The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1866-09-29
BUSINESS N osov,rrK has been good during the

BUSINESS N ORoyILLE has been good during the
past month and viii, doubtless, continue TO i'm
prove until the rainy season shall set in The work
of securing winter supplies in the mountain dis
uicts is being prosecuted with vigor and, con-
sequence. our streets, and hay-yards, and hotels
present lively and business-like appearance The
railroad depot is surrounded with teams bringing
in down freight consisting of lumber lime, pitch.
grain. hides. etc. and freighting back into the
mountains groceries, provisions and miners sup
plies. This business and hustle has the effect TO
keep our people good natured well as busy, and
the affairs of the community roll on without ia per
ceptible jar. Some of orr business men occasion
ally present an elongated phiz. as the announce
ment of some fresh applicant for the benefit of the
T insolyent laws is brought 10 their notice, whose
schedule of liabiti es may chance to embrace bet
ter names than is contained in his list Of solvent
debts. These cases are rare. however, and gener-
ally confined TO country dealers. who have been so
unfortunate as to choose a mining locality where
the bed rock is found 10 pitch the wrong way. 1t
is understood, however that such applications are
quite numerous in some of the towns and cities be
low. All such have our sympathy, and when they
again find themselves in funds, are advised TO in
vest in Oroville, where everything is s'lovely and
serene, and where it is easier TO mine out the dust
wherewith TO discharge their Indebtedness than to
thread the intricate meshes of the insolvency law
The OphIr FIGURING mills are contributing much
to the business and prosperity Of Oroviie and, we
trust also to the farming community of the sur
rounding country. 10 whom it affords home mar
ket for grain. The constant string of teams to the
mills for the past MONTH have filed its capacious
granaries to overlooking, Notwithstanding the con-
slant puff of its tireess engine, and the steady
whirr of its three four feet French burrs and its
lesser under-run employed in grinding flour for |
shipment TO China and for mule feed. Although |
turning out from two hundred and fifty to four hun
dred barrels of -four per day it is remarkable that
none is allowed to accumul ate on hand. The bust |
ness thus growing up is in accordance with the |
oftexpressed belief that OToville was the natural /
location for first class houring mill With an ex
tensive scope of rich agricultural country on one
side, and an extensive mining region as market /
the other side the Ophir mills have only to keep
up steam to become the best paying property in
the State. The fact that every store-house in town
is being filled with grain, and not an extra cart
load of flovr is allowed to accumu late. is pretty
good evidence of the business doing in this line it
it should not be considered indication that other
kinds of manufacturing establishments could
flourish in this locality equally as well. People
will it after awhile, and instead of trying to do
business in out of the way localities will conclude
to set up shop where there is possibility of calling
business around them, and opening the avenue to
prosperity and wealth. The natural advantages of
Orovile in this respect will be acknowledged after
awhile, and the manufactures demanded by her
position will spring up here.
The failure to erect bridge across Feather river
the present season, has had damaging effect on
town and country. 1t is serions drawback to the
farming community to the north and west of Orc
vile, who are hauling grain and wool this market
well as to those doing business here as the want
of bridge must necessarily send much business
around US that would otherwise be transacted here
The crossing of loaded teams over ferries is always
at tended with more or less delay side from the
nconv fence nterposed by the steep grades arising
from the banks of the river. The ferries are safe
and good, but at best but a makeshift, and
ought to have been superseded long since by
bridge. II was generally supposed at the time that
the company organized last spring, for such pur
pose, would erect bridge during the past summer.
but for some reason unknown to the outside world,
it has not been accomplished. If anything farther
has been accomplished than the organization of the
company and the issuing of straw receipts for the
ten per cent. required to be paid in by law to ena-
BILE the company to hold the franchise it is certain
ly not manifest through timber and workmen on
the ground. Those interested in the efficient do
nothing bridge company organized last spring will
please pardon any unfavorabe mention of their in-
activity. and indulge us in the expression of the
belief that they might have built the bridge and
thus supplied the great want of an extensive com
munty, and secured to themselves valuable pro-
perty. If they cannot do so they should "sell out
to those who can If they cannot do either, they
should retire from the field. and no longer bar the
way TO the contamination of work so important to
the interests of the county. If they will turn their
franchise to the Trustees of the Oroville School
District, we will guarantee the completion of the
bridge in less than year from date. They be-
lieve in business. If you doubt it. try them.