Year: 1860

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Truckee Turnpike Company, for the purpose
of constructing good toll road from Plum
Valley, in Sierra county, up the ridge of the
North Yuba by way of Forest City and
through the Henness Pass at the head of the
| Middle Yuba, to Truckee Meadows in Utah


and thence to the silver mines and Carson
City. The capital stock of the company
was fixed at S30,000 contracts were let on
the road, and an assessment of ten per cent
levied on each share of stock. The enter
prise was thus fairly inaugurated and seemed
certain of successful prosecution, when
one of the heaviest stockholders, followed
by number who had subscribed to smaller
amount, became dissatisfied with the action
OF the company and withdrew, leaving it
with barely enough stockholders to transact
business and temporarily preventing any
further progress. But the company anpre-
ciated too fully the superiority of the route
they had selected for a atransmontane wagon
road, and the advantages sure to result from
the construction of the latter, to abandon
it, although proposition was made to re


duce the amount of capital stock and limit
the 'o6jsct of the company to building good
road as far.a the summit


Pending the consideration of this propo-
stion, Mr.. James Haworth, the energetic
and sagacious President Of the CAL Stage

Company, who had satisfied himself that the
Henness Pass route is the most direct and
feasible one for a stage line from Marysyille
to Western Utah, came forward and took
stock in the company to the amount of
$4,000 Through his influence, also, sew
eral we'll known Marysvlle capitalists have
been induced this week to take $1,000 more,
and the remainder of what was thrown up
by discontented members has been subscribed
for by citizens of this township. Thus the
original amount of $4,000 is all taken by
reliable parties. The first assessment of ten
per cent, amounting to $4,000, has beea
nearly all paid in, and as soon as a record
of this fact can be made in the office of the
Clerk of Sierra county, the final organiza-
tion of the Truckee Turnpike Company will
be legally perfected and it can proceed to
the speedy accomplishment of its object


Contracts to the amount of about 81 900
have already been completed ia most sat
isfactory manner, as detailed ia previous
issues of the PRESS. Other contracts will
be let forthwith, commencing at Cold Spring
Hill, and the work on the entire route to the
summit and thence dowu the eastern slope
to Truckee Meadows, will be pushed forward
as fast as the snow recedes. The work will
be under the able supervision of Messrs.
Freeman, Clark & Wood, who have had
thorough experience in road building and
have constructed the finest highways in Ne
Directors are confident that the turnpike
will be in good travelling condition for stages
and freight wagons By the first of June, and
that it will be entirely finished by the first
or fifteenth of July. In very short time
from now, Smith and Falls passenger train
will be withdrawn from the Jamison route,
and placed upon the Henness Pass route, or
Truckee Turnpike, which reduces the dis
tance from Marysville to Virginia City about
thirty-fve miles. BY next week the stages
of the California Stage Company will go
from Marysville to Forest City uia North San
Juan and the Trsckee Turnpike, in one day,
making daily trips; and in a week or two
afterwards they will 60 as far as Downieville.
As soon as the Henness Pass is open and the
road sufficiently improved, say by the first
of June, the line of stages will be extended
to Virginia OF Carson City, and make the
eRtire distance of 136 miles between the
latter points and Marysville in two days.
| These statements we make authoritatively.
| The Henness Pass, or Truckee Turnpike
route, from Marysville pia North San Juan
and Forest CITY. will then be unquestiunably
the very best highway across the Sierra Ne
vada. 1t follows nearly Straight line IN
north of east direction to Truckee Meedows
keeping well up on the south side OF the
Middle Yuba ridge till the summit valleys
are reached, thence proceeding through a
succession of charming pasture valleys down
the eastern slope, after which the road is
nearly level and needs hardly any improve
ment. 1t will be on moro uniform grade
than the road between this place and Marys


vile, and one quite as easy, and as heavy
loads can be hauled over it. Even last fall


when the road was in its natural condition


going over instead of around some of the


worst hills, heavy loads of hay and mer


chandize were hauled over it constantly


The snow is not an insuperable obstacle tc


winter travel, for by next winter there viii


be numerous stations along the route, tn.


proprietors of which will cheerfully agree t.


keep it open. The narrow belt of deep snow