The weekly Butte record., 1867-04-13
oRovILLE, SATURDAY, APRIL 18th
Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Co

The survey of the Feather River route during
one of the severest winters experienced on the
Pacific Coast without encountering any imped-
ment from snow has led TO the formation of a COM
pany for the construction of railroad it, The
Quincy Union of the 9th inst. states that:
Articles of incorporation of the Oroyille and Vir
gnia City Railroad have been signed and sent to
the Office Of the Secretary of State to be filed. The
object OF the company Ia, as its name imports, to
bnd Railroad connecting Oroville with Virginia
City and to tap the Pacific Railroad at Truckee
Meadows. This road will be located on the North
Fork route. About one hundred and ten miles Of
the route is in this State, and in compliance with
the laws of the State, the sum of 81 ,000 or ten
per cent Of the 81 600 per mile required by law to
he subscribed for, has been collected and paid to
the Treasurer OF the company. which sum will be
expended in surveys, maps, etc. during the pres
ent season. The names OF the incorpOrat0rs are as
follows: W. A. Bolnger r. C. Chambers, C. T.
Kaulback F. B. Whiting, S. NJ. Goodwin, r. H.
Fairchd n. C. Cunningham c. o. Bolinger, P.
d. Shaw. At a meeting of the company held in
this town Tuesday last, W. A. Bolinger was
elected President F. b. hitting. Secretary, R. c.
Chambers, Treasurer and Messrs. kaulback. Good
win, Bolinger, Whiting and Bolinger, Directors.
The capital stock of the company Is fixed at five
millions of dollars. The principal place of business
is at Quincy. The company mean business. There
is power behind the throne that will be felt, and
the time will come. at no distant day, either, when
the shrill shrieks of the steam whistle, will rever-
berate through the mountains and valleys of Plu-
mas, warning the people to clear ths track for the
locomotive the Oroville and Virginia City Rail-
road.
The route, we are informed, will reach Virginia
City, from Orovlle in l55 miles. 1t will reach
altitude of only 500 feet and from all preliminary
observations made will not have grade of over
fifty feet 10 the mile the whole route. Better
than all, and which fact can be attested by hun.
dreds of our citizens snow never falls on any por
ton of the route to greater depth than two or two
and half feet Quincy is on the line of the pro
posed road, and is only 1927 feet above the level of
the and ii Is notorious fact that the road from
here to Virginia City, via Beckwourth Pass is open
the year. With the Vallejo and Marysville, and
the Northern California Railroads pointing directly
TO such route across the Sierra Nevadas, with
base near the centre of commerce on the Paclnc,
expect TO see this new enterprise command the
attention of railroad interests of our whole State,
outside of the Central Pacific Dutch Flat failure.
Money and humbnggery, we admit, may do almost
any thing, but for railroad route, reaching an al
titude of 5000 feet. with grades of ll6 feet per
mile, and through a wide belt of country covered
Annually with twenty or thirty feet OF snow to
compete with one connecting the same points,
reaching but little over one halt the altitude. not
one halt the grade and free from obstruction the
whole year is something in this practical age that
cannot be done.
Extol the energy of the Pacific Railroad Compa
Nv as much as they may, and applaud their lavish
expenditure Of other peoples money upon this
g,andest enterprise of the age the figures in refer
to the Feather route tell an unvarn>hed and
unanswerabe tale which capitalists aud the people
must and will heed.
The past winter has aroused anxious inquiry
into this subject throughout Northern and Central
California. san Francisco is becoming alive TO the
important subject but is still doubtless looking for
ward to the realization of her great wants, through
the means of the Central Pacific road. San Fran
cisco capital should not be longer hnmbugged into
an apathy upon this, TO her. vital question. What
she wants. and must have, is not only railroad.
but one over which the commerce of the world now
opening up to her, can pass. easily. cheaply, and
in an unobstructed stream through winter as well
rs summer, to the interior well the Atlantic
coast She cannot afford to run down the coast SIX
or seven hundred miles 10 find a route for such a
road. Ii must be more direct aud central, and We
tell San Francisco now, what the future viii pro
claim to her in more emphatic language. that the
Feather River route is the one and the only one
which will answer her purposes. Then let her citi-
zens. the people of Northern and Central Calitor-
mia, the North California and Vallejo and Marys-
vile Railroad Companies but arouse themselves to
the full Importance OF this question. and give
helping hand to this new enterprise. The company
Just organized. we are informed, will commence
immediately the survey, location and mapping of
the proposed route, and it will not be long before
the public viii be presented with array OF facts
upon this subject which will challenge the atten
ton OF all 10 this route. and lead the way such
public and private action of cur people will give
TO us such railroad AS the country demands.