Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-22
9ailg 9atlonaI Qemutrat
The Interest," OF Northern CaIitornia.

Discussing the Pacific Railroad, the Red
Bluff Independent says
II is no longer doubt, but a certainty
that we shall, in comparatively a few wears
have a railroad connecting us with our At
lantc brethren. In view of this fact. Sacra-
mentans are moving heaven and earth to Sc
cure the terminus. For want of natural fa-
cilites to recommend the route which wonld
make Sacramento the terminus, it will trv
what power there is in money. We are will
ing to coneede much to Sacram ento. Weare
willing that ungodly city should have the
State Fair, and be the place of the annual
gathering of the honest bergers of the State.
We are willing that she should have the State
capitol, and swarms of hungry politicians.
and mud and floods-but we are not willing
TO have the Sierra Nevada tunneled to LET
through the Pacific Railroad that she NAV
receive the sole benefit of being the terminus
There is small section Of territory north of
Sacramento which is growing into signif-
eance, and which will yet WELD considerable
influence in the deetinies of the Pacific coast
The northern section of California have all
the natural advantages, if we have not the
money
But Sacramento has found an ally in the
of the Butte Record siences his guns with
the following "broadsde:"
Capt Judah's Utah Railroad project does
not lack an able advocate in the land of Nor
mondom. The Territorial Enterprise copies
our article headed 'Orovile and Honey Lake
Railroad" published some weeks since, and
attempts to demolish it by a sneer at Hum
bug Valley and by pronouncing DR.. FIRE.
donyer "a visionary mountain explorer If
the Doctor cannot take care of himself, he
must fall before the ponderous blows of the
fierce Washoite who bestrides the tripod of
the Virginia City Enterprise. Ofcourse Col
Williams, OF the Enterprise, could not do
otherwise than advocate project however
visionary 1T might be, that promises to bring
the great transatlantic railroad by his pres
ent location, although the time has been
when he considered the Honey Lake Pass,
and the route thence to the Sacramento VAL
ley, the best that existed through the Nevada
mountains Now, it seems, lie considers it
impossible to find practicable pass at all
without first passing Virginia City, The
singulaIity of this conviction on the part of
the Colonel is only equalled by that expert
enced by Capt. Judah, that the only practi-
cable pass for a railroad through the noun
tains, terminates where six miles of the Rail-
road begins Everybody will see that this
project of extending the road along the east
ern slope of the mountains is selfish one.
that would work great injury to the pubic
for the aggrandizement of few individuals .
The amount of money required to build a
railroad from Sacramento to the eastern slope
of the Sierra Nevada by the Placerville
route, would build a continuous road from
Sacramento to Honey Lake by way of Red
IrH N bo g., lec.
menee business on. There is, at some future
time, bound TO be a road up the Sacramento
Valley. Oroville is already pushing along
the road from that place to Marysvie. The
gap between Oroville and Red Bluff will be
only some sixty miles and from this place tc
Honey Lake Valley, less than eighty miles
SO whether Sacramento wastes her energies
upon an impractcable route, yea or nav
Northern California is bound to secure the
Pacific Railroad.
The Shasta Herald, in speaking of the ad-
vantages of the route by Honey Lake Valley
and Mobiles Pass, says:
"The Committee which reported the bill
that had passed the House, was appointed
last spring, Curtiss, Chairman. They first
voted in Committee on the number of routes
and decided in favor of but one, with bran
ches. The Committee finally reported in fa-
vor of a road over the Central route, between
the AID and 35th degrees of latitude. Start
ing one branch from St Joseph, and another
from Leavenworth, uniting 200 miles east OF
the Mississippi, passing through the South
Pass to the head of the Sacramento 1t is
pretty generally concluded that it will take
less money to open road through Mobiles
Pass, than through any along that range oil
mountains. Why therefore, should the road
make grand detour, merely for the purpose
of finding more difficult place to cross. Ma
ture has indicated the route, and the Inde-
pendent is correct in stating that SO far as the
prosperity of the city of Sacramento is con-
cerned, it would in no degree injure it, by the
road following Mobiles Pass, rather than ria
Placervilie. Strong efforts are being mad
80 secure that route by interested parties, and
if the People of Northern California wish &c
see the locomotive putting through the Sierras
in this region, they must go to work and sub
scribe stock, as their competitors are now
doing on the other routes. Vigorous actor
now, may result in the location of the Pacific
railroad through portion of Shasta county
Again we repeat-let the people of North
ern California wake up to their interests, HnG
not let this great enterprise go by default
The interests of Marysvile. Oroville, REQ
Bluff and Shasta are identieal-let US pre-
sent united front, and not allow the marcel
to be gained of us