Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-21
TIE RIVAL ROUTES.

A matter of considerable interest to the
people of this Territory, of interminable
souabbling among the press of the way
side towns, and of very serious import
ance to the parties who have laid out the
immense sums that have been expended
upon the transmontane roads, is the queS-
ton of which is the shorter and best
route, the Northern, or that by Placer
vile. One would suppose that It was a
matter Of life and death with Nevada and
Placerville which of those towns lay on
the best road to Washoe. To use an
Irishism, if they all tell the truth, they are
the biggest pack of liars on the continent.
The people on this side take little interest
in the controversy. They want road by
the shortest and best route, and when
that is an ascertained fact, they will travel
that road sure. Every day we have a
"cruSher" from the advocate of one road
or another, by which "last say" the
route grows shorter by several miles than
it was the day before, and it would really
seem as fthese newspaper squibs had the
marvellous effect of actually shrinking
the roads themselves for without chang
ing the routes or making cutoff, the
stages arrive here many hours sooner than
they did before the commencement of the
controversy. Instead of YEARLY drag
ging along in the afternoon, they come
tearing and dashing into town in the "wee
sma' hours" Of the morning. Whether
the roads are shorter or not, the time Is,
and therein the public are the gamers. \
broken neck or two, or a mashed coach
may be the consequence some of these
dark nights, but man won't die till his
time comes, and wooden legs are cheap.
We doubt the accuracy of any statements
concerning the length of the roads which
appear in any of the Placerville or Nevada
| pagers, but we read them all, and, per-
haps, BY striking general average. one
may arrive within fifty miles of the truth.
The last shot on the subject comes from
the Nevada Transcript. The editor pub
fishes the last Placerville statement, which
he as matter of course denounces as
false, and then proceeds to rebuff with the
following statement, which we allow to go
before the jury, leaving them to be judges
of the credibility of the witness. Take
the stand, Mr.. Deal:
The false statements in il. which were evidently
intended TO misleaa the travelling public, require
some notice.
lst There is not the least probability that any
line of stages on the PlaceTyille route will ever
| make the trip from Sacramento TO Virginia City
between IA. ". and 10 r. NJ which is but Il hours,
| when the regular time OF tho Pioneer line is IS
hours.
81 Il is impossible for any line to make the re.
turn trip between A. NJ. and . P. NJ, in time for
the San Francisco steamer the same day.
id The Railroad is not open from Sacramento
| TO Latrobe, as only one mile is laid beyond Fol-
SON. and the parties have been enjoined from
taking up the track on the Auburn Railroad,
which il their sole reliance for iron TO build the
road TO Latrobe.
i,h Il is - miles, instead of II, from Latrobe
to Placerville.
5th The new road from BarIum's NEIL TO Sugar
Loaf has not been opened TO the public, and can
not possibly be completed for several months.
9TH. The distance from Strawberry 10 Friday s
is ~ instead of 20 miles. From Fridays TO Car
son it is 24t miles, instead Of a23.
In one of the articles, the distance from Latrobe
20 Virginia city is given at III miles, when the
real distance is l37 mies-a difference of only ~
miles The real distance is only g miles less than
that TO Folsom, as the railroad runs nearly south
from Folsom 10 Latrobe, instead OF direct line TO
Placerville. No time will therefore be gained by
constructing the Railroad to Latrobe, as it will
take about the same time to run the Is miles by
Railroad a. the s miles by stage. What troubles
the Pioneer line is the fact that ever since the
stages over the Henness Pass Route have con
necred with the Central Pacific Railroad, the lat
ter have beat the Pioneer line 10 Virginia city
| from 3 70 4 hours regularly, and the public are
| beginning TO find ont which is tho safest and
quickest route. So the Pioneer has to bolster il
self up by such reckless articles
Thatn do. Stand aside and let Mr..
Yarnen spin his yarn.