The weekly Butte record., 1866-05-12

Ro UfKS TO SrSASyILLk-lt Is known that semi
weekly mail service between OroviIle and Susan
vile, has been regularly made for years. daring all
seasons Of the year. with p few intern psions from
the storms of winter, IS have occurred between
Lincoln and Narysyille, or between Oroville and
Chico While the Oroyille route has been thus
servicable, the routes from Red Bluff and from
Chico have beon closed during the winter We are
informed BY gentleman, resident of Chico, that
nothing passed over that route since last fail until
Nessrs Spence & Bro, merchants at Humboldt.
who shipped their goods through Oroville, some
two or three weeks since, were prevailed upon by
promises Of assistance from Chico put them over
the snow Notwithstanding there were no stages
or teams passing over the route from Chico, q
notice was kept posted in the railroad Office at Sac
ramento that. stages were '.adrertised'' to leave
Chico for Susanville ence week. A contemptible
quibbe to keep the route before the public, until
the summer solstice shoud enable the route to be
travelled; or until Gen. BidweIl shou succeed in
swindling the Post Office Department out of IS 500
annually to put the route throu Oh snow or no snow
Gen. Wood, the present mail contractor on the
route between OrorIe and Susanville, offered to
perform seniweekly mail service over this route
for 81 500 per annum. The Public are informed
however, bv the Chico Couronf, of Saturday last
that the route from Orovlle to Susanyiile has been
discontinued and the route le, from Susanyille to
Chico for $l0,0o per annum. Gen. Bidwell's infu-
ence has been acknowledged potential in this mat
ter. But this swiudle of the Post Office Depart
ment and the conversion of the public mail routes
to his own selfish purposes, could only have been
accomplished through Misrepresentation most fla
grant and objectionable. He has, however, gra-
ciously condescendsd to extend his potential infiu-
ence over the people along the route from Orovile
to Susanvie far enough to grant them weekly
horse mail to Humhug Valley. We fancy that we
see our very Hon. Representative. and gallant
Brigadier of our Militia, astride mule delivering
this mail at Messila Valley, Msgalia, and other
Post Offices the route to Humbug Valley, and
running the gauntlet of the hardy miners and stur-
dy and indignant populace he has so grossly swim
died and misrepresented. The experience of our
Assessor, in Dry Greek last winter will be
found mild in comparison with those Of the
man who shall attempt to deliver General Bid
wells Jackass mail. along the stage route from
Oroville to SusaHville. The General will have to
deliver il in person, for trip or two, until the
people along the route shall become accustomed
TO the imposition. Nothing but his potential in
fuence will be found adequate to bring about their
submission to the outrage he seeks to practice upon
them. The idea of making the terminus Of the
great California and Idaho mail and stage route.
twenty-three miles from railroad communication
with Marysve, Sacramento and San Francisco is
John Bidweonian in the extreme We fancy we
can see this potential Representative, seated un
der the outrageous foliage of Chico, commanding
aiI- Cal, i
Idaho to assemble at Chico if they want TO be car
ried through to Idaho. How the noble Digger In
dians belonging to this potential Representative
ranch viii have to sweat and labor to get the trade
of the East Indies from the landing for weekly
sternwheel steamers the Sacramento t o Chico,
to pass over the only practicable route to Idaho.
That portion of the Idaho mail that may arrive at
Orove by railroad. we suppose will have to be
transported hence to the California terminus of
this great Idaho mail route in baskets by the
Mohalas employed on this potential Representa-
| tives ranch, and there be taken up by the great
California and Idaho mail stage line, and sent
There will be no turning back then from the only
practicable route to Idaho, to go by the way of
Oroville, as Dr.. Fsky, of the U. S. Army, was re-
Gently compelled to do to reach his command at
Smoke Creek. Ten thousand dollars per annum ,
AMI the potential influence OF our Honest Rep
resenative, ought certainly to put through Oh the
only practicable route to Idaho what 81 500 per
annuln, and the business energy of General Wood,
can the route from Orovlle. If twenty-five
thousard dollars t amounts to that in four years)
thus swinded out of the Post Office Department by
our Honest Representative in order to terminate an
important mail route at his own ranch and distant
from railroad communication with the principal
cities of California. does not enable the stages to
! go over the route in the winter, we fancy we can
see our potential Representative turn with great
dignity to him of the Courant (Which paper will
then have grown to the size of the San Francisco
Alta. and be issued daily3 with the inquiry, Bsh-
! op did you not state several occasions as well
in your issue of May 5th. sc. that There has not
been week during the year but what more or less
| teams have passed over the route? = "Yes. Sir;
| but you must remember tfa. We gave one johnson
a thousand dollars to go on to the summit with OK
en- and Sled stay there during tine winter and drive
the bulls through the snow once a week, so we
could say that without direct Justification, hood
wink old granny Dennison, of the Postal Depart
ment and enable you to get fat contract. The
route is entirely practicable, be assured. Don't be
$50 easily hoaxed.'' Will send up a reporter in
balloon, and have the road ixed that the stages
will get through without further delay The
whole is SO excessively absurd, that we may well
doubt the correctness of the reported action of the
Postal authorities. 1t seems difficult to under
stand why Chico should be made the terminus Of
this important mail route while it remains isolated
and discon nected with railroad communication. 1t
is difficult to understand why the Postal authorities
should discontinue the mail over route with pop
ulation sufficient to maintain an express line, and
pay more than double to have it carried over
route entirely devoid of population, with the ex-
ception OF an occasional whisky and way station.
/ The route from Oroville to Susanville contains
population of f We hundred bu sy men, miners pitch
manufactures, farmers and lumberman, for every
single individual that can be found on the Chico
route after leaving the Sacramento valley. Thro'
this busy and teeming and thriving population on
the best and most direct route from railroad COM
| munication to Susanvile, the bid by responsible
parties, for performing semi weekly service, was
81 500; but through the misrepresentation and sell
fish scheming of Bidwell whom the people honored
and trusted with their confidence, the authorities
are induced to pay $4,000 annually for the same