The weekly Butte record., 1867-03-16

/ WRoSG-The Quincy Union, speaking of the
| proposition to improve the wagon road between
Oroviile and Quincy. thinks it Is q movement in
the right direction At last, and says: The citi-
zens OF Oroyilie have taxed themselves heavily and
expended large amount of money to make the
Dogtown road the read from Oroville to Indian
Valley. We have fault to find with them on
that account. in fact, admit their Eberalify and
enterprise the subject OF roads, bat opposition
to Chico was the cause of it ALL Our neighbor is in
error, and will not object we presume to being plac
ed right By the mention of few facts In the first
place, the road to Quincy is nearly ali toll road from
Bidwell Bar, and should have been kept in good
repair without public appropriation 1t was only
last summer that the Union stated the tolls for
round trip of team over it at SIS. 1t seems to
that amount of toll ought to secure road for that
distance. Then. again the people Of OroFille were
the first in California TO send stage coach drawn
by four amin ais, over the mountains, merely to
demonstrate that this was practible route. That
was ten years ago. and they have felt some pride in
improving the route since, not much for the pur-
pose of reaching this that town, for the pur-
pose of establishing practical route through the
mountains. The discovery of gold in Idaho and
Montana. gave greater importance to the route and
the people of Oroviie have endeayored to make it
a road that would attract the trade and travel of
those territories, and accommodate such other
places as it might. They began it long before
Chico was thought of as a town, and have prosecu-
ted it to the extent of their means. If any opposi-
ton has arisen in this connection it is not the Of
spring Of the citizens of Orovie. They have act
ed steadily upon single proposition for the past
ten years, and have built railroad to aid in
bringing the route into general use. Within the
past few years, however, Chico became place of
some importance, aud Bidwell had opposed the
railroad and the efforts Of Orovie to open the
route through the mountains, he conceived the in
sane idea of building road from Chico to intersect
the road from Oroye, and turn the trade
down the Sacramento river, instead of permitting
it to pass over the Orove railroad, and thus has.
ten the extension of the railroad up the valley.
He desired the railroad to be extended from Orc
vile to Chico, of course but seemed unwilling to
permit the trade to pass it until it had reached
that point. His position in Congress, and the
false maps of the Chico route that were put FORTH
enabled him to deceive the Postal Department, and
turn the forty or fifty miles of road he had
made to ntersect the Orovile road, into the great
Chico and Idaho road, with tri-weekly mail line
terminating at Chico. OF course the people of
Orosille were disguised with such lttleaess. and
foreseeing the Inevitable failure of the route, as
their selfish representative had put itup, continued
their efforts at making it good road, in the hope
that the lttleness and seltishness of General Bid
well might not prevent at least portion of the
trade and travel of Idaho from passing this
route. If there has been an effort to make any
road the road to Indian Valley it is the part of
the citizens of Chico, and not of the citizens of
Oroville We do not, however, object to that bat
only to the putting up of the through route in such
manner to destroy it. The citizens of Oroville
sufficiently public spirited, to appreciate the
benefit of roads and aid in their construction, and
will always endeayor to do their share, confident ia
the belief that seltishness will not always be ena-
bled to render useless Improvements designed for
public benefit