Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-24
Strange supIneness.

We are somewhat surprised 10 learn JhaJ
no stock has yet been subscribed by any of
the citizens of Marysville to the wagon road
enterprise between this place and Downie-
Vile Twenty thousand dollars have been
subscribed by parties outside of the city, who
can scarcely have as much real interest in
the road as our own citizens, and residents
of San Francisco even have pledged them
selves to take stock in it also Yet our Ma
rysville merchants, property holders and Lus-
mess men, who are directly and vitally inter
ested, have not moved, we believe, solitary
step in the business Thirty thousand dollars
more is all that is needed, and Marysyille
ought to be able to furnish that amount with
out any trouble 1t is well known, or
ought to be, that the original project was to
run the road from Downicville direct to-
wards Sacramento, thus leaving Marysville
entirely out of the enterprise or any of its
benefits, it being taken for granted, from the
indifference manifested by her to past efforts
of this kind, that she would take no part in
this; but, by the urgent remonstrances OF
some of our Yuba county citizens, who rep
resented that the citizens Of Marysville would
undoubtedly come up to the work, it was
agreed that the road should be laid out in as
straight line as possible to this city, joining
the Yuba Turnpike road already in measure
completed from this place to Garden Valley.
To have left Marysville out of this project
would have been a fatal blow to her best
prospects, for if she does depend upon any
thing ontside of herself it is her trade with
the mountain towns and rich northern val
leys Now, that she has an opportunity to
build up vast and fast increasing prosperity,
if she fails to do So she ought to be blotted
from the map of the State.
A great deOl is at this critical period de-
pending upon her prompt action The stock
holders of the Yuba Turnpike Company will
finish, without further help, their road from
Marysville to Garden Valley. Ten or twelve
thousand dollars more will put that road in
complete condition. All that is now to be
considered is the construction of a road
over the remaining distance from Garden
Valley to Downieville. As soon as this is
done, other parties on the east Of the Sierras
stand ready to construct a road direct from
Carson Valley and surrounding localities to
Thus we shall have wagon |
road communication, and of course an i'm
mense trade, not only with Downieville, very
nearly the richest mining town in the State, |
and demanding large supplies of all kinds of
goods, but with the fertile agricultural pas
toral and mineral valleys of Carson, Honey
Lake, Washoe, Beckwiths, Sierra, Truckee
and numerous smaller valleys lying
in the spurs of the mountains A road from
Carson Valley to Downieville is entirely feasi-
bic, pass having been discovered between
he north branch of the south fork of the
North Yuba and Sierra Valley, which is at
east 1900 feet lower than any of the passes
ormerly discovered.
Such is the outline of this great and i'm
1ortant enterprise. With proper exertion,
he road from here to Downieville can be fin
shed by the first of July next Immediate
Ipon its completion, it will commence pay
ng liberal percentage upon the money in
vested, (at least per cent? to say nothing
IF the continual stream of wealth which it
will pour by mems of trade and travel into
he lap of Marysville. We would then have
III the trade that goes to Downieville and
,ther mountain towns 0or intersecting roads
rom all quarters of the mountains would
be the consequence instead of having as we
now do only part at all seasons, and in some |
seasons scarcely any, In sthe meantime our
railroad to the Bay would be progressing
rapidly, Gor we have assurancns, amounting
well llnigh to a certainty, that it will go ahead,
if capital can carry it forward) and by the
time the road to Downieville would be done,
or nearly by that time, ears would be rum
ming between this city and the Sacramento
river, in the vicinity of Smiths Crossing.
There is no doubt but that money is in this
wagon road business, and they are the wise
men who first embark in it.