Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-24
SHARP R.i,r..d Talk.

ana other wagon road purposes. This
route is practicable the year round for q
wagon road. It Is the only route extend
ing completely through the Nevada noun
tafns that 70 not, more or less obstructed
by snow during the winter months. A
wagon road over it, will be Of more value
to California and Nevada than q railroad
over the Dutch Flat route, that will be
blockaded by everlasting shows. Mr.. Ju-
dab, now deceased, but formerly Chief
Engineer OF the Central Pacific Company,
after a personal inspection Of the Feather
river route, pronounced 1t the only one
through the Nevada mountains that could
be relied upon for practical service during
the year; but the Company owned the
Dutch Flat wagon road, and the great
National Pacific Railroad must be made
an auxiliary Of that turnpike. 1t was pos
slble, by Misrepresentation, to procure
government bonds and lands for this
route, as the national authorities were far
removed from the scene, run their railroad
into the mountains as far as practicable,
and secure the trade of Nevada by wagon
the rest Of the distance, and then open up
the desert and Humboldt route to Idaho
and Montana. 1t was q part Of the swim
die 10 induce President Lincoln to ofici-
ally declare that the foothills of the Ne
vada mountains extended TO. within seven
miles of Sacramento, by means Of which
this humbug snow-bound wagon rail-
road company realized from the govern
ment $4,000 per mile for building their
railroad across the Sacramento valley, to
connect with the Dutch Flat and Nevada
wagon road. The four hundred thousand
dollars they received from the City of San
Francisco, is likely to be sq%uandered by
surveying parties hunting a pass through
the mountains. It is reported that these
parties start out from Dutch Flat, running
beautiful grades along the slopes Of the
mountains, but they invariably bring them
around to Dutch Flat again. In desper-
alton they attempted a tunnel, but were
obliged to abandon that. Since these
events have developed the impracticability
Of the route, and the enormity Of the
swindle practiced upon the peo-
| pie, the company have fallen back upon
their intrenchments, and are engaged in
demonstrating to the public through'their
organ, the Sacramento Union, that, with
their railroad extended a few miles above
Dutch Flat, they have the best and short
est route to Idaho and Montana. That is
all there is Of this great transatlantic
railroad from Sacramento. For this pur-
pose have the government and people
been swindled out Of millions of dollars
in lands, bonds and money. The annuity
the tax gatherer is now collecting from
the people of California, should be stop.
ped. The swindle has gone far enough.
The Dutch Flat Wagon Road Company
have not yet sapped the foundations of
Justice, though their ultimate aim is the
entire s~ubjugation of the people Of the
State to their swindling purposes. Let
the people refuse to pay this annuity tax,
and appeal TO the Supreme Court Of the
State. There is yet justice enough in that
honorable body to protect the people
against the enforcement Of this tax. or
cause it to be expended upon a route over
which it is possible to construct a rail-
road.
While this spirit Of speculation is ram
pant in the State, and public enterprises
and mail routes are made to subserve the
private interests Of individuals and In
faithful representatives, the people of Plu.
mas and Butte counties will best advance
their own interests, apd the interests Of
+he State and nation aelarge, by the con-
struction Of this wagon road, from Orc.
vile. up Feather river, and through Beck
with's Pass to Nevada. They will thus
demonstrate its entire practicability for
wagon road and railroad purpose, and 1t
must ultimately be adopted as the only
open route for the great national highway
into California. Companies may appro-
pirate the government asslstance-Repre-
sentatives in Congress may steal the mail
routes from the public and run them to
and from their own ranches, charging the
government thousands Of dollars annual
" therefor; but such enterprises are ephe.
neral and will pass away with the tenn
porary power of the dishonest men who
use their public positions for the subser-
vience of their private aims. But the gap
of the Feather river, which has been re-
jpcted by these builders. is as eternal as
the mountains that block their way by
other routes. 1t is practicable for q rail.
road. The business interest Of the coun-
try demand a serviceable railroad. Ne
vada will assist. 1t is a practicable rail-
road to Virginia City, to Honey Lake, to
Colorado, to Idaho, to Oregon, to Mon
tana, to St. Louis and to Lake Superior.
Business interests and the energy and en-
terprise of the people between Oroville
and Sacramento, have already built over
seventy miles of railroad on this route
without the aid Of government subsidies.
If we but demonstrate its practicability
by a wagon road, the railroad will follow.
Public interests will demand it, and 1t
will be built on q practicable route
Butte Record.