The Nevada journal., 1860-01-13
NEVADA JOURNAL
FRIDAY MORNING, Jan. 10, 1860.

AhOh6 ADON OOh
must be evident to every one who
will look upon a map of the State
that the trade of Amador, El Dorado
and Placer counties naturally goes
TO or through Sacramento. Nature
has done Mat for the present capital
of the State. By virtue of her posi-
tior she is entitled TO that trade. By
virtue of enterprise she nigh: be en-
titled to other aids TO her growth and
stability, The resources of other
counties not less wealthy and import
ant than those already mentioned
might be made to minister to the
greatness of Sacramento. These,
however are but slightly tributary
now to that ambitious city, ard prom
ise to be less SO as time advances.
The railroad now in process of con-
struction from Marysville to Benicia
without checks must control the trade
and travel of the whole State north
Of Placer county for Marysville or
some other point on the Sacramen-
to in he vicinity of Knights Land
ing. That railroad completed and
Nevada is within ten hours of San
Francisco. The railroad to Lincoln
will only put US within about six
hours Of Sacramento. Our merchants
who so to fhe Bay for the purchase
OF goods. and whose time is valuable,
will go. 20 Marysville instead Of Sac
amento. The trip will be shorter by
some hours and the dams cr of hang
ing on the "hog's back" avoided.
Even should we make Lincoln our
depot, two out of three passengers
TO San Francisco from Nevada,
would for choice, if the road to Ben
;cia were completed. 60 by the way
of Marysville, and certainly every
one would from the whole country
north Of us.
The stream of travel from Ne
vada, Sierra aud portion of Yuba
which seems to set in the direction
Of Marysville may DC easily controll-
ed and turned forever into Sacramem>
TO. A railroad from Folsom to Ne
vada will accomplish it. Such a rail-
road will put us within three hours of
Sacramento and must insure the en-
tire travel of this quarter of the State
We showed in cur last weeks issue
that Sierra county is thirty miles
nearer Nevada than Marysviile.-
One of the prominent citizens of ST.
ezra while in town but a few days
since remarked that Nevada could
easily be substituted for Marysville
as the depot ofhis county by building
the Folsom, Auburn and Nevada
railroad. Nothing is palmer, The
interests Of Sacramento, then, clearly
He in the building of a road to this
city. She can thereby turn a stream
0f travel to her beoefit which other
Wise she cannot hope to gain ; which
she does not now have and which by
proper attention to her interests she
may readily possess. Instead Of be-
jig satisfied with what nature has
given her in the trade and travel of
the counties on her east and which
cannot be diverted from her, it would
s1pear to lie her policy to show some
a.tention to other streams of COM
merce which by opening the proper
channels might be made to flow in
her direction. The miner is a short
sighted and improvident one who is
content with the water which nature
sends down his little ravine in the
rainy season. The wise one will TAP
the remoter but perennial fountain.
If the mountain passes in this sec.
ton Of the Sierras- are lower and bet.
ter than that by Placerville, Sacra-
Inento may not turn her back towards
us,and gazing wistfully at theJ ohnson
"cut off," expect heaven 10 send the
majority of the Washoe trade and the
eastern emigration by that route
Heaven helps those who help them
selves.
The true interests of Nevada city
are in union with Folsom by rail-
road. The future growth and impor-
taace of Nevada depends upon the
construction of such work. Be-
cause it would make this city the de-
pot for large and rich surrounding
country; because it would inevitably
secure the whole trade and travel oi
the silver mines of Western Utah