Year: 1866

SUsASvILLE, Nov. "A, 1886.


EDIIog Butte REcoRp:-This burgh has been
pretty lively for the last two three weeks more
so than it has been for some time previous. The
Steward House, kept by your old Oroville friend,
J. I.Sieward, formerly of the International has
been full to overaowing- But that is nothing
strange when there is any business at all, for Stew
ard knows how to keep hotel" The town is
beautifully situated at the head of Honey Lake
Valley, and its people are enterprising. Three
years ago there were but few little huts to be
here. Now we have a nice little mountain town
Fine private residences springing up all around,
with beautifully arranged gardens, and plenty of
the finest of fruit and vegetables. The town is
supplied with pure spring water from works erec-
ted by our old fellow 1ownsman, Gov. Roop- And
all We want now TO make this town lively and of
some importance, is good stage line between 0ro-
vile and Idaho so as to bring the travel this way.
instead of compelling it to go by the way of Dusch
Flat and Virginia City, it now does. This is the
shortest and best route. That is admitted by every
one familiar with it. What We want is a stage line
to take passengers through. True, we have some
thing that passes through here. 1t is called the
great Chico and Idaho Stage Line. And that, in
stead of being benefit is public nuisance. For
every passenger that have heard speak of it, says
it is one of the greatest humbugs of the kind they
have ever met with, and they never would travel
the id road again, If they could go some other
way. think if there is law in this State to pun
ish people for cruelty to poor dumb beasts this
pany ought to be arrested and fined the highest
penalty the law can nct, let that be what it may,
for of all the poor miserable. hafstarved, broken
down, weak kneed looking creatures ever saw, for
stage stock this companys beats them all. And
passengers say those that come in here are fine
horses compared with others on the road between
here and Ruby. So can form no idea what they
can be- As for grain il is something the poor things
do not know the smell of let alone its taste. Hay
is all they get, and poor quality at that-except
il is the long the drivers put on their backs to
get them along. Every team on the road has to
double. 1t is seventeen miles to the first station
and have often seen these poor ponies-they
not be called anything else for they too small to
be called horses-cOme in here, and turn around
and go right back again, making "a miles. If that
is not disgrace to humanity, should like to know
what is. One of the passengers that arrived by
the Stage Of last Monday night said, in my pres
ence, that the passengers had to buy barley with
with their own money to feed the hcrses, so they
could get through after having paid their fare.
And this is the great Chico and Idaho Stage Line!
Now, Mr.. Editor, so far as am concerned, do not
care which way the travel comes, whether it be by
the way of Chico or Humbug Valley. 1t IS all the
same to rne. But | would like to see the travel to
Idaho this route, for, as l said before it
is the shortest and best. And under present cir
cumstances, would advise all those coming to Su-
Susanville, to come by the way of Humbug Valley,
for they have good Stages, well fed horses, good
roads, and the best of accommodations at the Long
vile Hotel, where passengers remain over night.
And they will also twenty five miles of travel.
1t has been raining here all day. Yours, &c.


ADMIRAL DALGREN is about to leave Washington
to assume command of the South Pacific squadron