The weekly Butte record., 1867-04-13
oRoy1LLE. SATURDAY. APRIL 18th.


Progressiveness OF Northern California
There il nothing in the womb Of the future more
certain to transpre than that an era Of prosperity
will dawn upon Northern California ere the moon
will have many times filed her horn. The sources
of this prosperity to be found in the two great
enterprises which have received the sanction oil the
public and which are to be carried into execu-
ton at no distant day. The first OF these Is the
Orovilie and Virginia City Railroad. up the North
Fork Of Feather River. to connect with the Pacific
Railroad at the Truckee Meadows. AS viii be seen
In another column, company has already been
formed under the general railroad incorporation
law of the State, money subscribed and paid in and
the surveys commenced. The second is the Cali
fornia and Oregon Railroad which will connect
at the State line with the Oregon Central Railroad
This company was incorporated in 1866, under the
general laws Of Oregon, with capital Of two mil
lion Of dollars In addition to this the company
has already received the Congressional land grant
of three and half millions of acres of fine agrieu
tural grazing and timber lands, and the State has
assumed the payment of seven per cent interest On
one million of dollars of the companyis bonds, run
ming for twenty years. which ensures the com
nencement of the work sometime the ensuing
month. The road through our own borders to con-
meet with this, will pass through Butte, Tehama,
Shasta, Trinity and Sskiyou counties. The lands
along this route above Shasta, are comparatively
valueless because of the distance TO market, over
mountain roads. By the building OF collateral
branches, the whole of the lands III the counties
mentioned will be brought into occupation. The
trade with Oregon and the vast mineral region be-
yond, will all find transit this road. And
when the Oroville and Virginia City Railroad is
completed, the two will sweep the entire trade of
the Territories of Washington, Idaho, Nevada,
and, perhaps, Montana and Utah. Population will
always follow up the lines of railroad, and we
may safely calculate that every acre of available
land along those routes and their tributaries, will
be brought under cultivation. What a future does
this present of the noble State in which destiny
is fixed The construction of these roads will at
tract population to occupy the lands through which
they pass and the prodacts of their industry both
mineral and agricultural, will find market in our
cities and towns, from whence all their supplies
will be drawn. All that is wanted to ensure the
completion of these great works of internal i'm
provemeut is capital and capital is always to
new to where there is the greatest demand for it,
and TO where II pays pest. IL Wouu pe suanSe,
indeed, if California adding. as she does annually
forty-eight millions in bullion to the wealth OF the
world could not retain sufficient of her own treas
ure to construct works so essential to the develop
ment of her natural resources and which would en-
able her to pay back hundred fold the amount re-
qured. There is an memorable, crying necessity
for these works, and the capital must be had. To
obtain it, Authorization on the part of the people
more Immediately interested, must be had. In an
other article we have suggested the first steps to
be taken. Let the press in the Northern part of
the State awaken the people to the importance of
the subject. Let them elect representatives to the
Legislature pledged to labor increasingly for the
accomplishment of the work and success will as
suredly follow. Butte and Plumas counties are vi
tally interested in these enterprises and we trust
there will be no tagging on the part of their people
As for Oroville, the completion of these two roads
will make her the second city in California be
cause the two roads will unite here. We have wa
ter power to do the manufacturing for the whole
State and other facilities not possessed by other
towns. If our people would but awaken from the
lethargy which benumbs their senses, they would
realize that Oroville is great city in embryo.