The weekly Butte record., 1861-01-26

BE- Our citizens do not seem TO appreciate
the importance Of subscribing for stock, and
organizing a company to build railroad to
the State line. If they did, 10 difficulty would
be experienced in filing up the amount requir-
ed Unless company is organized here, and
that speedily, one will be formed elsewhere,
which may secure the aid proposed to be given
by Congress, and build railroad round this
city. If permanent citizens desire to make
Sacramento the center of system of railroads
for this valley, now is the time to strike. Form
a company to build railroad to the State
line, and the most important step toward that
object, and toward making this the terminus of
the Pacific Railroad, has been taken.-Sacrd-
menfo Union.
The above is quite as applicable to this To-
cality as it is for Sacramento. 1t is well known
that the Railroad bill which has already passed
the House, makes Honey Lake point. The
scheme advanced above is to have the road di-
verge from Honey Lake along the eastern base
of the mountains, and thence over the sky
scraping Placervile route to Sacramento, and
more despicable, and selfish project was
never advanced inside Of the walls of China.
Why not form a company to extend the
Valley road to Honey Lake? Would the
fact that such road would pass through Oro-
vile and Marysville before arriving at its ter
minus, be considered an insuperabe objection
by prominent citizens of Sacramento against
Pacific Railroad ? Is it necessary for the
existence Of the great city of Sacramento that
the Pacific Railroad should be tuned back
from Honey Lake into Utah, and thence thro'
that Territory to Carson, and over the very
worst route through the Nevada mountains !?
VIII Sacramento 90 under if the Pacific Rail
road enters the State above or below that
point? Would Sacramento be less the termi-
nus, should the road be extended up the valley
of the Sacramento to Honey Lake, instead Of
running hundreds Of miles out of the way, and
outside the limits of the State, in order that
Sacramento might be the first point at which
it would arrive in the valley? This scheme OF
the Unions is utterly barren of recommended
tion, if we except extreme selfishness, and
can hardly meet the approval of the prominent
citizens of Sacramento. If they are citizens
of the State as we'll as of Sacramento, they
will prefer building a road through the State
to Honey Lake stead of choosing the longer
and more difficult route through Utah.
1t is time that this portion of the State
aroused from its lethargy, and set about secu-
ring the construction of the road from Honey
Lake through the Sacramento Valley to Sac
ramento. The fifteen thousand dollars per mile
of Government aid for the construction Of the
road from Honey Lake TO Sacramento had
better be spent on practicable route within
the State. than OF an impracticable route
through Utah, over which it would require
millions of dollars to tunnel road, If, indeed,
it is at ali practicable.
Why should not the whole northern portion
of the State unite in forming company to
construct this road to Honey Lake, and thus
secure to this portion Of the State the rights
to which her natural advantages entitle her.
Organize, ascertain the most practicable route
from Honey Lake to the valley Of the Sacra-
mento, and build the road.
ksy- The California Farmer, in an article
on the cultivation of the peach, holds that it
has fallen into disrepute in this State, because
of the curled leaf and general degeneracy. 1t
may not have been planted on the proper soil,
or in proper climate. Cold sections and
bleak exposure may be better suited to it than
the soil and climate of the vallies besides,
the peaches are smaller of late years, for the
reason that the trees are allowed to bear too
many.
rs" S. L Snyder, Esq, formerly of Oroville,
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