Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-03-06
The Iron Trail Of Electric Thought.

Inc Iron ArHn OIL EIectr1c Thought.
We are going to have Telegraph. Mr. Hub
bard, of the Northern Telegraph Company, is
here, and be informs us that the connec ton be-
tween Red Bluffs and Oroville will be complet-
ed within thirty days then the workmen will
commence north of Shasta, and will have CON-
pleted the line to Weavervile by the first of
May. The wires and other materials have arriv-
ed everything is in readiness, and the work is
going on vigorously. The Board of Directors
abandoned the original design of following the
Sacramento River route they now intend to
build the Telegraph through Weaverville, Trini-
ty Centre, Scott Valley and Deadwood, to Yre.
ka. This conclusion was in compliance with the
request of stockholders in Trinity County. 1t
was wise conclusion, and it will secure the Com
pany the cooperation Of people on this side, who
must have been Indifferent about the success of
the enterprise, had their decision been otherwise
Considerable stock had been subscribed in this
county the first and second nstalments are now
due a large amount has been paid TO the con-
tractor, who is now here, and who will remain
TO complete the collections. 1t is earnestly de-
as not to delay the work
The Jacksonville people talk of continuing the
line from Yreka to that place thence it will go
to the chief city in Oregon thus completing
highway of thought from San Francisco up-coast,
to the limits of our republic domains. In the
East the iron trails of thought are reaching far
ther and farther westward ere long they will
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their ways across the Great American Desert,
through the snowy defles Of the Sierras, and des-
cend to the broad green vallies of the Pacific,
there to find well-trained messengers ready to
take up their story and fash it away thousand
miles through summer and winter, across luxuri-
ant valleys and over perpetual SHOWS, to the re-
mote mining village where the grating of stone
and steel tells the progress of American enter.
prise.
One is amazed at the magnitude of mans in
ventive genius. For ages of ages two great
oceans have been roaring TO each other until the
terrified monsters of the deep hid themselves in
the profundity of ocean, yet their voices have
died on the breeze, leaving thousands of miles of
silence untraversed. Earthquakes and noun
tains Travelling with fire scared the lazy aborig
iual from his camp, but their thunders did not
reach the camp Of the American Bedouin who
sits on the desert sands laying out his war-path.
But on the Eastern land-verge a man sits among
acids and wires ; paper is before him on which
iswritten Disunion," or Invasion y he touch
an instrument that answers with " still
small voice." but each syllable is heard above
the surges of the western ocean, or amid the
storms that wall round the cold temples of Mount
Hood.
Slut out, as we are, from railroad or river COM
munication, and dependent on the slow progress
made over mountainous country, we think
telegraph indispensable for the convenience and
interests of the business community, and we
trust that subscribers will respond to the requests
Of the collector at once, and cbeerfully. There
is no doubt but what the investment will pay !;
the line from Marysvile to Oroville, dependent
on The business Of Orovifle, alone, has paid
small per centage. above expenses that between
Shasta aud Red Bluffs exceeds the expectations
Of the Company. Surely then, telegraph sus-
tanned by Marysville, Oroville, Red Bluffs, Shas-
Ia, Weavervile, Yreka, and intermediate places
OF less note, will make the Northern Telegraph
not only great convenience to the people Of the
north, but an enterprise of profit.