Butte record., 1856-12-06

about venturing within the possibility
of a law suit, and thus many who
would otherwise come here with the
of remaining, are kept away
and waiting for a final settlement Of
the question of title.
The TELEGRAPH is at present a
subject of considerableinterest III the
northern portion of the State. and 1t
is quite probable that Oroville may
be connected with the capitol city
prior to the assembling Of the Legisla-
ture. The success of the undertake
ing between this point and Marys-
vile, has given an impetus to tele-
graphic operations, and efforts are
being made to extend the line from
hence to Shasta, and, ultimately on
to Oregon. Mr.. J. E. Strong, for
merly connected with the Alta Tele-
graph Co., is now in the vicinity Of
Shasta for the purpose Of efectlng
arrangements for it's construction to
that point. noticing this fact, the
Sacramento Union and Alta Califor-
mia, speak in high terms of Mr.. S. as
being man every way worthy of the
confidence of that section. We pre-
sumo these papers speak unwittingly
of Mr.. Strong-that they have fol-
lowed the course of newspapers in
general, and knowing Mr.. Strong was
formerly connected with the tele-
graphic operations of the State, have
endorsed him to the people of north
ern California. We are surprised
that the Union should have fallen in
to such an error. We have it from
authority perfectly reliable, that Mr..
Strong was discharged from the Alta
Company for appropriating the pro
ceeds of said line to his own use and
not accounting for the same. He is
the same man who destroyed an ar
ticle of agreement between himself
and Mr.. VIM. Gwin, by which the
latter lost $4,000. He is the same
man who swindled the citizens of To-
wa Hill. Yankee Jims, Georgetown,
and other towns in that section, by
building branch line from CoIoma
to Iowa Hill and representing said
line to be an extension of the Alta
line, when he was the sole owner of
said line, and had mortgaged the
same to Mr.. Pratt, of Georgetown,
for 81 ,100, which line was after
wards sold for said debt. An account
of this was published in the Iowa
Hill News, at the time, of which
many will remember. We are not
surprised at the Alta California's
endorsement of Mr.. Strong, but that
the Union should not be better posted
is matter of some surprise. That
paper is usually heavy on statistics,
and the antecedents of politicians,
and should not overlook facts so noto-
rious as those concerning Mr.. Strong.
Does the Union feel like furnishing
the people of the northern counties ?
OF Course we do not wish the
Marysville Express to understand us
as being opposed to bridge across
Feather River at Marysville, and in
favor of bridging the river at Sacra-
mento. We are opposed to BOTH
Such distractions should not be erec-
ted over nayigablc streams. We are
also aware that the Legislature had
declared Feather River navigable
onlv q its junction with the Yuba.
Tn at that time no necessity
for ma eating the River above Ma
rysville, as there was no point above
there of sufficient Importance to re-
duire a steamboat. The failure to
navigate the River above Marysville
in 1850, is thought, hereabouts, to
have been occasioned by the people
of Marysville paying $4,000 for
the failure" There is necessity
now for declaring the River naviga-
Bile to Oroville, and we shall expect
the next legislature to do so. If the
Yuba bridge is no obstruction to the
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