Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-21
FOR WHAT o

has the following:
Information has been received in this
CITY to the effect that a controlling interest OF
the Sacramento Valley Railroad which ex-
tends from Freeport and Sacramento towards
Placeryille, has been sold to the Central Pa
ciic Railroad Company. This purchase, it
is understood, stops the further extension Of
the Placerville road in the direction Of
Washoe, and leave the Stanford line without
4 competitor to stimulate the early compile
ton Of that important work. The act pro-
viding for the construction Of the Pacific
Railroad passed Congress some three and
q half years ago, and the Stanford Company
organized and commenced operations six or
eight months thereafter. For what purpose
has the control Of the Placeryille road been
obtained? Il capno be used by taking up
the track and relaying it upon the Pacific
line, without the State receiving a positive
injury, for there are interests TO develop on
the route Of the Sacramento Valley Railroad
too important to be triAed with, II the OBJ
ject should be delay in the construction OF
the Stanford road, after the aid it receives
from Congress and the State Of California, it
will be a result which we have not auticl-
pated, and one most injurious to the inhabit.
ants Of this coast"
We have the first fruits" Of this pur-
chase in an announcement that after the
2sth of this month all passenger trains
are to be drawn off the Freeport track ;
and the passengers, express and mails that
have heretofore reached here before 6 P. N.
via Pioneer line, will be obliged to wait
for q start from Sacramento at 6:30-not
arriving here until eight hours later. Our
citizens Of business who have been accus
toned to get their express letters and
packages in thirty hours from San Fran
cisco-the evening after their dispatch
from the Bay-will now not receive the
same until the next morning beyond the
old time. In other words, and in short,
the monopoly has begun, and the result is
great comparative inconvenience to our
people.
1t is q remarkable concession here viz
tually made, that a little private enter
prise, a railroad helped to the extent of
two or three hundred thousand dollars
worth of Ell Dorado bonds, is or has been
successfully competing with an enterprise
possessing-as claimed ten to twelve
millions of United States aid, and other
available means for prosecuting the work.
If the road via Dutch Flat is practical
clear orer the Observation-Disclosures has not
to be a skip of twenty-five or thirty miles
around impossible barriers, it is amazing
that the Dutch Flat Company should
find it expedient to smother "a local rail-
road"-a balloon railroad "-cut off its
passenger trains with the strong hand Of
arbitrary power, and even exclude an ad-
vertisement of the travel by stage from
Single Springs hitherward.
If the word of q Copperhead stage agent
is qualified authority in the premises, then
the apprehensions the Bulletin expresses,
with great evident reluctance, are to be
fulfilled the track Of the Sacramento Val
ley road is to be taken up to supply rail
from Clipper Gap to nlinoistown. But
we do not believe that this will be
so. It does not seem that this course
Of procedure is necessary to the breaking
up of travel on the Placeryille route.
Some less grossly offensive operations will
attain the object. And the excuse could
not be entertained a moment for nearly
two years ago, the d. +. Company an
nounced that they had rail enough to lay
their track to Dutch Flat. But, unques-
tionably, the Placerville R. r. was q great
opposition to the D. F. Co.; else, why buy
off its main and essential connection
We are informed that when the D. F. Co.
reach a point a few miles above Dutch
Flat, they propose jumping the Summit.
There Is a m that they may find a
place for stationary engine work; but
probably the Summit will be passed alto
gether. Now, it cannot be denied that q
thorough instrumental survey has been
made over the Johnson Summit, demon
strating the feasibily Of a railroad via the
Placerville route at a ninety-fve foot max
imum grade. Congress has offered sub
sides to three branches on the other end
it was TO be nationally expected that I'M
under the circumstances, they would have
granted equal privileges to practicable
branch on this end. To pause this ex-
pectation, the purchase of the "Sacra-
mento Valley" was made. We are aware
that in speaking ~candidly Of this matter
we increase the enmity toward US Of a gi-
gan,ic corporation ; but we write as a citi-
zen of Nevada. only and always wishing
our best interests as a people. The B"I-
Letin farther remarks, that since the pas
sage of the Pacific r. r. bill, "three and
a half years have passed away, with the
actual construction Of but forty odd miles
of road out of some TWO thousand in all.
This does not exhibit q very fattering
state Of things, yet We fear the purchase
of the Placerville railroad by the stock
holders of the Central Pacific, is but an IN
dicasion Of delay to take place upon this
end of the route" When may we look
for a Railroad
WILL BE BUILT.