Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-21
Rnnd 10 Dn,HnInvIIle.

We published a communication, the other
day, from Peter Rice, Esq, on the subject of
the above road, which doubtless received, as
it deserved, very general attention at the
hands Of citizens of Marysville and the coun-
ty generally In another column will be
found a notice of a meeting to be held at
Goodyear's Bar, on Wednesday the lst day
of December, for the purpose of prelimina-
ry organization of company to be termed
the Sierra Turnpike Company" the Object
OF which is mainly to construct II road from
Downieville in Sierra county to Garden Val.
ley IN Iuoa county, thus opening communi
cation tor the largest-elass mountain wagons
at nearly all seasons, between Downieyile
and Marysyille. This movement, We should
apprehend, would be well supported by the
merchants and business men of this CITY,
The advantages of such communication are
too obvious to need enumel alton. They
must suggest themselves at once to every
man of ordinary business capacity. The
feasibility of the projected enterprise and the
attendant expense are the only points to be
considered. In regard to the first, it seems
from actual survey, that the heaviest grade
| ou the route between Downeyile and Gar
den Valley is only one foot to the rod a fact
which at once demonstrates, as Mr.. Rice says,
that superior road can be made between
the points named to that which is already
constructed between this city and the Ore
gon House. And, in regard to the matter of
expense, it cannot be anything very terrific,
for the reason that labor is at this time very
cheap and the work easier at this season of
the year than any other, the ground being
soit and therefore more readily dug up. The
contractor buying his own provisions by
Wholesale and furnishing them to his hands
at wholesale prices, need lose nothing by
the operation, while his hands cannot COM
plain of him for furnishing them at the same
prices which they would have TO pay else
where. Certain it is, that the bid for the
contract will be much lower, if the work is
to be commenced at once than if it is to be |
delayed until the extreme dry months. But |
whatever may be the expense, the road
should be built, for the interests of this city |
and county imperatively require it,
1t will be seen, by reference to the notice
of the meeting, that it is proposed to con
struct branch which shall connect with the
Emgrant Road through the celebrated Hen
ness Pass Route, and this will bring at once
into our own section of country full tide of
emigration across the plains. Besides, it will
secure for this quarter of the State those
Overland Mail facilities which it should at
once have, and which would be of untold ad- |
vantage to every portion of this community
and, in fact, the whole North. We should
not be blind to these great and to us truly
momentous considerations in a business point
of view Every dollar, it should be remem
bered, which is expended in a work like this,
will come back to him who expends it in
creased a thousand-fold
There is no reason why Marysville should
not have the oChote Of the trade of all the rich
mining localities with which this road would
bring us in contact. The work finished, and
the Railroad completed between this point
and Vallejo, Marysville would indeed bound
forward in the path of prosperity, and her
wealth and commercial Importance be csta5-
ished upon immovable foundations.