Year: 1861

FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. I5, 1861.


PINE STREET BRIDGE.-Some little excite
ment has been created growing out of a
petition which has been signed by many OF
the heaviest property owners of the city,
praying for power to be granted the City
Trustees to build bridge over Deer Greek
on the site of the old one. A number OF
citizens have gotten up a remonstrance
against the proposed act of the Legislature.


While we like to see fair and free ex-
preston of opinion upon all matters OF
public concern, we cannot help saying that
in our opinion those who signed the remon-
STRANGE against building the Pine street
bridge are doing justice to neither the pub
1ic nor themselves. To build bridge at
the place contemplated is an expensive af-
fair, we admit. But it will cost no such
amount as mentioned by its opposers. The
place has been examined and measured suf-
6cientIy accurate to determine about the
probable cost. Possibly the sum may be
fve thousand dollars it may reach six
thousand. The city need not pay all of this
however Individuals stand ready to sub
scribe literally, and as bridge there is the
only direct means of getting upon the
county road, and as the county has paid
literally towards the construction of other
bridges of far less accommodation to the
public, she ought to contribute to this
The bridge is due to the inhabitants of the
city living on the other side of Deer Creek,
who have for years paid their taxes for the
support of q city government and city i'm
proyements, and have received nothing
whatever in return. For whatever streets
they have they can thank only themselves,
We presume not one of those who remon-
strate against building the bridge will OBJ
ject to taking the regular tax, and a con-
siderable sum annually it is, of the Nevada
FIGURING Mill, and of the forty or fifty fam
lilies who live on the south side of Deer
Creek. They never have objected and it
would be strange if they ever did object
Some of them propose to build some sort
of bridge by subscription. The PROPOSE
tion comes from men who have never been
known to give dollar voluntarily for any
public purpose, no matter what. The old
bridge was built by subscription and there
is more than one man in the city who gave
six hundred dollars for its construction. If
lef: to be built by subscription few men
must furnish the means, for in all commu-
mites there is a large number of men who
leave the marks of their nails on every dime
they give for public Improvements.


If men will but consider the subject in a
proper light we believe they will come to
the conclusion that the bridge is necessary
ard that, in the long run, all things consid-
cred, it is the best place to erect bridge
to reach the city from the south. True, the
stream is wide and the banks high, yet only
one bridge is required, whereas, on the old
road three are necessary, any one of which
broken down renders access to the city i'm
possible. The necessary rock and earth to
build lasting bridge is on or near the spot
where they are required. The road is
county road, and the old road is turnpike.
The Pine street road is the shortest by
considerable to the center of the city, and
A good, substantial bridge once erected on
the site and the expense afterwards need
be little. Floods cannot carry it away as
they have done the other bridges and are
likely to do again. And, finally, we ought
to have two ways of coming into town from
the south, so that in case of accidents on
one road the city will be accessible at all
times.