Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

Two covers, both covers from
Eureka,



Eureka, Registered.

A Halloween card from Korbel. Town built by the Koebel brothers, same brothers who made brandy down along the Russian River in Sonoma County. After housing the Arcata & Mad River RR roundhouse for ten years, they decided to apply for a post office.

Five today.
Willits,



Ukiah,



Ukiah,



Willits & San Fran RPO, an early one. Year date is hard to see, it's 1903.



Loleta,



and Arcata & Elinor RPO,
This RPO ran concurrently with Willits & San Fran, was lengthened (5 miles) and name changed to Arcata & Dyerville (Jun 24 1914--Jul 17, 1815), before Willits & San Fran. finally connected on Oct 23 1914, changing it's name to Eureka & San Fran. on June 17, 1915.
It took 14 years to lay track the 147 miles from Willits to Eureka.
Arcata & Elinor,



Edit, added year date to Willits comment.

Three postmarks today. Thought that it was four, but mis-cataloged this Hopland cover as the 28th, instead of 5 days ago,
Hopland, for the 23rd.



Out of the mails via Wells Fargo from Ukiah,



A double weight up rated PSE, Registered, from that town I can't pronounce.
Weitchpec,



And a North Pacific Coast RPO, Cazadero & San Fran., the narrow gauge

A single postcard today from Little River in Mendocino County.

Three today,
Punta Arenas was the First Post Office opened in what would be Mendocino County on Jun 2 1858, Name Americanized to Point Arena on Jan 9 1889.
Quarantined!



Arcata, HUM-225
This postmark was not published with the rest of California Town Postmarks 1849-1935. Fortunately the Western Cover Society allowed for missed postmarks and provided additional spacing for (10) missing catalog numbers. The group of 1890's to 1899 Arcata postmarks are all very similar, finally found the telling difference in the width of the Town name and State abbreviation.



Arcata HUM-225,



and a postcard from Willits.

Just two postmarks this morning,
Hardy,



and a card from Mendocino.

Busy day with seven postmarks to show.
A postal card from Eureka,



Willits, not the expected address for this publisher. Where?



Eureka, Revere House apparently added to the mail stage's bag on the way out of town, receiving the Way mark at San Francisco?



China Flat,



Fort Bragg,



Duffey, 18 miles east of Fort Bragg, along the California Western RR. Mail transported by train, but not RPO.



and Carlotta.

Missed two!
Willits & San Fran. RPO,



and Elk.



I think that there are only three postmarks for today.
The first of them is the Willits & San Fran. RPO predecessor, Ukiah & San Fran. RPO, this strike about twenty-six months before the Willits depot was opened.



Caspar,



and Eureka.



Edit: Corrected emoji, was [:o), missing ]

Two this morning.
A Registered cover from Hermitage. A very late use of HUM-1640 (the manuscript cancel) as the Williams book California Town Postmarks 1849-1935 records an Apr 7,1892 early use and a Sep 25 1899 late use for HUM-1650.



and Fortuna.

Two this morning,
Marysville, Paid by Stamps cancel Nov 4,1857
Surprised by the lack of reported examples of this cancel (YUB-870) in the Williams book, California Town Postmarks 1849-1935. The book shows one date for the early use and an * estimated date for the late use date.



and Fairbanks.



Spelling.

Back with three more postmarks.
Duffey, some of the not RPO but train carried mail along the California Western (Skunk) RR's line.



Arcata,



and Eureka & San Fran. RPO

Five postmarks today,
Mendocino



Orleans, Registered



Somoa, yes, still in Humboldt County, Cal. The cover has a couple of Redwood related corners. Humboldt also has a Trinidad.




Christine,



and Willits.

Four today, beginning with Eureka's first commercial post marker. The Williams book California Town Postmarks 1850-1930 lists a manuscript cancel as Eureka's first postmark, HUM-1620, but lists only one date, Nov 18, 1853. This postmark is Hum-1630, a double circle mark (32.5 30.5 3L) which Williams & the Western Cover Society recorded used between Apr 4, 1856 and Nov 13, 1858. This one could be earlier or later, no other marks on the cover.
Eureka H Bay,



Calpella



Willits & San Fran. RPO.
A variety, which the Mobile Post Office Society catalog says does NOT exist. And yet, of the 65 strikes of Willits ( and Willets, 15) I have, 11 of them are this "non-existing" variety.
Seen from 1903 to 1914, they are 16.9% of my total. The 15 985-T-1s make up 23.4% of that total.



and Eureka & San Fran. RPO, same train track, just 23 years later.

Three today.
Mendocino,



Ferndale,





and Eureka.



Edit; a typo