Year: 1859

We have had the pleasure of meeting, this
week, with the able and efficient President
of the Sierra Turnpike Company, Alonzo
Platt, Esq, who gives us very satisfactory
information relative to the work now pro-
crossing on the road between this place and
Downievile The whole work will be done
by the first of July next, and paid for, with
out mortgaging the road, provided the people
of Marysville will take an interest in the en-


terprse and subscribe such an amount as


may naturally be expected at their hands


The road once open to Downeville, we have


then direct line of communication with the


Sink of the Humboldt, through the Yuba


Pass, the lo,ceSt and best pass in the whole


range of the Sierra Nevada. There is n


good natural buggy road through that Pass
at this moment.) A road once opon to the
Sink of the Humboldt, letter and newspaper


matter can be delivered from ST. Louis, Uid
Salt Lake, to Msrysville sooner than it can
possibly arrive at Placerville, let alone Sac
ramento As soon as this road is opened


express matter will be delivered regularly
at this place, by J. c. Langton, earlier than 1T
will reach either Sacramento or Placervllle,
and the General Government will be bound,
in Justice to this section, to establish branch
mail line from Salt Lake or at least from the
Sink Of the Humboldt to Marysville. The
best natural road that ever entered Califor-
mia from the Plains is this road through the
Yuba Pass, and there is no doubt but that
the whole tide of emigration from the East.
ern States will finally pour through that
Pass. The reason that emigration has not
passed through it heretofore is because the
Pass is of comparatively recent discovery,
bet in the declaration that it is the lowest
and best pass ever discovered through the
Sierra Nevada, we challenge and defy con
tradiction. If ever railroad is built on the
Central Route, the Yuba Pass Is the point
through which it must come into California.


Marysyille should be awake to the impor-
tance of opening this road at once 20 TIE
Sink of the humboldt, and thus securing all
inc uldll WcllltleS Wnlcn IL WONlu certainly
command rs well as the thousand benefits
which would accrue from the influx Of an
annual emigration over it. Blind indeed
must that man he who Goes not see the i'm
M ense and incnlculabe benefit to this city
and to this whole northern section of the
country, which must accrue from this enter
prise. Almost straight line from this place
to Salt Lake Making Marysville nearer to
the Sink Of the Humboldt than Placerviile is
or can be enabling us to receive news from
the Atlantic StCtessooner than it can possibly
he received at Pacerville or Sacramento
What more could we ask for, and who is
there that would supinely fold hi, arms in
view of such a prospect?


In the heat of political contest, we can
not devote as much space to this matter as
its Importance demands, but we do hope that
business msn, capitalists and all the true
friends of Marysville will nevertheless open
their eyes to the subject and contribute lib
orally to what is undoubtedly the work, in
with the San Francisco and Marys.
Vile Railroad, for building up the lasting
of our beautiful and heaven
favored city.