The weekly Butte record., 1866-05-26
TIE Reason wHr.-1be people of Idaho

-'talllof1la soma eWnere mai nature fole1Ced !,
and If the interests OF California cannot be
brought to bear to open these routes, why let
Webfoot carry the day. and LET California sit
AID look on and suek lis fugers. Il will serve
| it right, and, in this connection, need hardly
dwell on the advantages 10 California and
Idaho that would result il road were opened
between the two ; not opened as it is already
opened and good, bat kept clear Of Indians
for the accommodation Of passengers and
freight, and We only ask for ore seasons travel
to make the road permanent and & lasting
benefit to both countries" The reason why
this has not been done, and cannot be done, is
as plain as handspike: Freight from San
Francisco is delivered a, Portland, Oregon,
usually for $40 per ton. Those who, from
their positions, control the routes from Idaho
into California, aciua.ed by their selfish mo-
tives only, direct those routes to points where
freight from San Francisco costs more than i,
does to Portland. Freight is now carried be-
tween San Francisco and Portland at IS per
ton. by the same navigation company who
charge s. for landing it st MarEsville, and
So for putting II Of at Chico Landing, which
our Representative 10 Congress has selfshly
made the terminus OF the California and Idaho
mail and freight route. If j, is sent to Dutch
Fiat the freight charges are higher than they
are to Portland OR Marysville, only to meet
mountainous wagon road connecting with q
esert and crazy grass route to Idaho that
kills the cattle and horses Of teamsters. That
is not able to compete with the w b foot"
route. VIII the business men of Idaho pay Sl2
per ton to Chico, when they can have ii car
ried to Portland at So. We say nothing
about Marysville, where freight is landed ct
s. per ton. That is nothing. They are not
represented in Congress, nor 10 Dutch Flat,
are quarreliiDg with the President, and the
"Web foot" route has nothing to fear from
that quarter That might have been point
on route that had possible chance to COM
pete with the Oregon route. if the travel had
not been pnrposely directed from that point by
private interests. 1t is the cheapest point at
which freight can be landed on any route to
Idaho except that by the way of Portland,
but is left entirely out of consideration, in the
choice of routes TO be assisted by government,
because the private interests OF those in au-
lhority demand their location elsewhere. II
stands thus then: Freight to Portland 50
per ton; TO Red Bluff $40; to Chico Land
ing, Sl2; to Oroville, via. Marysvilie, an av-
erage of 81; the charges for freight to Dutch
Flat, by The c. 2. R. r., is hot given in their
public advertisements The above is sufficient
however TO show why the California routes
are not available TO the business men of Idaho
II is because they are controlled By unprinci
pied and selfish demagogues, who destroy
them for public service, by directing them to
points where private interests alone are bene-
fitted, and the public interests of Idaho ard
California are ignored Their advantages are
in favor of the Portland route, and however
much they may desire to open a direct route to
California, they are prevented from doing so
by se,fshness that appropriates them to pri-
vate interests. The California route 10 Idaho
is terminated at point where there is but
weekly steamer communication with San
Francisco, and where it costs four times
as mach to place freight as il does to place it
in Portland. Oregon. Aud this was done at
the demand Of private interests, while shorter
route, over a better natural read would have
connected it with daily railroad communica
ton with San Francisco.
But the nuisance is not to end by thus ren
dering useless all attempts of Idaho 10 opea
interior wagon communication with Gala. 1t
is to extend itself to railroad enterprises
and perpetrate second edition Of the Dutch
Fiat swndle upon The government and the
public Of the Pacific coast. BIDwELL 5 route
for a railroad is up Deer Creek, a small stream
thai has lis rise in the western slope Of the
mountains. The Feather river extends en-
tirely through the Nevada mountains, and IS
practicable for railroad The eleven ihous-
and laborers employed upon the Dutch Fiat
mountains, would grade tie Feather river
route 10 Nevada for double track, in ninety
days. From B5ckwiih pass, Long valley ex-
tends 10 Honey Lake. But why talk Of prac-
tical routes when selfish apd falsifyng dema-
gogues have the power TO render such enter
prises unavailable for public use By appropri-
atng them fer their private use and benefit?
GREAr Is DuTcH FLAT-"The shortest aad
best route, as the Sacramento Union calls it.
Bat jadgiug from the following fact, stated in
the Carson Appeal, there must be hitch in
the arrangements somewhere
at is rather significant fact that the new
coaches. the coal and iron used at the black
smiths shops, which have TO be transported
/ from Sacramento TO poiats on the Dutch Flat
stage route for the use OF the Company. are
brought by the way Of Carson ard over the
Placervilie route. Such is the fact and there
is no denying it"
Quick WoRK-Tbe San Juan stage was
stopped oB the morning of the 5tb. and rob.
bed OF about $4,000. by three men. STEVE
VERSsRp, the Sheriff OF Nevada county,
took alter them with = Heary rifle, ard by
O'Clock the some day, had killed all three Of
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