Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-05-09
Wagon Road Convention.

This convention met yesterday in Marys-
Vile. The report of Messrs Gamble and
King, commissioners appointed by Marys-
vile to make an examination of the routes
from Honey Lake, is contained in yester-
days Express, and is highly favorable to
the route by the Big Meadows, and Butte
Creek, to Oroville. What action the con-
venton has taken, we are not at present
advised, but shall be agreeably surprised
if the representatives of different and ad-
verse local interests, who assembled in Ma
rysville on the 4th, forego the interests OF
toll-road-, toll bridges and localities, and
select the route best calculated to advance
the interests of the State, and afford the
easiest, most practicable. and shortest pas
sage through the barriers to immigration
which form the eastern boundary of tho
State.
A writer in the Marysville Express, who
signs himself "Citizen,' and processes to
speak from information obtained by the sur
vey of Mr. Goddard, says:
/ But the route that will combine the
, largest interest, and will do the greatest
; good to the greatest number, would be
from Rabbit Greek by Gibsonvilie. Nelson
Point, American Valley and Indiah Valley,
tie Honey Lake Valley"
This is monstrous, and citizen Is either
an ignorant ass, or an unprincipled impos-
ter, who would turn the weary immigrant
through mountainous country, and miles
| from his direct route, that particular local
tiles might prey upon his expiring throes
and fatten upon his exhausted stock as ii
drops by the mountain way-side. Has
'sCitizen" toll bridge, like our county
Judge, or toll-road, like Senator NJ Gee
to be benefited by the unprincipled imposi-
ton of mountain road upon immigration
1t is notorious that wagons carrying nearly
three tons weight, have passed over the
route via. Butte Creek, to Indian Valley
This being the case, the combined interest
that would turn the immigrant, at the latter
point on the route indicated by Citizen" Oh
on the mountainous route that leads t.
Senator Nj Gees toll road, and Judge Lew
is toll bridge, is that peculiar interest felt
by the wolf for the lamb.
But the object of Citizens" article ap.
pears to be to convince Oroville that it i.
for her interest to build the immigrant roaC
through the American Valley and Bidwell
to Marysvlle, for fear of building up a riva
town somewhere on the Sacramento river
as follows:
''Oroville claims it is the nearest route 70,
her, but look out, Oroville, where you Spend
your money, (you come near the foot hills
opposite Tehama. and within few miles OF
the Sacramento, or you may with your
money AKA By your folly, assist in building
up as formidable n rival &c.
This is precisely the argument made use
OF by the Butte and Plumas toll bridge ant
tol-road imposters, in order to induce The
citizens of these counties, to fence in thu
natural road and. build one for hundred
miles through the mountains. that they may
stand at their toll gates with their money
bags, and take his team when the immi-
grant happens not to have the God they
worship-''the Almighty dollar" Such
men as these should take few gallene Of
bad whisky, and locate beyond the noun
iains, where the immigrant expects to be
robbed and plundered. and where he de-
ponds upon his good rifle and steady nerves
for the protection of his person, his family,
and his property.