Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-08
The IIenaess Pass.
The San Juan Press has the following in
relation to the Henness Pass route:

The San Juan Press has the following in
relation to the Henness Pass route
| 1t is difficult for the distant reader TO un-
derstand the meaning of "Virginia Turnpike"
and "Truckee Turnpike as frequently and
sometimes indiscrimiuately applied to this
route
We will suppose the western terminus of
the road to be at Marysville, where it really
is. From that city, extending eastward to a
point two or three miles this side of Deer
Creek Crossing, at Oagues, the road is a
county thoroughfare. Here the Virginia
Turnpike commences, and ends at or near
French Corral. Its charter covers those
splendid mountain grades on either side of
Woods Bridge, and includes the right to col
lect tolls at the bridge, as well as on west
ern section of the turnpike some time ago
purchased by the Virginia Company. but
which right the company has never thought
proper to exercise.
From French Corral to Freemans Crossing
of the Middle Yuba, the road is under the
supervision of Nevada county. At or near
Freeman's Bridge, commences the "Truckee
Turnpike which continues over the Sierra
Nevada mountains, through the Henness
Pass to Virginia City. The road runs most
ly over and along the excavated sides of
mountain ridges which enabled its builders
to obtain that comparatively easy grade
which gives it such great pre-emnence.
The credit Of building SO much Of the
road as is embraced within the charter of the
Virginia Turnpike Company-and indeed for
several miles east and west Of that limit
belongs to d. |. Wood and N. q. Clark. In
the Birchvile district, the county fund was
last year expended under the personal super
vision OF Thomas Freeman, ho made several
marked impro vements on the road. Where
his work left off, the San Juan district begins
This part of the road, of which Judge Std
ger is the overseer, has always enjoyed the
reputation of being one of the finest links in
the whole improvement From the Middle
Yuba TO Washoe-a distance of about ninety.
six miles-the road was built by Thos. Free.
man, whose genius in that department of in
dastrY will he perpetuated so long as "Truck-
ee Turnpike and "uenness Pass" continue
synonomous terms.
The same paper says, concerning the
Washoe trade
An unremitting stream Of loaded teams for
Washoe, has poured through this place in the
last few weeks There seems to lie n daily
increase in the number and the amount Of
goods transported is enormous. MarysviIle
is deriving the chief advantage from this vast
trade, although not few wagons come from
Sacramento-the teamsters regarding the
Henness Pass route as infinitely superior to
all OF hers crossing the mountains The Truck.
ee Turnpike is now entirely completed, and
no obstruction of the slightest kind exists to
a free and easy transit The road all the
way through to Virginia City is wide, with
Il splendid grade, numerous excellent stop
ping places, and an abundance of cold, pure
and delicious water so that. in consideration
of the other fact, Of an eight-mule team being
able to haul twenty FIVE hundred pounds
more freight, (without the necessity of doub-
ling animals) than upon any other road,
there is no reason why this should not be tie
grand thoroughfare over the Sierra Nevada.