Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

Today all I have are two postcard postmarks, one from each county, Humboldt and Mendocino. I try to present these postmarks in alphabetical and chronological order, but these two won't cooperate. Alphabeticaly the town of Beatrice in Humboldt is before Elk in Mendocino, but the Beatrice card was mailed 3 year after the elk postcard was. Its never easy. On the other hand the Beatrice postmark is the LKU in the Willaims book.

Värnamo, Sweden 25 6 56 (June 25)

Charing Cross (London, England) 26 JU 1857 to Kingston Canada British America

It is so seldom that I have more than two postmarks to show, I stoppid looking at my postmark calendar list after finfing two postcards, so here is the cover I should have shown yesterday and the single postcard for today. Two Mencocino county items, both mailed in 1909. The Willits postcard does have a Laughlin postmark (Williams # MEN 1950) used as a reciever, a two for one card.

Two postmarks for the calendar today, an 1895 registered cover from Briceland in Humboldt County, and another Nugget from my gold mine lot of postcards, an Ellen H. Clapsaddle postcard postmarked Fort Bragg in Mendocino County.
Without lifting the stamps to check for watermarks I can't tell you if the Briceland cover is franked with three single unwatermarked Sc 254s or three of the 1895 issue watermarked 191 Sc 269, as they were both printed in the same basic color, but differnt hues. But will say that the cover was double weight, registry at that time was 8 cents. I'll also add that the last time I went through Briceland, I wouldn't have thought that the whole town could come up with 12 cents.

From the postcard lot that I bought from an Boyd decendent, My postcard goldmine, todays card again shows the thought that these people used when selecting the view side of the postcard, this time a Clapsaddle design celebrating the up comming Fourth of July, even if the card was bound for Canada. A beautiful card, even if Ellen didn't put enough stars on the flag, I count only 29 there should be 46.

Today I have an entire postmarked Rohnerville ( 26 Jan 1874 -- 30 Nov 1959) was Eel River Became a branch office of Fortuna. This was a busy office, 1875 being the lowest postmaster compensation paid at $282.22. In 7 days I'll show a very early Eel river, stay tuned!
Today's cover is postmarked with Rohnerville's fourth CDS, Williams # HUM-4370, a device in use for fourteen years, begining in Feb of 93. An easy to read CDS though it looks like the clerk tried to postmark this letter without re-inking the device.

A late entery, found it hiding it a postcard file. Yesterday's postmark, but a timeless pursuit..the postmark isn't very clear, but the card is dated in the message.

I have two postcards with today's date, both posted from Point Arena. The first is is just the postmark and the stamp, bought just for the postmark, the card has no local view. The second card was purchased for the view, as well as the postmark.

The local sawmill was eight miles up the Garcia River, in Ten MIle Canyon.Four miles further up river was the Point Arena Hot Springs, an early 1900 summer resort, where the spring is 111 degrees fahrenheit. I do have another postcard of the Hot Springs, but it is postmarked Aug 1st.

Happy Fourth Of July. I've only got one postmark for today. The 4th was a Thursday in 1907, guess Mendocino's postmaster wanted the mail to go out.
The view is typical of the coast in July, August, Sept, especially where a river empties into the Pacific. When the tempetures rise towards triple digits, the marine layer and fog is pulled inland. Just checked NOAA, temp at Little River airport (3 1/2 miles souteast of Mendocino) is 63*. The temp at Ukiah (34.5 miles southeast) is 97*. I know it has nothing to do with postmarks, but does explain the view.

Today I have a Columbian entire with a Lumber Company corner card, something not commonly seen on Mendocino county mail. Postmarked with (Williams #) MEN-660, Cleone's second postmark (of five)which is rated as scarce, the Williams book shows use from Jun 6, 1893 to Sep 18, 1894, this cover extends thst in use period to Jun 6, 1895. Nine months later than the LKU.Postmaster compensation for Cleone in 1895 was $63.51, or about 25 cents a day. Not an exceptionally busy office.

