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rcstf.Editor.APRIL 28, 1860ashington street San lieed Agent for thatt Marysville, are an nmiu and sutocrJp-:e..«» receive advertise this paper in Sacra-:k Meadows.—By•»ckee City, April veezy and Lance ) went on a pros-ck conntry, had wS on their way ort that Indian went with them rect, but a man ineriy of French i been killed.— on the creek, as never returned, )m aftor a -aeaTch om the .fact that two shots at two e others for pro-Dowell has been e two had been he Piute chief, w them a trail to avoid contact *eek or Pit river i with the comaud appeared ieezy returns toquote, has noth-lincs, but iuti-liants and land-enty of money A great deal of rpcnters get big Is is still very ion of the roads ills are all busyle new town of a that fine larges Truckee Mea-inent notice.—e with sill and nters are busily ing hauled for lumber for two ill. Smith andor their passen-? Company will iping poiut. A rs through the a ditch to lt;xm-ee river, which , has also been ral parties have build saSooas, hotel wiil soon ion of travelers.for the interests ariou3 northern on foot. O. M. the entire twen-g from the edge •pen country be-idipg a turnpike d will a VO hi thegs of the river, rn hill. It will e heaviest loads .*tes the line of from the desert e Truedtee Turn-a, and with that om the emigrant[i California, byForest City ande shortest, most I from Utah into1 frame building lumc and Main n to make way edifice. It was, louse erected in h San Juan, and Although but •rigiual cost was crowd of miners en Mr. Green oc-e, and when the^placing it sou'eied at as prepos-tain towns grow owth of this onet in refutation of mountain townsry will open a n the Sierra Nett igbt. He hasheaviest under-dancing, and if ais out of a Cal-As the only way ltz in,” the sights crowd to his is they go on themade application in for a writ of man-1, State Controller, to late Prison Contract,r veto Governor that tor boast* over him svlmt if he is both ? •? Bad taste geiitle-State well and honied in New York of»ciating$o0,000 to thei righteously slain inTBUCKEE TUBNPIKE TO UTAH. Our readers know very well that in February last a company was organized in North San Juan under the name and style of the Truckee Turnpike Company, for the purpose of constructing a 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 $30,000 ; contracts were let on the road, and an assessment of ten per cent, levied on each share of stock. The enterprise was thus fairly inaugurated and seemed certain of a successful prosecution, \yhen one of the heaviest stockholders, followed by a number w ho had subscribed to a smaller amount, became dissatisfied with the action of the company and withdrew, leaving .it with barely enough stockholders to .transactbusiness and temporarily .preventing .any further progress. But the oorqpany appreciated too fully the superiority of the route •they toad selected for a transmontane wagonroad, and the advantages sure to result from the construction of the latter, to abandon it, although a proposition was made to re duce the amount of capital stock and limit the objtct of the company to building a good road as far.as the summitPending the consideration of this proposition, Mr. James Haworth, the energetic and sagacious President of the Cal. Stage Company, who had satisfied himself that the Ileuness Pass route is the most direct and feasible one for a stage line from Marysville to Western Utah, came forward and took Stock in the company to the amount of $5,000. Through his iufluence, also, several well known Marysville capitalists have been induced this week to take $5,000 more, and the remainder of what was thrown up by discontented members has been subscribed for by citizens of this township. Thu3 the original amount of $30,000 is all taken byreliable parties. The first assessment of ten per cent., amounting to $3,000, has been nearly all paid in, and as soou as a recordof this -fact nan be made in the office of theClerk of Sierra county, the final organization 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 $1,000 Lave already been completed in a most satisfactory manner, as detailed in 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 dow'u the CAstern slope to Truckee Meadows, will be pushed forward as fast as the snow recodes. The work will be under the able supervision of Messrs. Freeman, Clark Wood, who have had thorough experience iu road building and have constructed the finest highways in Nevada county, if not in the mountains. The Directors are confident that the turnpike will be In good traveling 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 a very short time from now, Smith and Fall’s passenger train m ill be withdrawn from the Jamison route, and*placed upon the Henness Pass route, or Truckee Turnpike, which reduces the distance from Marysvilleto Virginia City about thirty-five miles. By next week the stages of the California Stage Company will go from Marysville to Forest City via North San Juan and the Truckee Turnpike, in oue day, making daily trips; and in a week or two afterwards they will go 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 or Carson City, and make the entire distance of 13G miles between the latter points and Marysville in two days.— These statements we make authoritatively.The Heuness Pas?, or Truckee Turnpikeroute, from Marysville via North San Juan and Forest Cl*J* tiieri be unquestionably the very best highway across the Sierra Nevada. It follows a nearly s‘raS^t ^ne 1° a north of east direction to Truckee MtMows, 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 improvement. It will be on a more uniform grade than the road between this place nnd Marys ville, 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 load3 of hay and merchandize were hauled over it constantly.— The snow is not an insuperable obstacle to winter travel, for by next winter there will be numerous stations along the route, the proprietors of which will cheerfully agree to keep it open. The narrow belt of deep snow can be, and we are assured will be, passed by the stages on sleigh runners. A consid erable portion of the route is adapted to settlement for haying, stock raising, lumbering and even agricultural purposes, and is already settling up, beiug fenced and built upon. We have traveled over the wholeColume obliging ( ing partic“This i week and ing, owiuj Humes in of several out 8tiffici The Ditclfeet a cle large port has been will be vi| for the a the fact i •were abou part of tlMemphis i ditch.I see nlt; bia Hill, perseverin diaims. j toeen'boug3f thclt;e-xalt;•it would a poor mini think, raoother weel Somethin' P. Hubbar ably, will is close a that are m ular yields flume, whi •ing rapid!, Empire clu ting in oi be cotnplt men and oMere art tbi3 vioin; Valley cle run. Sam $l,o 00. •( Mill, tfbtai McCarthy. alized fron hill, abou done equa claims wasSan Jua informatio district, wments she done. Th ing: Bloo Co., Go Co., Suilo; Co.; in a] hands eac probably r inches to of eight c worth of $ eutirely bj 50 or 75 ti 200 feet in completed even withpanics are rock for I Eureka, Sj tunnels an by Welshe foot of pi costing as Companywhich hai years, andEach of t four men,a time. 1 nean thum citizens it numerous those men is between and tempo partly ope The total in the digj labors gi' hose-mam ters, blacl sawmills i ing Clai day, and c sluice luirHumbug opened at Canon af( Co., on A $1,600, a nights—eVl^f * Iequally fit‘oruia Stage Company,a tlioosaud years andarterday says Kirkpat-law.i on W ednesday. Her inght to come over to-country in question, and the statements we •have made, now and heretofore, concerning it and the road penetrating it, can be relied upon a* true. But before three months more the Henness Pass route will speak for itself, and will be acknowledged as the most direct and easy highway at all seasons from Utah to California^ as well as best entitled to bemade the great central trans-continental mail route. We congratulate our citizeee, and the citizens and press of Marysville upon the brilliant prospects of their favorite route.A Fixm of Mr. Ai pianist an tend to I benefit co weeks hei Verein, oi ute their pearance rected by on the vilt; cial ment brated ba self oa tl brace somian, Frerdue admithat ever1 •ticulars v is enough Wettig Clt; finest mxr m unity.Paxby ba the old etiui the south m and blacksiSamelson the summe: bang theirOn Wedn had one of knee, whilii company, o
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