The weekly Butte record., 1866-06-16

said they have struck mountain OF rock that
it is impossible to get through, and 1t IS no1
proposed to run up along Bear River Valley
to Canyon creek. aud through TO the Summit
on the Henness Pass road. They had better
sdopt the open and practical route OF Feather
river at once.-Butts Record.
The above story has been contradicted again
and again. There is DO truth 10 it-no more
than 10 the stories related by correspondent
of the Bee in regard to material alterations
being made in the plan Of the State Capitol.
and which the Quincy Union and Butte Record
circulate and make such a bugbear out OF.
There is an immense number OF hands engaged
in building the road beyond the point of the
alleged deviation, and DO rock is struck that it
is not easy OF practicable to penetrate.-SGc
rqnlento Union.
The Identical number OF the Sacramento
Union that contains the above, has also the
following in an adjoining column, the two
statements not being separated by more than
the sixteenih of al inch space.
The RAILRoAD.-The Superintendent of the
Central Pacific Railroad writes 10 a friend in
Idaho that the road may GO through the Hum
boldt Pass, following the Humboldt river.
On that route the road would pass within l50
or 200 miles OF Austin.
The above extracts were published last week
We re publish them DOW for the purpose OF
adding the following extract, which We find iD
the Sacramento Un,on, Of the 1lth instant:
AVOIDING THE TUSSEL.-The Dutch Flat
Enquirer Of June 9th, has the following:
We learn that new survey is being made
! by the Central Pacific Railroad Company,
having in view the avoidance of the contem
plated tunnel through the summit of the Sier-
Nevada. The new line will go through sum
nit Valley, whereby the necessity of tunnel
ling will be obviated. AS the rock at the
point where it was intended to cut the tunnel
is extremely hard, and is seemed perpendicu
! larly, much trouble was anticipated 10 blasting
it, aud great danger of caving was dreaded ;
consequently, the railroad company have long
been anxious TO fud some practicable route by
which they could dlverge so as to avoid the
dreaded tunnel. Ia this, it seems they have
happily succeeded.
The above extIacts very effectually show
the character of the Sacramento Union to be
decidedly worthless so far as its truth and We
racity Is concerned. We think we will
have the above extracts sterotyped, for
use whenever the Sacramento Union makes an
assertion it would have the public believe. They
and falsifying Journal that its statements ought
not to have any weight with the public. 1t
has falsifed and misrepresented the interests of
the people Of California aud the nation from
the inception of the Pacific railroad enterprise
until the present day. 1t has thus aided to
lay burden of taxation upon the people OF
California, only 10 be squandered by the
swindng corporation who constitute the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad Company of California.
Did any paper have the manliness TO warn the
people that this railroad company were
squandering the means furnished them for the
construction of national highway, upon a
route that was impracticable, the falsifying
Sacramento Union was ever found ready TO
assure the public ''there is no truth in it,
Did journal in defence of the interests OF the
people, assert that rock had been struck on
that mountain line, that it was impossible to
penetrate, the Sacramento Union could piously
| assure the people that no rock is
struck that it is not easy or practicable to pen
citrate" Did paper assert that this swipd-
ling corporation had been compelled to change
the line of their road, the Sacramento Union
was ready to alay public suspicion of its
co-swlndlers by the assurance that the road is
being built "beyond the point Of the alleged
deviation When the facts may he no longer
concealed from the public, With what matter
of course grace the Union announces that "a
new survey is being made" having in view
the avoidance of the contemplated tunnel -
that the rock is extremely hard, and much
trouble was anticipated in blasting" that "the
company have long been anxious to fiud some
practicable route by which they could diverge,'
etc, etc. What position for paper with
any pretensions TO truth and respectabiltyl
! The facts are that the crowd of Forty
Thieves" known as the Central Pacific Rail.
road Company, never tried TO find practica
bic route for the road that did not give the
DutchFlat wagon road the benefit of It's pres
euce while in process of construction They re.
jected the open aud practicable route Of
Feather river. aud .ilenced the scruples of Mr.
JUDAH, with bonds amounting to a fortune
Then began their swindies upon the national
government, upon the people of the State Of
California, upon San Francisco as city, and
upon every county that could be approached
until they were supplied with means sufficient
TO build the Central Pacific Railroad Up the
Sacramento Valley, through the mountains
along Feather river, and across the plains OF
Nevada to Salt Lake or Denver City, and they
/ have squaudered the means thus furnished by
/ a generous people. in vain eudeavors to reach
Dutch Flat. The Sacramento Union has aid
ed them in practising the imposition by false
hoods which the public canuot fail to see. Is
it matter for establishment that the people
are becoming restiye as the swiudliug and
Interpretations of these scoundrels are being
made manifest Why should not the people
demand with one voice, that the charter of this
gang of public plundereTs should be revoked,
aud the franchise placed 10 the hands of men
who viii consult the public interest instead of
their own, and build this great national road
over practicable route? Why should the
people believe the assertions of the Sacramen-