Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-28
THE ALTA CALIFORNIA AND THE
DUTCH FLAT" RAILROAD.

lASllIS, ana 100 frequently It's rough anu IN
supported statements, and it keeps up its
FIRE, even TO this late dav, when its opposition
can neither benefit itself nor injure the road.
I, chris,cred the road long ago Dutch
Fiat" and by that name pummels the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad Company, the Legisla-
ture, Governor Stanford, Sacramento City
and Dutch Flat, and, as our prize-6ghtins
friend saws, everybody that takes their
part" Mos, particularly does it wallup the
unfortunate City of the Plains" The
Lord knows that unfortunate city, what with
FIRE and food and low water and Hogs Backs,
and ,hiev;ng officials, has had hard row TO
hoe, and It's afflicted but enterprising cisi-
zens have, with an untiring perseverance,
like unto that Of the traditional pismire,
struggled most desperately in more senses
than one 20 keep their heads above water
The identity OF its interests with those Of
dutch Flat" have now brought It under the
ban Q: the Alto, and that ponderous old
bed blanket" comes dowa on il with its
crushers, determined, if possible, to punch
the unfortunate town down out OF sight and
existence into the moist alluvium upon which
it is unfortunately built. With some little
truth, and 4 vast deal Of exasgeration, it
gives a woful description Of the prosecuted
Capital. I; says:
"Wasu the tlea Of founding csty in that locality
", .rrr4Jd, the high ground Which was available
was Discarded, and Spo; selected At the confluence
@, la, Sacramento and American rivers, Tor the
fItUra Ca,.l OF the STATE more subject 20 overflow
than Any s4T place on sar ~GU!e river The result
h,s gas .syt l.e doOIS have come, AMI i has been
Submerged Ase;" and again.
To oyercGulg this r-rCr Il has ever since been
s;5a.g'.us. l. is now persuaded TIA; him lev-c
AMI Datc.. Fa;' will save i. The hiSh !eves will
b=yn1g question, Keep tue water oU;. Il vii! also
Keen tie sane element in When tee work IS done
the cirs vii resemble 20 some extent. the crater OF
NsunA Lna. \. 1E"GHt will os s.op'nS siIes; IN
the hollow. Inside viii repose the city, in mud ami
bacOn,e weffoCtei. 4 will only he because y Is eN
y; -oEI tie operation ui natural laws. To M up
inside iII create plateau 'o- the city viii b. M
Hays,SSigl-.y. Il Nosc. D.ably o. SHASTA Butte
were ar.l-pt base upwards into the cavity, level
.. the hei-I; o;ih surrounding embanSments would
the p-ccc; LOOKS ike throwing csy.! MONEY after
BAD, hu; tn. Is EOle u or business y: pUtEh
!. w.. never rrate Tor Sacramento the expect atoms
ea,-r,.llI,- n relation 90 L. Though the Capital
has axle, n tn AT. upon tN.S c";H:y for six nun
d-vI ,5oHsaG. o..4-S LPyH Placer Tor TWO hundred
AMI a:.y ;hpus1.: Gu.lirs ana UYoa the Stat Cor
millions: Tor the benefit 81 Ihs' -chene-Ij wi! yet
p.uv'' - ruin. Luec~ MI. me-. - ralIruA' run
Ming .rofn Sacramento. by NAY o. DItCh Flat. 10
Sy.4s.N I-grlt3E. HER ~. o,s;t-stS IN me way
wh.SG y..a-r; ba overcome. The Patio Railroad
vii GLOW ARCHER rvIt", and i. route VII. p >; o.
n 1U-.. '9e CIV o: SIC-lUlvI;u, ~ anywhere IN
to, vicinity. After ths fact -, "-S patent Il may
81. .ctAa i,S Prrs;St-yG; oIiy d HVUui!HG san
GHo9 Is !"vees. converting Itself INTO sort 0;
70 |a N|H..H HFH. HF 1H- - -
the surrounding Cur.ltry. t. r"Ss NJ the S;a'r,
A4wsv--, msy not WAYS &c 500. ..lrgd ~ = -
row, A;4 has been Tor Some tue. Naenit turns
cola SaoEn.-r upon the Orphan ui the STATE, the
Egsl collapse Will " clos5 a: hIat-
With the exaggerated description Of Sacra-
mea:o's wTe;cheine>s we have nothing TO do.
1, is "aope Of our funeral" and the papers
OF tia, city are able to do their own jawing,
and the San Franciscans live in very large
glass house themselves. \ rock judiciously
SHE'D might cause quite crash in that quar-
tee. To the latter part of the article above
quoted, we must, however, interpose re-
mark OF incredibly. Whatever may have
been the true merits o: the Act passed by the
las, Legislature CT California, in giving the
amount OF aid tia: i; does 10 the Central
Pacific Railroad we DO no. propose to discuss.
The question was fully argued By the press
OF that State and by the Legislature which
passed the Act. When, however, the Ak9,
boldly, sagaciousiy, and in spirit ofp-ophecy,
declares that "there will never be 4 railroad
running from Sacramento, BY way OF Dutch
Flat, to Nevada TERRITORY" we Numerically
differ from that paper, and our means OF
knowledge on the subject are equal to those
of the Aka. Neither OF US probably sprung
directly from the loins Of a prophet, and our
sense Of guess is as good as mis- until the
contrary is proven. We believe that there
tciH be such railroad buil;, and that too, be-
fore the boy born today is endowed with his
first pair of boots and wears "galluses.'
Primz faciG we have altogether the best OF
the guess; such 4 road being already COM
menced and in IS active a state Of progress
sion as could be reasonably expected. That
that road IS intended to terminate in the
wilderness adjacent % Dutch Flat, when the
extension Of it few miles farther secures to
j. franchise, the value Of which is beyond
is proposition that is possible,
but improbable to degree amounting almost
70 absurdity. That "there are obstacles in
the way tina. cannot be overcome" is another
assertion for which we have the say ST" of
the Ala alone, and which there is neither law
nor Scripture compelling US 10 believe. In.
The first place obstacles which cannot be
overcome" are no: common in this latter
day; and in the second we have the opinion
Of very competen, engineers that the road is
not only 4 perfectly feasible one, but the
most, If not the only, practical route across
the Sierras. This opinion they fortity BY
their surveys. The 4AG man has not sur
yeyed it, except possibly with the instru-
men,s with which Alexander Selkirk sur
yeyed his island realm. We shall continue
20 believe that the Central Pacific Railroad,
ria Dutch Flat is coming 70 the State line,
until we see II come 10 I dead halt short Of
that point. We shall believe that the Pacific
Railroad will follow another route when we
see some other company evince one-half the
energy and do one-half the work that the
former is doing, of which We have yet to see
the first symptom. It is matter OF some
moment 10 those on both sides Of the Sierras
that such a road be built; but it is matter
Of very small moment as TO what particular
company builds it, or by what route 1t
comes. We are in favor of the .Srst road,
and we believe that that one will be "sy way
Of Dutch Flat"
CONTROVERSIAL telegram to the Sacra-