Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-06-22
The Honey Lay1xe Trim.

10 the Record of Saturday we left the
Honey Lake Pioneers Mt the place Of their
destination, and promised our readers that
we would relate the interview between the
Stage boys" and the Marysville Commits.
soners
About half way between Roop's and Las.
sons Ranch ohr pioneers met eight or ten
OF the Commissioners, among whom weer
Doctor Carr, George Thomas. Mr. Sweeney
and others The note book snys, they
didn't have much 10 say at first, but after n
short and sweet argument, Smeexy achnotcI-
edged { corn amt admitted the OrocWe
rodd 10 be the best, bat that IL ddnt sun
them as they ,canted a road to .MarusuiTe
dnVhotc" They afterwards qualified his
admission by saying they had found road
| over which they could make better time than
| our boys could make over the Orovile route,
whereupon Alex Brown pulled out the
"sponduIicks" aud offered to bet five hun
dred d"llars on the Oroville stage road
against he trail to MArysvillc, but they
saw he was in earnest, and " weakening'
said, 1--WE never bet" Alex. asked them
if they intended returning by the same
route they came, to which they replied,
No, it would not be policy" Bin Gamble
(who never "says no:hingD offered as his
opinion that if yon do 20 that way you
will break your ID uecks" "-eud 80 the
Commissioners seemed to think.
Old Pete Lrsson" who was with our
boys at the time, remarked very justly, ad-
dressing himself to the Commissioners,
"yOu may build n thousand rods gentle
men, but you emit possibly turn the immi
grant travel from the great natural ROAD to
Orovillc' " There's u opinion ns is opin-
ion,' for old Pete La>,on has been " thar
and tharabouts" for many long day, and
knows uorc about it than any other one
man.
DR. Carr snys the note book, "acknowl.
edged when at koops Ranch that ours was
the oniy ieAsibl, road, hut S,ouzg held out
against it, but it was no use, the others
couldn't c"nclrn'iously agree with them
They started off to find another road, (proh- |
ably the one by way Of Rabbit Greek and
our boys saw NJ more of them
Game was found in great abundance, anil
for two or three days the party employed
themselves in hunting and fishing. During
one entire night they were obliged to seek
IL, hall { hair hu "a
thunder storm The grass was 50 fine and
nutritious that the horses preferred it to bar
ley, and the climate is described rs being in
comparably beautiful
Honey Lake, which is about twenty five
mi es long and twenty in width, has no ap-
parent outlet, and is supplied by several
rivers aud creeks, which empty into it. A
large boiling sp,ing bubbles out on the
west side of the lake. aud several smaller
ones were found on the east side The water
il salt and very shallow, 81 shallow that the
for fish. During high winds The lake be
comes very rough, probably more SO than
otherwise being so shallow All the estrenms
running into it abound in trout, and mt Ger
tain seasons of the year, its surface is COW
cred with myrinds of ducks and gee-e.-
These facts were learned from actual obser-
vation, and from the accounts given by Mr.
Thompson. who has lived for some time in
close proximity TO the lake
The note book contains the particulars of
the return trip, which We shall furnish to-
morrow.
WIRES BRoKEN Communication was cut
off between Orovllle aud Marysvlle for sew