Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-19
I., ,,a National Rauvay.,

The building and builders of the Pacific
Railroad have no more right to be set up
in rivalry to the construction OIL such roads
as State and loca, interests demand, than
Government navy yards have to be
brought into competition with the estab-
lishments which furnish ships and steam
boats for mercantile and commercial
uses. The projected highway across the
plains is, or ought to be, entirely q ma
tional undertaking, unless the old, ex-
ploded l~ocofoco policy Of opposition to
internal improvements, born of the State
Rights monomania, is to be maintained.
It is rather an unfortunate thing for the
country that the city Of Sacramento
sprung up on Suffers old embarcadero. if
the local interests of that town are the first
things to be considered by the parties into
whose hands the building of the western
end Of the Pacific railroad is contded.
Carrying out such an idea is to get as far
away from the eternal fitness Of things as
the rustic who wondered why it was that
large rivers always ran by large towns.
Yet We have nc objection to the Pacific
Railroad having a depot in Sacramento.
The citizens Of that settlement have strug-
gled hard and manfully against fire and
food, and have shown much perseverance
in so piling up the dirt in their streets as
to make the statement all the nearer truth
that the foot hills Of the Sierras are within
seven miles of that corporation. But we
have an objection and must be allowed to
put it in black and white (notwithstand-
ing the tendency it may exert toward driv-
ing the Pacific Railroad down into Ari-
zonia or New Mexico), to having the
interests Of a system of railroads in the
Pacific States hampered and annoyed the
corporations and individuals who cannot
fulfill their contracts upon the Pacific
Railroad with profit to themselves and the
advancement in prosperity OF the town in
which they happen to live, unless an I'M
willing public is forced into travelling over
the road which they are building. We
want a Pacific Railroad ; and so does the
whole nation. But we want it as an ad-
iunct to our other interests /; not as a him
drance and a stumbling block. The Pla-
cervlle Railroad is just as much a Pacific
Railroad as the one which is being built
Ol DutCl TldI. I've pIOlCSNOAo SSitS'h-
plate crossing the Sierra Neyadas and ex-
tending their line into this State, and as
much further as it will pay and If the
Central Pacific Company have anything
further than that in view, we don't know
it. But that is neither here nor there.
The business prosperity of Nevada de-
mands the nearest and most speedy means
of travel between here and the Bay Of San
Francisco. We cannot really afford to
aid in making Sacramento the great mart
of the Pacific States. We have not the
means to spare, as much as our generosity
i%nclines US to so charitable an action. We
are almost as much in need of the Placer
vile road as the nation is in want of the
Pacific Railway; and it Is for our own
interest that local capital be unmolested
and undiverted in seeking the one, and for
he good Of the nation that Uncle Sam
take energetic hold Of the other, and build
it himself.-Carson appeal.