The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-12-04

Letter from West virginia hoy out
In ColorAdo..HIow he Got there
from CllIcago...Ifop Long IL took.
and Shat ft Cost..4incidents by inc
GEoRoRrowN, ConbRApo, l
ri M Nov. %, 1867. !
Editors 1nteiliocneer.
i promised 10 write you an occasion.
nj letter from the Rocky Mountains,
and l will begin by an Imperfect nc.
count Of how you get here, Yonr tieIS.
81 10 Ohtcago will cost you Si02, you
leave on the evening train and II In
clined % enjoy life you win probably
,ake.A. sleeping car, which turha out 70
pc ~ nice an affair Of the kind as can
be found 10 America and cost YOU 81, 80.
the Great Western Railway d, smooth
and solld, and you enjoy the wfld: bano.
rama q Iowa even though ills Unlike.
Your three meals on the Gfeat Western
Railway, cost you &c Is, Your little
omnibus ticket carries you over 10
George Francis Trains big hotel the,
"CoEsens Houseih where you are po.
litely received by some nice young
men who wear big specs and do the
clefking. The table 10 good, the daFkies
pretty well trained, the rooms only
tolerable4tthe were only "RetlinR
hxedn when was there) land the price
n 20 per day. You leave on the even.
ing train, and pay g for your berth
and 81 for your meals it's'dark when
you get to Cheyenne, and you begin to
think your last scene. Perhaps you
can get place 70 sleep, and perhaps
you can'h One thing you can be sure
OF, and that Is 81 80 which somebody
Will get for the use OF q soft plank
lat least that was my fate, or
next thing to II. Il slept with
the Hon. john q. A. Rollins and
fifteen other men. John q. and
Iwehtto bed before the other fifteen
aud we could turn over independent Of
each other. But the rest had 10
spoon" consequently they, had to
turn all together. There was straw
mattrass between me and the board, but
the end was turned up TO some for a
pilloWi this made II too short fora man
with myBtyle of legs. l went to sleep
with my legs curled up, but the posIsh
was uresome, so they went out about u
loot and q half You can get good
square meal ut Billy Wise's shebang for
a dollar, and your mixed drinks costs
you forty cents. Whisky, straight, a
quarter. There are about three thou.
sand people In Cheyenne, including
Twelve companies Of United States sol.
ulefs at thefort. Lots are worth from
one 10 three thousand dollars. There
u not really u great deal Of
u changing hands ut these figures.
The eating houses and saloons are ma.
king money. Cheyenne is being built
In respectable styls-all wood. It 10
neatly laid of, and covers nearly US
much ground as Denver. They think
4 VIII be a permanent place, because
the Railroad Company intend building
an engine house and machine shop
there, and because the Denver branch
Will start there, and because they have
hne coal In abundance, or within
Twelve miles. There Is no doubt about
the coal, but l must confess there is
some doubt In my mind about the
other contingencies. Therefore Ohey.
enne may not be anything more than
North Platte and Julesburg.
Wells, Fargo d Co. leave at three,
and then your trouble begins. Gener-
ally you're crowded, and II You are, II
gets awful tiresome before the fifteen
hours are up. Ifyou are goodslnger
you can get along tolerably well. Your
supper aud breakfast cost you 81 so,
but they give you the best kind or
You will have time to take a bath
and look about you u little before
dinner In DenVer-then you have the
evening TO yourself, as the mountain
couch does notstart until next morning
at six. %
There Is plenty to amuse a stranger
IN Denver for several evenings, and the
sleep You get Is delicious.
The Pacific and Planters House are
good hotels-they give all you ought to
want, and only charge q so. The con.
trast between them and those first -cla8s
hotels In America Is great, but like
THESE best. l like 10 soc u man glad
when | trade with him. Those first
Glass fellows are, us II general thing,
very Hristocrntic. They charge like
blazes and think nothing OF nsking
you to climb seven pair OF stairs TO gel
a place to sleep.
,bSt youi ulhlleE III u WaySlue
Inn at The foot Of Gray hill, and It costs
81 80, but you think II cheap. 1t is
only a little after two 2. NJ, when you
dash into Central City, which Is the
largest mining town In the Territory.
II is the centre OF our gold mining re-.
glon.
This letter would be a good thing II
Blyard Taylor and one hundred and
my Editors had not done the same
thing only the other day. Well, that's
their fault. Next time I'll try 10 give
you some practical facts which the one
hundred and tiity editors and Bayard
Taylor don't know. Yours,
' 4. A. MINER.