Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-12-23
Bolstering UP Kirk.


many unprincipled but successful applicants
for eiiicial position, have of managing pub
lie affairs for their own or sectional aggran-
dfzement, has become an 'irtolerable evil
and nuisance, that the outraged people of
the State should no longer submit to'in ST. /,
lence. The moment the evil is denounced r
the selfish, local and unprincipled delinquent
is Immediately sheled by corrupt press
whose particular locality is to be benefited
by his operations, or whose friends are TO,
secure fat contracts by his recommendations /
Those who have the power to abate the evil,
are thus deceived into endorsing those who
have used their official position to the adj
vantage of their own particular locality,
and in accordance with their recommends
ton fat contracts are giving to their friends,
the profits arising therefrom is divided
among host of political spectators, and
the appropriations designed for the benefit
of the State ut large, is squandered to build
Up particular locality, regardless of the
purposes fcr'wbich appropriations are made.
This is undoubtedly the plan of operations
marked out for the disposition of whatever
appropriations may be made for the con
struction of an immigrant road into Cali
fornia Indeed, the first part of the pro-
gramme has been already enacted by Kirk,
in his survey and location Of the road, and
it is only necessary for the vermined press
in his employ to uphold his location and sur
vey, hip changing the route to Carson Val
ley, and his untounded and prejudicial Ii
bells upon the Honey Lake route. to complete
the plunderiag programme, locate the road
through the vast deserts that surround the
poisonous waters at the sink of the Hum
boldt, build up'a particular locality to the
detriment of other portions of the State. and
feather the nests of huugry-swarm of de-
signing and corrupt politicians.
If the Federal authorities at Washington
desire to further such scheme as this, they
will endorse the survey and recommenda-
lions of John Kirk, and believe the nta
nous libels he utters against the Honey
Lake route, even while the lowing herds
and growing crops of the husbandman, at
test their utter falsity and malciousness
The case stands thus: Government
makes an appropriation for the survey of a
wagon road from the Missouri river to the
eastern boundary Of California at or near
Honey Lake, and appoints ohm Kirk super
intendent of the western division. Mr.. X.
residesin Placerville, where the road cannot
come fit goes to Honey Lake, the point
designated by government. But Mr. Kirk
wont 60 to Honey Lake without going thro'
Placerville, and fitting out his train at Sac
ramento, spends months time and labor,
to the great destruction Of his stock, to
build road on theJ ohnson cut. off ms, cad
of repairing blythe nearest and natural and
perfectly natural and eligible route to the
point where his}abors were to begin Eav-
ing thus built road with government funds
through that portion of California where
his interests lay,,h leaves his heavy wagons
and proceeds with the lighter ones, along
the eastern base of the mountains to Honey
Lake, the initial point-of his operations
Here he commences q survey extending
to City Rocks, and returning,
runs another survey to the johnson cutoff, |
sustaining the latter by infamous Ii bells upon
the Honey Lake section 1T is necessary
Tor his acts to be endorsed, in order that
government may change the location of the
road to Carson Valley, and award the con.
tract for its construction to those who are in |
interest with him 1T is thus attempted by |
The anonymous correspondent of an obscure |
paper (the Globe published at extraordna.
y cheap rates, amid the political iniquities
If San'Ffascisco We.fnd it copied in the
sacramento State Journal. 1t thus en-
lorses the se1ishschemes of Kirk s. Co:
81 have it from the most undoubted and |
'eliable source-a gentleman high in official
position here and whc-:s above shielding a
that "the Secretary of the inte-
Tor expresses himself thoroughly satisfied |.
With the course Mr.. Kirk has pursued with
lis accounts-with his location of the road
With the few animals he has lost; and fur
her, that he holds him in such high estima-
l0n, that he (the Secretary ),regrets that he I
iid not know his worth earlier so that he
night have conhded a more important trust
TO him"
The People of northern California owe il
70 themselves, and to the future immiora.