run.
March 17, 1917 .- The Associated Oil Company reclaims a sixty-acre tract near Avon for additions to the big plant. The addition will be for lubricants particularly.
The Standard Oil Company has purchased 100 acres of the Mizner estate and will at once begin the work of filling, grading and preparing for the extension of its mammoth plant at Richmond. When completed, the plant will be the largest of its kind in the world.
The California Cap Works at Stege were destroyed by a blast on March 12. Two Chinese were killed and three seriously injured. The explosion was caused by a Chinaman dropping a tray of caps.
The Associated Oil Company is preparing to operate the American- Oriental property. The lease held on the property by the Shell Oil Company expired some time ago.
The San Ramon High School was dedicated on March 10, when a large crowd gathered to witness the ceremonies.
March 13, 1917 .- Unusual precautions are being taken by the Shell Company in guarding its big refinery and tank farm at Martinez during these days and weeks of strained relations with Germany. A strict guard has been maintained ever since the plant has been in operation. Day and night guards patrol the property. No passes are issued except to em- ployees and persons whose business calls them to the plant.
Searchlights and machine guns will protect the Standard Oil refinery at Richmond. Sixteen giant searchlights, formerly used at the Exposition, have been secured; and 100 new guards have been put on.
April 7, 1917 .- Two tall towers on which will be mounted two power- ful searchlights, and which will be operated during the night and throw their powerful beams of light to all parts of the $5,000,000 refinery, will be in place in a few days.
Company B, 2nd Infantry, N. G. C., of Richmond, was mustered into Federal service at the Presidio in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon.
Twenty-three special deputy sheriffs were sworn in this week to guard the property of the Associated Oil Company at the Avon Refinery & American-Oriental works. The men were nearly all employees of the company.
Practically all the big plants on the bay shore are guarded. The Standard Oil at Richmond, Giant & Hercules Powder Works, Union Oil at Oleum, American-Oriental, Associated Oil and Great Western Electro- Chemical are guarded day and night by armed guards.
The Contra Costa County Council for Defense has been named by Governor Stephens. It includes Judge R. H. Latimer, Sheriff R. R. Veale, District Attorney T. D. Johnson, and J. H. Trythall, chairman of the board of supervisors. These will name three private citizens.
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April 28, 1917 .- A food-conservation mass-meeting was held in Mar- tinez and was attended by over 300 citizens from various parts of the county ; it was held under the auspices of the County Council of Defense.
The Concord business district was swept by fire, including the Concord Inn, Post Office, Mercantile Company, Bank of Concord, B. Neustaedter & Son, general merchandise, and the offices of L. L. Martin, D. D. S., E. E. Johnson, D. D. S., A. S. Sherlock, attorney, and Mrs. S. A. Fletcher, modiste. Nearby towns sent assistance, including Martinez, Antioch, Avon, Cowell, Walnut Creek and Oakland.
May 5, 1917 .- Judge O. Duncan, of Walnut Creek, first commis- sioned officer from Contra Costa County, was called to the colors as first lieutenant this week.
The Martinez Red Cross Auxiliary was organized, with 163 members, to handle the work in Martinez; chairman, W. H. Hanlon.
The veterans of the Spanish-American War stand ready, and members of Fitzhugh Lee Camp No. 9 pledged themselves to the Government, giving notice that they stand ready to answer a call to arms.
On his twenty-fourth birthday, R. W. Netherton, son of E. W. Nether- ton of Martinez, left Sunday to enlist in the aviation corps of the United States Army.
June 2, 1917 .- Following is a list of the Mount Diablo High School graduates : W. B. Bliss, Mary W. Bott, Joseph Brazil, Minnie M. Car- penter, Laura E. Dunn, M. L. Frandsen, F. Freitas, J. W. Graves, Mar- jorie Holman, Charles Jennings, Dorenda Maltby, A. K. Matheson, Clara M. Morken, Ida I. Myrick, Zelma I. Myrick, F. W. Neff, E. L. Parker, Julie H. Prettyman, J. A. Randall, J. J. Salazar, A. Sibrian, Ethel C. Smith, Beatrice A. de Soto, C. L. Thomson, H. H. Titcomb, Helen G. Welch, Hazel B. Wetmore and N. F. Wilson. This is the largest class to be graduated in the history of the school.
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