Year: 1860




The ROAD OVER THE MOUNTAINS.
In answer to some statements pub
lished in the Nevada JOURNAL in dep
recation of the Placerville route, the
Mountain Democrat remarks;


You have been deceived-imposed
upon. Disinterested persons who
have travelled over both routes assure
us that the Placerville route is far
the best. and they prove it by refer
ring to the preference given to it by
those who have passed over the rival
routes and who are not favorable to
the Placerville route. Gentlemen
from Nevada. Marysville, Mokelumne
Hill, Stockton and other places. who
went to Carson Valley by other
routes. returned to California, reluct>
lantly, by the Placerville route be-
cause the others were impassible.-
Is it reasonable to suppose that team
sters and packers, who travel over
the road frequently would select the
worst routel-and is not the Placer
vile route the only one now in use?
Mere assertion amounts to nothing,
unsupported by proof. Both routes
have been tested and the preference
has been given to the Placervil.e
route even by its enemies; and why!
Because it is the worst, the journal
would have US believe! A road that
is always open and constantly used
must be superior to one that is rarely
used and frequently closed.


We clip the above from the Sacra-
mento Union, a paper that never
publishes scrap of our articles in
proof of the superiority of the Hem
ness over the Placerville route, but
never neglects an opportunity to copy
the merest trash in reply.


The Union knows the above re
marks Of the Mountain Democrat
amount TO nothing. Taken in con.
nection with the article in the JoURN-
AL Which they pretend to answer and
the Mountain Democrat will be found
to resort TO pettifogging as we shall
prove.


Our article stated the reasorss why
travellers to Washoe returned ria the
Placerville route, viz: that large
droves of stock, in consequence Of
the deep in Carson Valley had
been forced over the Placeryille road
and had made it passable, and that
thousands of dollars expended on
that road had been the means of es-
tablishing houses by the way side
nearer to each other than they were
on the Nevada route. The journey
is thus easier for animals from one
house to the other on the former than
on the latter route. We did not as
sert that the Nevada route at this
moment when closed was better to
travel on than the Piacerville route
when open by an accidental circum-
stance. We said, and we still cay.
that nature has done more for our
route than that by Placerville.


The Moautain Democrat triumph>
antly states as proof of the superior
ity of the Placerville route that every
body from all parts of the State pas
ses over it in preference!


They use crotched stick in some
countries to p1ow with; the niggers
use a clumsy grub hoe to work among
tobacco. But does this prove that
sort of plow, aud that sort of hoe are
superior to the elegant moldboard
and the light and shapable hoe!-
When our carriage is broken we are
sometimes compelled to use lumber
wagon to take the family to church.
But is the lumber wagon the best?-
We have followed the track of log
going to the mill through the deep
snow in our school boy days, and
have travelled twice as far iu that
track to reach point, as the dis
tance was by the road, which was
showed up. Was the log track the
bestf Certainly, says the Mounta IN
Democrat, and "of course" chimes
in the Sacramento Union.


Mere assertion without proof
amounts to nothing, says the Placer
vile paper. We assent, and repeat
the corollary-the above from the
Mountain Democrat amounts to
nothing.


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