The weekly Butte record., 1861-01-12
A Voice from Washoe.

mondom. The Territorial Enterprise, copies
Railroad" published some weeks since, and at
tempts to demolish it by a sneer at " Humbug
Valley" and by pronouncing DIR. Fredonyer
al visionary mountain explorer" If the Doc
tor cannot take care of himself, he must fall
before the ponderous blows of the fierce Wash
ote who bestrides the tripod of the Virginia
City Enterprise. OF course, Col. Williams
of the Enterprise, could not do otherwise than
advocate project, however visionary 1T might
be, that promises 10 bring the great trans At
antic Railroad by his present location, altho'
the time has been when he considered the
Honey Lake Pass and the route thence to the
Sacramento Valley, the best that existed thro
the Nevada mountains. Now, it seems, he con-
siders it impossible to find a practicable pass
at all without first passing Virginia City. The
singuarity OF this conviction on the part of the
COL, is only equalled by that experienced by
Capt. Judah, that the only practicable pass
for a Railroad through the mountains, term-
mates where his six miles of Railroad begins.
Everybody will see that this project of extend
ing the road along the eastern slope of the
mountains, is a selfish one, that would work
great injury to the public for the aggrandlze-
ment of a few individuals.
Concerning the roHte from Honey Lake to
OrovilIe, the Enterprise says: "lt is we'll
known that the altitude of the different eleva-
ted points along the road from Honey Lake
Valley to Oroville, have never been taken by
any competent person." We beg pardon, but
1t is a fact that baromeirical observations of
the different elevated points along the road
from Honey Lake Valley to Oroville, have
been made by perfectly competent engineer,
and the route is known to be practicable. We
must also correct the figures of the Enterprise,
which make the altitude of Honey Lake Val
ley 1850 feet above the level of the sea, and
quotes Lieut. Beckwith as authority. 1t may
be that our Enterpris-ing friend means Jim
Beckwth, for the fact is that Lieut. Beckwith of
the U. S. Typographical Engineers, who sur
veyed the route through Honey Lake to Fort
Reading in 1854 gives the altitude of Honey
Lake Valley 1904 feet However, the Col.
has other authority to sustain his new found
preferences. He says: ANY Honey Lake
teamstcr win inform you that the road is Ger
tainly up-h hill to Humbug Valley 1t is poss-
ibe that some teamster has imposed upon our
friend, Col Williams, in order that he might
charge him a high price for freight or passage
from Honey Lake to Humbug. The head wa
ters of the North Fork of Feather River, have
their rise in the Big Meadows, some 80 miles
north of lIumbug Valley and flow past the
latter valley on their winding way to the Sac
ramento. But we suppose Col. Williams and
Capt. Judah can prove that any person who
finds the elevated points along the route lower
than Honey Lake Valley, is incompetent, and
that, if the waters of Feather River flow from
their rise past Humbug Valley to the Sacra-
mento River, they flow up an ascent of 45'
The mistake made by Lieut.. Beckwth was,
in endeavoring to ind practicable route from
Honey Lake Valley to Fort Reading on The
Sacramento River. Had he diverged to the
southwark from Susan River, he would have
reported more practicable route from Honey
Lake to the valley of the Sacramento.
Our CONGRESSMAN, J ohm Chinaman Burch
has written letter favoring the formation of
Pacific Republic by the Cnsarian method
The only comment we have noticed on the
foolish production of our reasonable Congress
man, is the following:
On CONGRESSMAN BURcH. - The Marys-
vile Democrat having carefully perused Con
gresham Burchs manifesto in favor of a
Pacific Republic, makes very full. explicit
comprehensive, acceptable and complete COM
ment thereon: which we quote:
"Oh pshaw!' y
To make it little comptefer. we would sug-
gest the amendment auxiliary " Scat, you
Bh-Burch Sac Nems.
ANOTHER WOODEN FACToKY.-Mr. John
Center is constructing Wooden Factory on
Mission street, San Francisco, in which be in
tends TO employ none but Chinese for help
The project has called forth considerable dis
cussion with regard to the propriety of employ
ing such description of cheap labor. We
can see 10 objections to it from the fact that
without such it is utterly impossible to carry
on that class of manufacturing operations in
California. American help will not work at a
price which will warrant any such undertaking
and the thing resolves itself at once into the
question, whether we shall send our wool to
the East and to Europe, to be manufactured by
cheap labor there, or whether we shall avail
ourselves of species of cheap labor which We
have at our doors, and do our work at home.
We go in for home manufacture, and cannot
sec where American Or any other white labor
will be injured in the least.
CAPITAL IrEMs.-The following interesting
items are from {. Pequods" letter to the Times:
The deferred Indian war debt bill will be in
troduced by Senator Ryan of Humboldt, very
early in the session, and will be published by
him with all the energy of his character and
nature. 1t provides for the assumption by the
State of about $4,000 in claims against the
Z. S. on account of Indian hostilities. OF
course the expenses of killing Indians ought to
be paid by somebody. That is as clear as it