EUREKA
February 2, 1929: "Hearty endorsement of the proposed Eureka airport was given Monday night by the board of directors of the Eureka Chamber of Commerce at their meeting held in the Eureka Inn. The board named a committee composed of Ritchie Woods, L.E. Perske and Walter Coggeshall to cooperate with the committee composed of Mayor A.W. Way, John R. Clements and Dayton Murray in the drive for an airport. Way and Murray were present at the meeting. The committee will make a survey of the needs of a field, the cost of the project, and the proposed Redwood Empire Airlines route to Eureka. An investigation will also be made of the proposal of the Richfield Oil company for the construction of a large beacon and service village. The W.P. Fuller company through A.B. Chase, local agent, has offered to donate paint for the placing of a large sign on the top of a building directing pilots to an airport." (Blue Lake Advocate)
April 5, 1929: "It is stated that it is probable that one of the huge airport beacons erected in various parts of the coast by the Richfield Oil Company will be installed in Humboldt in the near future provided the negotiations now being carried on for the establishment of an adequate Humboldt county and Eureka airport on the Devoy lands north of Eureka are carried through to completion." (Ferndale Enterprise)
December 30, 1929: "Incorporation of the Humboldt Flying service as a $75,000 firm has been encompassed with the intention of making Murray field here one of the finest aviation fields in the state.
Immediate expansion of the flying field which has been in use by the Humboldt Flying service since March 28 of this year, an increase in the flying school facilities, acquisition of a long-time lease on the flying field property, installation of a $65,000 Richfield Oil company beacon and a gasoline and oil service station, together with the establishment of an aviation transport service in the spring, are the goals of the organization." (Healdsburg Tribune)