The Nevada journal., 1853-09-30
Sacramento to DOWnieVilIe via.
Nevada.

brought down upon US our dog in the manger
neighbor of the Express We are so familiar
with its ideas upon this subject, and so are our
readers, that we -need not give much space to
them. The Express however pledges" Marys-
vile to furnish two-thirds of the means nee
essary for the construction of the plank road
next spring. The pledge is one of a series, and
is utterly worthless. The Marysville committee
also pledged that that city would, with the
least encouragement, go on and build the road
ITSELF the past season. The E1preSs over and
over again, gave similar pledges. But when
the matter came to the list Of formal subscrip-
tion,7 MarysyiHe backed completely down, gave
the lie to its pledges, and fixed a stain of dis
grace upon itself in the eyes Of this county that
it will take something besides pledges to wipe
out ALarysvile, on the assertion of its people
and press was fully able to build the road the
past season. Look at Sacramento, said they,
impoverished by food and fire, bankrupt in
funds and credit, what can it do? Listening to
its promises to the ear, but broken to the hope,
committee of our first citizens even proceeded
to Marysville to form a company to carry out
the project, and failed to get even half dozen
men in Marysville to come to meeting for the
purpose of bare organization. The hundreds
of thousand dollars pledged dwindled down to
twenty thousand and the committee were in
sultingly neglected and forced to return.
H. tho raoY1lp Of n NpIada oF
making the road speculation. We know not
to what it refers unless to the price of lumber
asked by our mills The price agreed upon by
the mills was $50 per 1000 feet. Lumber has
never been less here than S40;and at that time
was worth much more than the price asked
But Marysville was told if it would raise all
the capital in cash, with such help as Nevada
county was able to give in that way, it could
then screw down the mills in the price of lum-
Der all that it was possible. 1t would then be an
open play. The talk Of the Erpress is the aimsi-
Iesfexcuse possible for Marysville losing gol-
den opportunity through its own folly and care
lessness, that 1t can neUer regain!
The E1press makes fling at us as changing
in our opinions as to their road. We defy it
to put this in more tangible form than an
inuendo We have always said the Sacramen-
to road was the best to Us for commercial pur-
poses, and when we agreed for a season to the
Marysville road it was only because Sacramento
could not help much to build its road. If it
csn find anything inconsistent with this in our
columns for the past two years it is welcome to
its differences.
The ErpreSS says, in reference to the bene-
fits to Nevada from the Downieville road -
" In making the above calculation, it is bare
ly possible that the Journal overlooked the fact
that the easiest, cheapest, and most expedious
way of reaching Nevada, is through Marysvilie,
a circumstance which initiates strongly against
the former becoming rival of the latter city,
but the view taken by our cotemporary has as
much force as any that could be urged in favor
of Sacramento as the point of trade for Nevada,
in opposition to Marysville."
Such a fact does not exist at any period of
the year. That paper has no conscience to I'M
ply such thing at this period of the year when
the merchants of Marysville are now paying
$40 per ton for merchandise, while those of
Sacramento only pay IS on steamboats, and S.
in sail vessels, and travel is very uncertain on
Feather river, though the water is deeper by
six inches than it was in 1850 Our merchants
ceased buying goods in Marysville early in the
spring, and freight is as cheap from Sacramento
as from Marysville.
In seeking to build up our own city we do
not necessarily do injustice to Marysville. If
we do we are as excusable as the ErprcSs can be
in endeavoring to build up Marysville at the
expense of Sacramento. We can demonstrate
the advantages to Nevada county of the estab-
lishment of this great route from Sacramento
through Nevada, and as good citizen and as
owing duty to the region that gives us lib
eral support, we shall labor for its interests. 1t
would please us to be out of the range Of the
petty jeaousies of the Express, but as it is, we
can only placidly say, in the language of the il
lustrous Squibob, ifthe Express is boiling with
Indignation, boil on"
England is so deeply engaged in manufactures,
that she brings large portion of her bread
stuffs and provisions, as we'll as the raw material