Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-18
.sTIMATED ACREAGE.
Estimated expenses for running the road
per year.................. GOO m

The above estimates are made on the basis of
the present condition of the country through
which the road is to run. 1t is to be expected
that the road will build up and devotion n con-
stantly increasing business.
In conclusion, we would say that YOUR COM
Inlttee was not fortunate enough to secure the
com any and consultation of any practical rail-
road men from this section. and therefore MANY
points favorable and unfavorable TO the enter
prise were doubtless overlooked 1t is evident
that, to secure to the proposed road its deserv-
ing patronage, the large tracts held near the
| foothills and in the valleys named should he
cut up and made properly available bv being
sold to the incoming people now seeking homes
in this State.
The proposed extension to Leesville if no
farther, would greatly facilitate and increase
the travel TO Bartlett Springs and similar health
resorts III that vicinity, as the summer trim
across the plains would be done away with in
valids and pleasure-seekers would leave the
railroad at Leesyille. and at once meet the
health giving and pleasant change of the
mountain air.
AS regards passenger travel from this point
and san Francisco the road cannot be much
else than feeder to the Northern Railway
Company. Being direct to the river, and its
being compelled to break bulk at the junction
for all rail traffic, nearly its entire freight will
go to the river consequently to this CITY Tho
river leverage should also give the road a sound
basis. for as good prices should be paid for
produce in Antelope valley. as is now paid
at points on the Northern road in the
vicinity of where the Colusa road
crosses it. The Colusa Narrow-gauge Rail
road and its proposed extension in order to
assume an Importance deserving of the enter
prise. should be closely allied to the river
freight transportation interest. This brings rs
to the consideration of the most important
feature to us of the enterprise and which the
business interests of this city cannot well over
look.
The freight business which the Colusa Rail
road would naturally control and bring to the
river, would justify the running of tri-weekly
or daily boats from this city to Colusa Ere
quent and regular communication by steamers
up and down the river to that point, would de-
yelop and build up large local river business
of great value to this city. When we come to
consider the value of the vegetable, fruit and
other similar interests on the river below us
nearly all of which seek the San Francisco
market, by reason of the convenience of the
daily lines of steamers from this point the
probability of similar and still larger interests
being developed at points on the river above us
seems but a natural result Add TO this the pos
sibility of Antelope, Bear and Indian valleys
at the no distant future riyaling Naea valley
in its wonderful productions, and it seems pos
sble for us to realize the fact of thriving busi-
ness being done on the upper Sacramento river,
for which this city viii be the natural basis of
distribution and supply.
JOSEPH STEPHENS,
WILLIAM SHAW
THOMAS n HAN