Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-05-30
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at convention held in this place, on the
23l inst resolution was passed condemn
ing in strong language, the action Of the
Marysylle convention Of the 4th Of May.
That resolution was in the following words;
ReS0iued, That this convention views with
adherence and Indignation, the attempt OF
the Marysville convention to speculate upon
the wants md misfortunes of the emigrants,
by recommending IA route for wagon road
which is incapable of being made prac'ica.
bic, and which is selected only because it
COMFORTS best with personal speculations.
The editor of the Marysville Herdld, in
commenting upon this resolution gets very
angry, and in losing his temper, replies to
the charge so distinctly made, by misrep-
resentation as absurd as it Is contemplate
lie does not meet the fact, by an array OF
counter facts, il any such exist, but like II
petulant schoolboy, endeayors to destroy its
force, by accusing the committee, Of false
hood and ngratitude. Here is his language
"The false and mean insnuations con
tanned IN the above. come with very bad
grace from IA town which owes its p esent
position, i not It's very existence to the capt.
talists Of Marysvlle. But for the energetic
business men Of this place, who have ex-
pended their labor and money on the Oro-
willie ditch, that town would have been Of
comparatively little Importance
In another place in the same article he
calls the resolution san uHgeHHemaniU
.ftng at .HarysrHe." Now il Mr. Luil will
+ul. no noo1 tho f,ra.tnl Lie
and resolutions, he will do our committee
the justice to admit that there is not one
word, in the whole proceedings, which can
be construed into an attack upon the city Of
Marysvile The resolution condemns the
action of the convention which assembled
at .Naty>riHe, not Marysville herself; and
if we have been rightly informed, that con-
vention contained representation from
several other counties besides Yuba.
The pitiful boast that 0roville owes all that
she is, or can ever hope to be, to Marysville
spectators in ditch property, is laughablc
in the highest degree. SO far as the bitches
about Orovile are concerned, we acknowl-
edge that they have been of some service to
the town, but that service has been more
than compensated to the Marysyilie specu-
lators, by paying them better interest on
| their capital than they could get at home
Aside from this it may be proper to remark,
that Orovlle does not depend on bitches for
support. She is more eligibly situated for
trade than any other interior town in the
State, and must ere long leave even .Nye'S
Ranch in the distance. She sets up no ri
valry with Marysville, for when the little
! Ynba is dried up, and the great Haun House
is sold for taxes, when the "grinders shall
cease because they are few, and the monrn-
ers 90 about the Streets" then will Orovile
still sit sentinel at the head Of navigation
on the Feather, and extend her suburbs to
| the base of Table mountain. She will even
afford an asylum to the scattered tribes Of
Nye's Ranch, and will gracefully receive
editor of the Herald himself
But the selection of good Immigrant
Wagon Road, does by no means resolve it
self into n quarrel between Oroville and her
/ tributary at the mouth of the Yuba. Our
citizens have u much higher end in view
than the mere question of set-nterest. We
are all aware that the interests of 0rovlle
would be best promoted by opening up the
Plumas trade ria Bdwel to the American
Valley. But that object is n distinct one
from the Immigrant Road. The one great
question at stake with us, is, which is the
best route' We have derived our most re-
liable Information on that subject from two
citizens of Marysville, Messrs Gamble aud
King, and until their report shall be super
ceded by more authentic data, we shall still
insist on the route advocated at our conven-
ton on the 23d instant,
That we have done the Marysvilans no in
Justice in attributing their action to inter.
ested motives we are perfectly willing to
leave to Mr.. Lull himself From an edito-
rial in the Herald of Thursday, We make
the following extract:
"On the Hpmbug and Fences Ranch
route, although the road can be easily con-
structed, the population is exceedingly
sparse, there being IN y. distance OF forty
miles but two or three houses When this
section of country shall have been suthcIent-
ly settled, there is no doubt n road will be
built, bat at present the most :slslo1e end