Nevada national., 1860-03-17
THE NEVADA NATIONAL,
Wnshoe Trims in EIdorado.

The ccloma Times, speaking Of the emf
grafton to Washoe, says: -
Nearly every day pack trains pas. through
this place, en- route for the Washoe dig
gings from Marysville, Nevada. Auburn.
and other places north. Thursday last.
March Sth, there was u train passed. con.
tanning about rs animals, from Marysville.
The animals were to be loaded at Placer
vile. How happens it that all those pack
trains come this way to cross the mountains
when they have so greatly a superior route
nearer home? Will some one inform US!
Tbs above question has been put to, and
answered by the press Of this County at least
dozen times yet at the risk Of being
thought to do work Of supsrrrogation, for
the benefit Of the Times" which seems to
be an earnest seeker after truth, we will
once more answer, and we trust our Colona
friend will make note ont" The Union
irom which W, clip the paragraph, and which
is very industrious in seeking out all such
items, Of ceurss, will do no such thing.
Public attention was not called to the ex-
traordinary facilities of the Nevada route
until II was too ate to do anything, last
season, to make the route available for trav-
cling, even In the sammer, TO say moth
ing OF winter transit. Every one knows
that road to be successfully used by load
cd teams, especially In winter, must be well
supplied with houses for the accommodation
OF both travellers and teams, and, in a noun,
tainous country, must be worked to some
little extent, at least.
Now 1t was satisfactorily proven Just be.
fore winter set in last season, that the Ne
vada route could be made far better road,
with an outlay Of less than 5000, which
might be expended in sir treeks, than has
been made over the PlscervilIe route in SIR
years, with an outlay OF 100000. Accor-
dingly arrangements have been made dur
ing the past winter, by which this road will
be properly opened and the necessary sla-
tions established Us soon as the snow disap-
pears. That done, our Coloma friend will
not, thereafter be troubled with the dust Of
the very frequent passage Of pack, or aus
other trains through bis quiet burgh on
their way to Washoe. The great bulk Of
the travel and transportation, both ways.
will then pass through Grass Valley aud
Nevada. Occasional parties may indeed,
now aud then be made up at Coloma and
Placerville. by enterprising persons, deal.
rous to leave what will then be those quiet
localities, for the more promising fields o.
enterprise on the eastern slope. 1t is posi-
Bile that the passage Of these trains may be
sufficient to prevent the total obliteration Of
the Placerville route. and perpetnate q
knowledge Of its geographical position. 1t.
general features can never be forgotten by
any one wh2 has ever passed over it.
For the especial benefit Of those who are
contemplating visit to Silverland, before
II will be possible to open the Nevada route
we append the following -
THE PLAcERYIILE ROUTE TO WAsHoE.-
A correspondent OF the Bulletin thus describ
es portion OF the road leading from Placer
vile to Washoe. The next stopping place Is
Lake Valley, or down the grade-and such
grade ! When you first begin to descend
you come in view Of Lake Bigler. a beauti-
fnl sheet OF water. The scenery here is mag
nihcent. but rather terrific in fact, when
| went down my hair seemed 10 stand on
end! The snow mad filled the track, and
one wrong step, and both the rider and bis
animal would 20 down thousands Of feet
II Is precious steep indeed, and probably
5000 feet high. 1t winds along the noun
tain side, and you have to 60 long way to
get down.
How do you like the picture" friend
Times? The Henness Pass is 80 smooth
and so unlike a smountsin road at all, that
the traveller is absolutely unable to tell when
be reaches the summit and commences hii
descent on the opposite side, except by the
closest scrutiny.
The approach to the summit from either
side is also more favorable than that by any
other route. With regard to the elevation
Of the two routes 1t is now pretty well es,
tablished that the Henness Pass by the Ne
vada route Is nearly If not quite Sirteen
Hundred Feet lower than the Pass by the
Plscerville route. DeGroot, in his map ol