The Placer herald., 1860-06-23
Mg~ The pIacer Courier has found q new Au-

Mg- The Placer Courier has found new Au-
burn correspondent in "Veritas." Remarkable,
indeed that the antrailroad correspondents OF
that paper should all reside in Auburn, and more
remarkable is the fact that the only proposition
in the Rail and Wagon Road Bill they write
against is although pretending opposition to all
the subscription to the Sacramento, Placer and
N. Railroad u work that is intended to embrace
Auburn in its course. This .duburn correspon-
dent is payt,cularlu greved (as well as the Edi-
tor of the Courier,) that we should have attached
so little importance to the so called Eastern Ex-
tension Railroad, as to not make it prominent
editorial subject; and then proceeds to imrart to
his readers Importance, cost. grades, the nett
revenues. etc, of this embryo enterprise. Strange
that citizen of Auburn should exhibit so much
familiarity with the sDistension," and be so alive
to its Importance, and yet have so much bottled
wrath against the Sacramento, Placer d Nevada
Rond: but then we are reminded that 'Veritas'
may be "elongating" a Turnpike from the said
"Distension." and the contents of the cocoa-nut
Immediately become apparent.
AS we have formerly remarked. we know but
little of this work, and in that respect are not
more gnOran, than many who reside in the i'm
mediate vicinity OF the proposed road who have
failed to penetrate the mystery that surrounds It,
and we have failed to see its Importance as pre-
sented to the mind of "Veritas." We have not
been idle in endeavoring to ascertain of whom
having found it to have few warm friends. we
utterly failed in discovering single stockh lder
in Placer county. Although but mere turn out
it's proposed length being but about seven miles
and terminating against abrupt foothills, we
have been content to see the projectors carry out
their enterprise. if they could, without throwing
cold water upon it. We have also been content to
let the advocates of the road, if any, to argue
their own cause among the people for S25 900 as
sistance from the county, being willing to
let it stand upon whatever merit it had.
But we never have been able to see it as work
possessing a tithe of the Importance OF the Sac
ramento Placer and Nevada Railroad 1t is, and
can never be more than short line, but seven
miles in length, terminating at s eep foothills
and from thence to be connected with the noun
tains by a turnpike. On the other hand the Sac
ramento. Placer IL Nevada Railroad is important
rs a State enterprise. 1t ascends from the plains
into the mountains, and is intended to connect
Auburn and Nevada with the cities below; and
also to be portion of Central Pacific Railroad.
for which is location eminently adapts it, And
beside, it goes nearer to the center of trade and
population and consequently gives greater facll-
tiles for trade and travel, and causes larger re-
duclion in the price of frei ghts than any other
road can do, and is built upon line that deies
for all time to come the competition Of any other
Railroad for the mountain business of Placer
Nevada, southern Sierra and the upper portions
Of Ell Dorado and 1uba counties. For these rea-
sons the Eastern Extension falls into utter insig
nifcance compared with the S. P n. Road
''Veritas,' in common with the opponents of
the measure now at issue before the people OF
Placer county, sees large colored individual
in the wood pile, and volunteers impntations
against the integrity of the last named Railroad
CompaEy,a rs glibly as if they were Il combination
of Treasury robbers. And with an industry that
would have been commendable in a searcher after
truth, it seems he has resortcd to the tax tolls of
the county, and ascertained that MA ority Of
the present Directors have property only TO the
amount OF S l.0l6 which is exempt from execution.
and asks if the voters of the county will vote the
county to become stockholder to The amount of
500 900 in corporation where the majority Of
the Directors are worth the above sum. So it
seems the standard of integrity. according to
"Fertas' is to be estimated by the dollars men
possess 1t is crime for them to be in moderate
circumstances. and unworthy of public confidence
forsooth because they do not appear upon the
tax roll for us many round thousands as. perhaps,
the correspondent himself Ii he felt the force of
his own words he must have felt that be could
not have written more despicable sentence.
but viii rttcupt futiuw tire often ae
serted as wei! as retutcd declarations of the wri-
Ter. 1t is sufficient to know that he has personal
interest against the building oil Il Railroad to
Auburn y toll road is Of more int rest to him
Just now. and Il divis on OF the county prospcc
tive interest. So much for his vrtuous indigna-
ton about taxation upon the people.