Year: 1860

the press OF Sacramento City responds
to the call for public works which
promise to inure to her benefit. in
however comparatively triling de-
gree. and the apathy, or outright op-
position shown from the same quarter
to other projects not less feasible but
of vastly more Importance. Thus
good word is repeatedly spoken for
the wagon road via Placerville. for
the California Central railroad, etc.,
but with regard to better transmon-
tame highway and a railroad to Ne
vada which would pour dollars into
the lap of Sacramento where the
Central road would dole out cents, ST.
lence Or sullen hostility is the re-
sponse.


We believe these professed organs
of the people of Sacramento do not
represent real sentiments, and we ap-
peal direct to the trne citizens of Sac
ramento to pass Judgment upon the
facts we are about to present.


First, let them take into serious
consideration the fact that the trade
of the northern portion of Nevada
County. eastern part of Yuba and all
of Sierra goes to Marysville. Next
that the projected railroad from Ma
rysville to Benicia is likely to be con-
structed not long hence. That road
built, and how much loss of travel and
trade is sustained by Sacramento
which might be secured by proper at
teution to her interestsl Let Sacra-
mentans look upon ma p of the State
and consult a table of distances
They will soon discover that railroad
to Nevada ria Auburn must inevita-
bly pour tie whole tide of commerce
of Nevada, Sierra and a portion of
Yuba into or through Sacramento. -
Camptonville in Yuba is but 20 miles
from Nevada, while it is So miles of
worse road to Marysville. Forest City
is IS miles from Nevada and 5S to
Marysvile. A railroad to Nevada
would therefore be 80 miles nearer
Forest City than one 10 Marysville
and must turn the stream Of travel in
this direction. While Marysville is
endeavoring to coatrol the trade of
this section of the tate,rich in wealth,
and to carry it away from Sacramento,
the citizens of the latter place may
becomingly and efectualIy tap and
secure the whole of it. Instead of
spending millions on an ox-bow route
to deplete Marysville, which, in the
event of the construction Of a direct
road to Marysville from Benicia will
be of no comparative, value and only
known in the history of fan ey stock
dealers, Sacramento may be wise in
using her superfuous wealth, if she
haveany,in another direction. tits the
trade of Sierra and Nevada Counties
which makes Marysville proud, which
causes her scorn to be dependency
of Sacramento by means of a rainbow
railroad, and which gives her the pow
er to open for herself an avenue di-
rect to the seaboard. Shorn of this
trade and she is comparatively impo-
tent and must be content to pass her
trade by the way of Sacramento for
years to come. 1t is folly to tell the
people of Marysville, as the press of
Sacramento does. that she is laboring
against her true interests in attempt
ing to build a railroad to Benicia. 1t
is far otherwise. 1t is a master stroke
of policy. Marysville aspires to be


the more than rival OF Sacramento.
She knows that railroad to Benicia
must control for her one half the trade
of Nevada and all the trade of the
counties north of Nevada if nothing
be done to divert it. She is satisfied
that Sacramento shall keep her eyes
on the Placerville road and the ox-bow
rail track to Marysville, Nothing of
that sort will hurt Marysville. She
intends to keep the trade she has ard
to tap the stream of eastern immigra-
ton and trade by a more easy noun
tain pass than a half million dollars
will ever make the Placsrville road to
be.


We ask the true citizens of Sacra-
mento to take the facts into consid-
Grafton, to examine the matters
pertaining to their welfare, to re-
member that railroad to Nevada


would reach the only accessible good
lumber region in the State, and then
Judge according to evidence.


Little to Do.-The Legislature in