Today I have two covers with three postmarks. The first cover is from Humboldt county, a very early Eel River manuscript trancontinental cover on U27 (I think) with a manuscript Paid 7. The postmark is (Williams #) HUM-1470, Eel River's first postmark (of two)the Eel River office was open from Sep 4 1857 to Jan 26 1874 when the name was changed to Rohnerville. Williams lists an EKU of Jan 8 1859 and LKU of APr 28 1863. With no other postmarks, dating this cover is rather difficult. The 10 cent trancontinental first class letter rate ended on July 1, 1863, leaving four years this cover could have been posted;
July 7 1862 was a Monday
July 7 1861 was a Sunday
July 7 1860 was a Saturday
July 7 1859 was a Thursday
July 7 1858 was a Wednesday
I don't think that U.S. post offices were open on Sundays.




The other cover is from Fleetville Pa to Sterling, Whatcom Co, Wash Ter and is a little well worn, but does contain a 5 page letter, written by a mother to her daughter on one single page. Confusing? Mom folded the sheet in half, making four pages, she then turned the letter and wrote in what spaces she had left, I'll show what the page looked like before I show what it says. The last page is every thing written sideways and upside down.
























added missing page

Here's some history behind that letter to Mrs. Eliza Van Fleet of Sterling, Washington (Territory). Quite the intrepid traveler of her time:

http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/n...dar1928.html

Wonderfull link! Thank you! I've added page four or the Jul 7 1881 letter that I forgot this morning.
I have another letter from Fleetville, nine years later, and in it, Eliza's brother E.M. Farnham mentions the 3rd of May 1880, and a lot more. It's 6 pages and I think one is missing. These are out of that shoe box lot of covers I found at a flea market, back in the late 70's that I've mentioned before.

It's way early for this Nov 19 1990 cover, but is the other Fleetville cover and letter. The powers that be can remove this if they feel the need to, I'll repost in Nov.

The back of this cover has a Sedro, Wash postmark. Notice how long it took to arrive, even though it travled on a train. That is a railroad postmark, isn't it? SCRANTO????? TPA???










This is where I think a page is missing, subject wasn't complete on last page and the next page starts another letter. Maybe I should take a closer look at the ole shoe box lot, could be in new storage box that lot is in.

Two postcards and a cover with today's date. The first card is a view of earthquake damage in San Francisco. Since it was mailed over three years after the quake, was the card on the sale rack?

The second card was mailed 5 years later and has a view of the pocket and lath room at the Union Lumber Company mill in Fort Bragg. The Union Lumber occupied all of the ocean front property from Noyo River to Glass beach, which is the full length (south to north) of the city. As mill property, only employees were allowed on site, This last week-end July 4 2015, a new trail was opened allowing access to Fort Bragg's ocean frontage, not seen by the public in over 100 years.

The cover is an entire from Point Arena 1895.

Two covers and a RP PC with today's date in the postmark. The covers are from Humboldt county and the real photo post card is of Westport in northern Mendocino county, and shows us how the busy (at the time) shipping point of Westport looked in 1914.
The two Humboldt covers are both from very small towns, so small that I can't find either town on any Humboldt county map of the time period that these towns were active.
Acorn is Humboldt's first town alpgabetically so this postmark is numbered Hum-10. MAiled in 1901, it was the second biggest year financally for the Acorn post office, the postmaster earned $60.04

The next cover comes from Eal, this town has been very hard to find, I even emailed thedirector of the Humboldt Historical Society, and he didn't know where it was either! The sender of this cover is was a memer of one of the first white family to settle in Mendocino anf Huynboldt counties. The year is un-readable in the postmark, but the entire was issued during the 1890's, Eal's higest Postmaster compensation through the 90's was in 1897 at $72.13 Westport's compensation was a bit more, listings for 1895 was $282.74, for 1901--$271.35 and 1911, the last year listed was $440.00. With the postcard showing how large WEstport was, we can guess how small Acorn and Eal where.