The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-03-30

TaE CENTRAL PAcIFIc RAILRoAD CoxrAxY
perceive the mistake they made in locating their
road against what was plainly designated as the
Batural railroad system Of the State. and are now
endeavoriag TO correct far practicable without
abandoning their bulhead choice Of route. Big
extending their road from Sacramento, around the
eastern side of the Bay of San Francisco. TO 1erha
Buena. OF Goat Island Struggle a. this company
may, their read is doomed 10 disgrace and decay.
ike other huge foIes Of scheuing men, from the
moment of It's completion. when Government bonds
and money wrung by taxation from the people,
shall cease 10 flow into their treasury. Extend il
where they may. they will sill find themselves
bafled and defeated by their own folly rising up
in Judgment against them. San Francisco begins
to see it, and the Tears of that city not atoseth
er allayed by the determination Of the company TO
connect Goat Island with Dutch Flat by rail. The
completion of the Msrysvile Vallejo railroad will
relieve the Pacific OF the carrying trade Of the
Sacramento Valley, which might have been center
ed on road. had the latter company chosen tie
natural and proper route. The completion of the
road Oregon will add TO the business and lmpor-
lance OF the Vallejo road. for the latter viii aaId
as good depot for shipment San Francisco and
producers viii not pay for the extra miles of rail
roading to transport it to Goat Island. With the
advantage in distance, and consequent cheapness
of fret ght it is easy TO see TO that there will be
no transfer of freight or passengers 10 the Pacific
road at Sacramento. The railroad will extend from
Vallejo TO Oregon, independent Of any connection
with the Dutch Flat concern, which has been so
efectually bockaiel at Cisco during the past win
ter. With railroad up the Sacramento Valley in
successful operation, how long does the reader sup
pose if will be thereafter before a railroad will be
built up the practical of Feather river, to the
plains of Nevada, over which cars from New York
may pass at all seasons? VIII the public interest
be satisfied with snow bound route, when it is
easy to procure unobstructed OF course not
The result then be, ultimately that the pres
sent location of the Central Pacific Rrilroad win
cause its destruction. The San Francisco
Nersietter is approximating TO this natural result
when it says:
ave shall be compelled, just as certainly as the
sun rose this morning. TO divide our commerce with
Vallejo or some other point that may be the ter
minus OF the railway system. Lose Goat Island
and You loose the last-the only chance-to prevent
Vallejo taking from MATERIAL very material
share of our besiness. If we allow the outward
current of produce 10 centre in Vallejo hoping TO
draw it thence by rail, shall be woefuy deceiv
ed. We shall be i'll no better plight than we now
IL will cost fifteen cents per hundred u
bring wheat down by schooner, and twenty cents to
bring it by rail, l. E. shall still be compelled to
send our ships to Vallejo to load the wheat Again;
One third of the wheat crop of the State is concen
trated at Vallejo. Wheat can there be put aboard
ship for fifteen cents per 100 pounds less than it
be sent here and put aboard for and therefore the
ship must go there to get il. II China ship should
arrive here with cargo consisting largely OF rice
for laborers on the railroad, and take an outward
cargo OF wheat to Ireland, everything will be ready
at Vallejo To load her within week. She has to
go there Tor her wheat. observe, whether She dis
charge there or not because it costs ten per cent
less than it does here. Vallejo has better water
front than we have. And, taken altogether, this
situation is a tolerably big fact, make much or
as little OF 1t as you please
With railroad, independent of the Central
Pacific. extnnding from Vallejo up through the
Sacramento Valley, considered in connection with
the foregoing fact" would no, only be paying
for the entire valley. Running the Pacific road to
Goat Island will not change it. With the latter
road snow bound in the mountains, and the Feath
er river pass Lying inyitingly open, who doubts
where the transatlantic railroad will ultimately
ter California. And who are really the Pacific and
Atlantic Railroad builders Does the title belong
to those who have invoked private enterprise TO
build railroad where it should naturally be; to
those Government bummers who are building a
railroad in the eternal SHOWS of the Nevada Noun
taius, and through whose Misrepresentation the
late lamented President proclaimed the official
fIlschood that foothills of the mountains extended
TO within seven miles of Sacramento, because by
such legal fiction the company could draw a greater
amount of government bonds