Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05

The Oakland Times, in referring 10 the
resumption of work upon the California
and Oregon Railroad, and the benefit that
would be derived from its completion, saws
In considering the advantages of the com
pietion of the California and Oregon Rail
road into Oregon, connecting them with
the Oregon system of railroads. one very
important fact must not be lost sight Of, and
that is California's early matured fruit can
find market in Oregon. Idaho, Washing
ton Territory and British Columbia before
the fruits of those sections ripen. This. to
our fruit-growers, is of great importance.
for they want every market that can posi-
bly, be secured, so as to sell adyantageouSly
the rapidly increasing products of the
orchard. The merchants of those sections
will visit the metropolis of this State
oftener with land communication. for the
dread of passage by water keeps many from
coming. With the completion of the road
a large increase in the trade, more particu-
larly from central and southern oregon,
can be confidently looked for. In return a
large percentage of the surplus of the pro-
ducts from the farms in southern and cen
trail Oregon will seek us for market
Taking the leSsened charters for ships to
European ports from San Francisco when
compared with the rates ruling from Port
land, and the wheat grown in Douglas and
Jackson counties can be marketed cheaper
here than in Portland
1t may not be out of place. in consider
ing this subject, TO reproduce part of an
editorial which appeared in the Petaluma
Courier. The Courier says: While sus-
tanning the course of our Representative in
Congress- Mr.. Henley. in the main for he
only carried out the instructions of his
constituents, and in favor OF generally for
feiting lands not earned by the railroads
under their contracts with the Government.
we think there should be some discrimina-
ton and exceptions to the proposed whole
sale forfeiture. For instance we would
except from the bill now before the House.
the California and Oregon road, and we
would do this not in the interest of the
railroad company, but more especially for
the benefit of the people directly interested
in its completion. 1t is a fact that the
part of this road still to be completed
is the most difficult and expensive piece
of road ever built in the Tinted
States. The lands bordering it being
so far from market are almost
worthless, without railway communi-
cation, and the Government would
actually make money by giving the alter
| nate sections along its route This road.
too, would be a great benefit to San Fran
CISCO and why its merchants, knowing its
importance to the little trade left them
from the northern country, should, in all
this controversy, have remained silent, is
one of the mysteries. Viewing its import
ance to them, as we do, a more cowardly or
indifferent body of business men, as to
their own future welfare, cannot be found
in any great city outside of California.
While the speedy building of this road will
greatly benefit the northern part of the
State, how can the granting of the alternate
sections along its line iniure the people in
Sonoma county or the southern part of the
State? As we have said before, the road
mentioned should be exempted from the
sweeping forfeiture provisions of the bill
now before Congress, not in the interest of
the railroad, but in an act of simple justice
to the people directly interested in its COM
pletion; and the sooner this is done the
better it will be for at least the northern
part of the State"
The Red Bluff Sentinel speaking upon the
same subject, says;
Not only will the Central Pacific recover
the trade lost by the Northern Pacific but
the completion of the road will open up
and develop a trade in Northern California
alone that will astonish the most violent
opponents of the railway company. Thous-
ands and tens of thousands of acres of
grain and fruit land will be sought and Gull
tlyated mllllonS upon mlll0nS OF feet OF
the finest lumber in the world will be cut
and shipped to home and foreign markets:
untold millions of hidden treasure in the
depths of the earth will be discovered and
brought into active circulation fruit Gull
ture, grape culture. stock-raising. flour and
lumber mills, and score of other indus
tries will be the grand results of the COM
pletion of this gigantic enterprise.
Millions of acres of Government and rail-
road lands will be pre-empted, homesteaded
or bought, and happy homes made for those
now homeless in the Old World and the
great northwest who are coming to Califor-
MIA to remain permanently, and in COM
mercial point of view, teeming millions of
wealth will be poured into the lap of Sac
ramento and San Francisco that now goes
East by the Northern Pacific and ocean
steamers. Ali along the line of the Cali
fornia and Oregon road, from the boundary
line between this State and Oregon, bust
ness of all kinds will receive auickening
impulse, and all branches of trade will be
greatly benefited. The completion of this
road will be to Northern California what
the building of the Trans-continental road
was to California-an era of prosperity and
material advancementp not known in twenty
years.