Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-09
That Wagon Road Bill.

The Placeryille and Carson Valley wagon
Road Biu anpropriating $4,000 for the ben
eft of that route, was defeated IN the As
semblv. on Wednesday. 1t will come upI
ayoir on vote of reconsideration, when
we hone it will again be defeated. We are
mpcb pleased with the course of our Repre-
sentative, Mr. Fuller, on this question, and
with the action of the balance of our delega-
ton. including Mr.. Aud. They acted for
the best interests of the State at large. Mr.
Fuller and his colleagues were fully determin-
ed that no bill Of the kind should pass which
did not favor as well the Yuba Pass route
and the Mobiles Pass route as the Johnson's.
If fifty thousand dollars must be paid out of
the Treasury for the benefit of Sacramento
and Placerville, at least $4,000 might be
paid out for the benefit of Marysville and
Downieville, and another sum for the Mobiles
Pass route and another for the Big Tree route,
in Calaycras Why should one section be
favored more than another If one section
must be favored by State Legislation, let it
be that one which requires the least money,
which has naturally the best route, and that
is this Marysville and Downievlle section,
which has pass through the Sierra Nevada
one thousand feet lower than any other pass.
Fifteen thousand dollars spent on the luba
/ Pass route would make a better road of 1t
than $4,000 on the Carson Valley Johnson's
| Pass route would, added to the thousands
/ that have already been expended on the lat
ter With fifteen thousand dollars-S35, 900
less than is asked for for the Carson Valley
route-this section Of the country will guar
antee in six months to make road from this
point to the Sink of the Humboldt better
than any road that could ever be made be.
tween Sacramento and the same point Why 4?
Because Nature has already done three
fourths of the work.
But we are not begging anything at the
hands of the legislature. We believe we
can build our own roads. But, if the State
at large must be called upon to pay for the
opening of any road at all for the influx of
immigration into the country, let it be ap-
propriated to the best and most practicable
and least expensive route That we have
and it is through the Yuba Pass.
These facts have been demonstrated by ac-
tual survey, and they cannot be gainsayed.
DEEP SNow-A correspondent of the
Plumas Angus, writes from Poorman's Creek
in Plumas county that the pas; winter has
been the hardest within the knowledge of
the "oldest inhabitant" 1t is estimated that
twenty five or thirty feet of snow has fallen,
at different times. The snow now lies from
eight to ten feet deep, but is not thought
much of, for at Onion Valley, it is twelve or
fifteen feet deep. 1t may be a matter of won
der to some how people get about where
there is so much snow, but it is the easiest
thing in the mountains. Nearly all have Nor
wegians snow shoes, about nine feet long,
four and a half inches wide, made of wood, |
shaved thin and turned up in front like
sled runner, and by fastening them to the
feet about the middle of the shoe, and with
a pole in the hands for a balance a person
can run over the light and new fallen snow
at railroad speed