The weekly Butte record., 1862-02-08
NYes Ranch Eyulfant.


the Ranch have teemed with long and exulting
articles about the great increase OF business,
travel, and shipments to the mountains from
their over stocked warehouses,-and have rep
resented their town as the only high and dry
spot above the Bay City worthy of CONNER
cial note, and invite the people of Butte Plu-
mas and Nevada, to come and trade with them,
and thus avoid the expense and delay of going
to San Francisco. Nevada ships from the
Bay to Eliza, for the reason that it is more
accessible to her than the bloviating Ranch.
Butte has her buyers in San Francisco, and
would ship directly within her borders, dis
tance of thirty miles, according to the Appeal,
above the head of navigation of the Yuba
River, if it was not for the legal fiction that
permits bridges TO be erected across Feather
River thirty miles below, where the Appeal
admits it is nayigable, and for the further rea-
son that the Ranch requires the toll from our
people for passing over her ria sqerd from
Yuba City, which affords great fecilities and
benefits to our merchants and traders for e1-
ample:
| HIGH FRErGHr.-Tcamsters and draymen
are now charging two dollars per ton for haul
ing freight from the Feather River Landing to
this city. The high rates are produced by the
bad condition of the street leading from Yuba
City, the mud being so deep that but small
loads can be transported to Marysville- Ma
rysville Express, Feb. 9th, 1862.
And then says the Appeal, steamboats, con-
not compete with teams in carrying freight
above the bridge. How can they afford to do
so below that point Is it not because there
is opposition in boating? Was il not so with
Marysville before the formation of the " Citi-
zen's Navigation Company" in opposition to
| the California Steam Navigation Company
And during the past year, has not freight been
brought to Yuba City from below by the boats,
at the same rate now charged to get it from
Yuba City to Marys7ille 1t costs our mer-
chants, during the dry season, eight dollars per
ton for freight from Marysyle to our town !;
now, if by virtue Of opposition in boating it
can be brought to Marysyille from the Bay
for three and four dollars, why cannot it be
brought thirty miles above for proportionate-
ly greater price, say FIVE dollars per ton? The
Appeal, in its leader of the 4th inst, admits
the navigability of Feather River since 1S49 ;
shows that the Sam Soule made thirty-two
| trips in 1851; not counting any made by the
Gazelle and also shows that the Defiance came
here this Winter. The fact that she did not
reach here on her second trip is a source of
extreme exultation to the Appeal, but admits
that she came within ten miles Of our town,
with heavy freight, and Capt. Gibson says
that Feather River, above the bridge at Yuba
City is a better navigable stream than it is
between TIE bridge and its mouth. The OBJ
struction the Defiance met with is not uncom-
mon even below the bridge, viz the temporary
change of the channel during the late freshets :;
but this is no permanent thing, and the boat
men say that as soon as the river gets well
within its banks, the channel will be all right
again. The Appeal hugs to itself highly
wrought up vision of its own creation, not
founded on fact about the arrival of the Def
ance at our landing. 1t calls our town the
q famine beleaguered city :" and intimates that
an excited and hungry crowd ran up and
down the bank of the river with loud huzzas"
on the arrival of the boat. But, Mr.. Appeal,
Of the city late surrounded by water and now
knee deep in mud, you let your imagination
outstrip the truth, and count.without yonr host
But, no doubt, the wish was highly wrought
picture were father to the thought. The fact
is, our neighbors at the Ranch, see many strong
indications gathering around themthat threaten
to curtail their trade and toll, and, like the
boy in the woods, keep up loud blowing 10
frighten off the threatening evil. The Appeal
holds up the want of success of the Steam
Navigation Company, to the owners of the
Defiance, as warning to them not TO come up
this way, but those men know their own bust
ness best, and, no doubt. will not be intimidated
by the big monopoly that tied up the Marys
vile Citizens Navigation Company. And it
is more than surmised by many, that the tying
up of that companys boats had a serious effect
upon the monopoly in navigating Feather
River above the bridge, and made it very un-
profitable to carry freight to Oroville at Sl2
per ton. The Defiance is not party to the
contract between the monopoly Steamboat
Company and the Marysvie citizens line
that owns boats but has not got the grit to
run them, for fear the monopoly might open up
the trade to Orovile again. The fact is ap-
parent to any unprejudiced mind, that the ap-
proaches to Marysvile are impossible even
to teams and freight trains; the rancheros at
that point know this as well as We do, and the
following from the roaring Appeal of the 9TH
inst. only bears out the assertion:
ave need, before all other things, that our
avenues of communication with the contiguous
country be made passable and convenient for
travel and teaming.
We are glad that YOU begin to see thinrs