Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-02-13
the BRIDGE OF SIZE.
A TALE.


And proudly scorned to whifiei
And Savage run his swiflest pace,
But couldn't make the rifle.
Perhaps the narration Of events which is
to follow, will be regarded as superfuou',
the description contained in the above poesy
being briefly true history of the entire
transaction; but in justice to the subject W,
will proceed to be more minute, and lay the
details OF the controversy between the
Bridge of Size as represented in the judicial
Joe, and Savage and the Cphirites, as per
sonated by their proctor
As we have her etofore remarked, the pow
ers had convened to perform their various
functions--t to heal the SICK aud All up ruts
and holes upon the road, and mend their
own and the county's ways, and listen to the
voice Of lawyers.
The sick had been provided for, the holes
and rats had been filed up. with wheels
highways had been been adjusted,--all but
one-and the voice of lawyers had been heard
t all but two,-when the gathering host,
on either side the Bridge, told of the near
approach of battle, the end of which was to
decide the fate of Savage. First and fore
most in the fight, clothed in a panoply of
brass, and supported and stimulated by a
draft from the hands of John the chain
bearer, came the undaunteG Joe, pale with
excitement Next came the Savage hosts,
who, eager for the fray, were marching on
as they supposed to victory; but all unseen
and hid behind the Bridge lurked Joe and
his army.
BY the foregoing metaphor we intend to
convey to Thereafter an idea of the way
things were arranged about the time when
Savages second application was made to the
powers who possessed the right to give or
withhold the license he sought.
With arguments and legal SIX i'll, did he
who represented the Savage cause, place be-
fore the lawgivors his clients case but the
Ophirites, who wished the ferry granted,
and those who delved within the bowels of
the earth, and all who damned, and cursed
the rivers, withheld their promised aid, and
to make it manifest by the chart that John
the chain bearer had made, and the appar
| emily "hard road to travel to the Junction.
and the few supporters standing up with
Savage, that the Bridge of Size, and the
ferry that stood in placid water, were all
the mountain road the commonwealth re.
qulred, and the powers that sat in conclave
gave heed unto Joe the Jurist's sayings and
knocked our Savage endways, and likewise
extracted his irrevocable bung," greatly
as we conceive, to the injury of Ophir and
the country round about.
When the Ophirites heard these things
they wondered; and then they said
said they "knew it would be so )" and after
that they grew wrathful withal, and angrily
questioning, Intercepted one another, say
ing, d" who is this Joe that he should rule us
with a rod of iron' and L" how long shall
this man reign over us" Moreover they
cursed the Bridge of Size and the ferry by
its side, and Bob, and George, and the two
Joes.
Now. all this while, the Ophirites and the
Flatites, and all they who said they were
friends of Savage and desired his ferry to
be made, forgot that they, his righlful allies
had forsaken him in his hour of need, and
permitted him to go without their seeming
sanction and support, and all alone to wage
war with the army of the Bridge.
Proud of his victory, proud of his bridge,
with lawsuit hanging over it, proud of
his three partners, and proud of his delight
full farm hard by the Junction, Joe the Ju-
rist laid him down upon his couch and
dreamed again as once before we've told
And so vel let him rest awhile; but rumor
says--and rumor seldom lies-that Savage
is still unconauered, and that when pro-
per time shall come, he'll 'get his wind, and
then sail in again." and that he may sue
coed, is a consummation devoutly to be
wished, and if he does " sail in again." let
him be helped with substantial aid from the
0phirites
To be fashionable, and act in concert with.
onr ootempcraneoss romancers, We shall
herewith close our tale by giving oar anxious
readers notice that this. our frst volume,
will one of these days be followed by "a Sc
suel," or something of the sort, but in the