Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
A NEW RAILROAD.
The Willows and Clear Lake Scheme
Is Sacramento to be Roxcotted

Ahc bhAo"e anu SItdT Lake Scn6ule-
Is Sacramento to be Boycotted.
EDS. REcoRD-UNroN: About the 18th OF
| March the Bee tried to interest the Sacra-
mento public in a proposed scheme tic unite
Willows-n hich is about seventy-five miles
north of Davisville-with Lakeport, near
Clear Lake, and thence to Cloverdale and
Donahue's railway, connecting with San
Rafael and the steam ferry to San Fran
cisco. OF course it may be desirable to
reach Lakeport or Clear Lake, and Bart
lett Springs otherwise than by stage routes
as at present; but Sacramentans by little
energy can obtain a good line of railway to
Lakeport direct, either via Davisyille and
Madison and Cache creek, or via Davisville
Woodland and Madison and Cache creek
All that is required is for Sacramentans, or
the Central Pacific, or Southern Pacific, or
California Pacific division TO agree with the
Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railway Com
pany that if they will put their line
through to Lakeport from Madison, then
we will unite with them at Madison, and
the sooner this is done the better, not only
that Lake county and western Yolo may
have the advantages of transit with Sacra-
mento, but that Sacramento can enjoy such
direct transit with Lake county at greatly re-
duced cost, besides Sacramento pouring
large amount of her eastern trade more d.
rect into western Yolo and Lake counties, as
well as tourists and travellers in search of
health at the springs, SO numerous in Lake
county.
The produce market of Davisville would
doubtless be benefited by the additional
stimulus given to all western Yolo ranchers
by the new railway facilities, and the i'm
rlrOVp1 oil around ircroocaI
ulaton, etc, would doubtless make the
line profitable one, although for some
prudential reasons, its completion from
Madison TO Clear Lake has been left in
allegiance SO long since, the company incor-
porated and subscribed their requisite CAPT.
tai about nine years ago. Apparently it
looks to a Sacramentan, they made the
greatest mistake then in not carrying their
line through TO Lakeport and inviting Sac
ramento 10 join them between Dayisville
and Madison
For want of such cooperation western
Yolo and Lake counties have been shut of
from Us, when a large trade and passenger
traffic might have been enjoyed for many
years already. However, Ii is never too
late to lnend' and it is now the more ur-
gent that such mutual railway facilities are
obtained because of the recent proposal for
The Willows and Lakeport route. If it was
clear then to almost any thinking person
that the Willows route was in the interest
of DonGhue and detrimental 10 Sacramento.
it is now Il clear case of boycott to Sacra-
mentn and the Central or Southern Pacific,
by the Union Pacific, in conjunction with
D@nalide and his Cloyerdale line Now,
then, Sacramentans don't object TO Donahue
connecting Cloverdale and Lakeport
On The contrary, if the Madison and
.qrRpDrf railway hrtiIt Of s,--ilI
gladly reach the Russian River Valley by
ours and their routes But this matter of
The Union Pacific trying to head Off and
cripple the Central Pacific via Deer creek,
Tehama and Chico, and from thence
10 willows, and crossways to Bartlett
Springs, and Lakeport, and Cioverdale and
San Francisco by Donahues line, as nicely
outlined in the Chico Chronicle and San
Francisco Eraminer, should open our eyes
at once TO see the necessity for building the
Cache creek railroad to Lakeport, so that
Eastern travel and goods may be forwarded
direct through Sacramento to Lake county,
and western Yolo, as well as Sonoma and
Napa counties, which we should still have
the keys Of But a line through Davisville
to Calistoga and HealdsDurg, or Santa
Rosa, if practicable, would be as good for
Sacramento, nearly, as one via Madison and
Cache creek and Lakeport.
1t Is essential, however, that the machin-
atoms of the Union Pacific to touch at
Chico and cross to Willows, Bartlett
Springs and Lakeport, should be met, as
early as possible, by the Central Pacific or
Southern Pacific, and Sacramento, getting
more direct western traffic via Davisviile,
otherwise most of the Eastern travel and
trade for Sonoma, Napa and Lake counties,
will be DETECTED via Chico and Willows
The Cache creek route ought to be COM
peted soon, as all the grades are known,
and we can reach Clear Lake in less than
eighty miles from Socram ento, or fifty
three from Madison. The Bee must have
been blndfolded to recommend Willows
to Sacramento as a route to lakeport; for
independent of the treacherous boycotting
scheme of the Union Pacific Railway, the
Willows route seems allied to, to cut Sac
ramento ont of the route of Eastern travel
and trade even if that scheme had not
been on foot at all, still the absurdity of
Sacramentans being asked to go ninety
miles to Willows, and then some ninety
more TO Lakeport, through Colusa county,
IS so glaringly apparent that the Bees
recommendation was itself incomprehensi-
bic. But every Sacramentan should urge
the Board OF Trade and the Central Pacific
to come to our rescue, and provide us with
direct railway westerly. A glance at the
map shows what we want and what we
don't want. 4. +. GODDARD.
March %, 1886.