Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

Two covers today, the first is from Eal in Humboldt county Calif. A registered cover to the county superintendant of Schools in Eureka. Franked with a 2 and 8 cent bureau, unless I remove them to check the presesence or lack of watermarks, I am unable to be sure.





The last cover for today is from Laytonville in Mendocino county Calif. Franked with a red 2 cent Washington (Unsure of it true identification) this cover was apparently over weight, as it also is marked Posage Due, paid by the postage due stamp below the postmark.

Never heard of Eal,CA Humboldt county. Do you have any more info on the place?

Hello Randy, I have no idea where in the county it was as I have very little on Eal other than what is in the Willaims book and Patera's Postmaster's Compensation which is;
Eal: Open 1st Aug 2 1889 and closed 1st Jan 15 1891 Edited, changed date
Open 2nd Mar 9 1891 and closed 2nd May 15 1900
Postmaster compensation Eal, Cal This compilation only reports odd year dates...
1891---$29.80
1893----50.05
1895----50.10
1897----72.13....A big year!
1899----54.03
The postmark on this cover is the only postmark reconized for Eal.
Really liked your Apr 6 1896 Scotia cover, what else are you hording holding? Just wait until the middle of July!

Something very strange going on with Eal,CA. Operated until 1991? Never heard of the place. No info anywhere on the net. A mystery. Anyone!

I think that's a typo. Should be 1891, not 1991.

You are correct, it was a typo, I've fixed it. I also can not find anything on Eal, Cal. on the web, even tried finding Eal on county maps of the period (1900), no luck! As the postmaster compensation shows, it wasn't a very large town.

Maybe info can be found about the sender Wm.W Rasberg? spelling? Probably a one store town with a Post Office along the Eel River that time has forgotten and never made it on a map.

Redwoodrandy, I emailed the Humboldt Historical Society, showed the cover and asked where it was located..haven't heard back yet, will let you know.

A postal card from Hoopa Valley is the only item I can show today, but I'll show both sides.

Forgot a Postal card yesterday, then discovered that I had also skipped a postal card back in April. Since they are both Addressed to Eugene Brown in Mendocino, I'll show them togather. Also thought that viewers would like to see the Westport Apr 3 postmark, truly stunning.. and early! Then to git back on track, I have a missent cover from Ukiah, Mendocino's county seat a some Official Navy business. Today's postal card is from a salsman advising that he would be in town in about a week.












The Williams postmark number of the three ring oval is Men 3990.
Reported usage of Men 3990 was from the EKU of Jul 11 1887 to the LKU of Jun 14 1889, 11 months. When reported my copy will move the EKU up 101 days.



This missent letter has no directives, it was just marked Missent, no other information. I have never read of either the town or the county. The state I have heard of.





Switching counties we move up north to the Loleta Naval Radio Station in time to catch today's mail leaving with a Navy Department Penalty envelope. A cost cutting rubber stamp made any envelope Official, as here the Navy Department Official Business was hand stamped as was the return address.

Would really like to have read the contents of this cover, addressed to the Imperial German Consul, from a lawyer up in Fort Bragg Cal. Was a foreign dignatary mis-behaving while visiting the Redwood Empire?

Another postcard mailed aboard Mendocino's only RPO, the Willits & SanFran. R.P.O.
Quite a handfull of ones in this date!

Wonderful story and stories held by your cancels and the writings attached.

The more in May dates you suggest(?) could be the beginning of good logging season maybe, after the spring floods perhaps, or good tree cutting?

Most of the logging took place all year long, with brief lay-offs during the rainy season, November to March. The logging companys used the rivers to move logs downstream during the spring freshlets. Another logging practice was the making of railroad ties, during time when they could'nt log big tiimber, crews of tie makers would process broken trees and logs into railroad ties, allow them to dry somewhat and haul them by wagon to a shipping point. No one ever seemed to think anyone would be interested in tie making as I have not found any postcard photo of the work. Lots of photos in the local histoty books though.
This is Iverson, a town/shipping point, that happened to be founded by and named after my grandmother's great uncle Nels Iversen.

Neat. Thanks for posting.

It's my pleasure! I love talking about the redwood empire and the folks who built it, especially when they're part of my family. Great great grand parents met in San Francisco, before 1860. Grandpa Samuel C. Hunter and his brother John were from Connecticut, and Sarah, her parents and siblings (15) came across the Pacific from Austraila! He was 16, she was 14, they met, married, and traveled by oxen cart up the coast and became established, all before registering in the 1860 Census. Still have quite a few family members living in Mendocino County.

http://www.cagenweb.com/lr/mendocino/mendo1860.htm