Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-01-31
Cost Of a Steamboat.


ka, is to be built at Stockton, to run between
that city and Sacramento, and carry pas.
sengers as well as freight 1t will cost
$4,000. The Stockton Republican gives the
following as her dimensions Length on
deck, 10 feet; breadth of beam, - feet;
depth of hold, feet; Cabin IS feet long
and twelve feet wide. The. engines of 20
borse power, will be built by Henry Ling,
at the Union Foundry in this city. Every
thing pertaining to this Steamer-Eureka--
will be furnished and manufactured by
Stockton mechanics, thus demonstrating that
our mechanics are inferior to none in the
country"
The citizens of Stockton, we presume have
adopted this plan to protect themselves
against extOrtion, and to insure Steamboat
communication with other Cities at all sea-
sons of the year. If Stockton, which has
always been favored with steamboat COM
munication with other places, deems such
measures necessary for the protection end
advancement Of her interests, how much
more important is it that OrOville should
adopt plan for the purpose of securing
steamer communication with Sacramento.
If a steamer to run between Stockton and
Sacramento, can be built for $4,000, it will
not cost over $4,000 to build such a steam
err as would be required to navigate Feather
River between Sacramento and Oroville.
Such a steamer would pay for itself the first
month of its existence. 1t would be felt by
every man in Butte County, by decreasing
the price of the necessaries and luxuries of
life-by increased business and consequent
prosperity Oroville can now build such o
boat as her wants require, if our citizens
will take hold of the matter with deter
mination to do so There is no other way
to secure steamer communication to Oroville,
and there is no good and valid reason why
other places, polling less number Of votes
than We do, and commanding the trade Of
no greater extent Of territory than Oroville
can, should outstrip US in enterprises SO
bcne fetal to their interests ard prosperity.
Shall we build the boat: Or continue to
pay monthly in tie way of freight and high
prices, what Steamer would cost Is there
not one hundred men in Oroville who could
contribute each one hundred dollars for
such purpose; or fifty men who would con-
tribute double that amount A single trip of
a steamer would benefit any one of our bu-
siuess houses nearly that amount.
While in Sacramento lately, We were con-
~, H..
He informed US that he had several times
examined the River from Oroville to Ma
rysville, aud that it was nayigable at all
seasons of the year for boats of light
draught, and that representations to the
contrary was the ''bug bear" of those in
terested in keeping 0royille in its present
dependent position
Marysville, not long since built two boats
to protect herself gninst extortion, without
bankrupting her citizens, and if the citizens
of Oroylie do not build one now, it will be
because they do not consult their own in
terests, and are willing TO pay tribute to
other places Marysville determined to be
free aud struck the blow Viii Oroville do
/ likewise3
New York VIGLANCE MOVEMENT. The
State Journal learns that C. p. Duane, VIM
Mulligan and others, former residents of
San Francisco, have formed a sort of Vigi-
lance committee in New York, the objects of
which are to pound every member Of the
rival institution of San Francisco that lands
in that city. 1t is also said that the COM
mittee in New York, being somewhat more
thorough in their operations than their ri
val in San Francisco, extend their attentions
to the relatives of the parties referred TO- a
brother of one Of them having been severely
mauled upon his arrival there The writer
complains that too many members of the n.
York Committee attack one individual, n
statement that no one would believe that
knows the pugilistlc skill OF Mulligan. Such
a manifestation of strength would have been
as unnecessary as the marshaling of three
thousand men with stolen muskets and can
non, for the respectable object of the MUIR
der Of two individuals that had a doz en- men
to protect them. The formation Of such
disreputable associations are deeply to be
deplored by the friends of law and order,
though it may be a poor rule that will not
work both ways We have yet heard of no
case of straugling on the part Of the eastern
committee.