White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-12-05
Correspondence.

Correspondence.
(For the Chiefly
Letter from the Rllfns.
Fl. MoRoAN, CoLoRADo, Nov. Is. 1867.
The cars on the Pacific Railroad leave Oms-
ha at six (6) in the evening. arrive at North
Platte the next morning for breakfast, and at
Julesburg at LAS. When the road is complet-
ed to Cheyenne, they will arrive there in the
evening, making the trip from Omaha to Chey-
enc, (Which will. for The present. be the termi-
nus Of the road, ;, in abont- q or 81 hours. The
railroad stations are froniS5 to Is miles apart /;
good buildings, Of uniform appearance, and
considerable architectural beauty, large and
commodious, that reflect credit on the Compa-
ny, and put to shame the depots and stations
on most of our Eastern roads. At each station
is telegraph Office. under the charge Of the
Railroad Company, and doing not much, il any,
business except for the railroad. The road is
in much better condition than expected to find
it, Judging from the severe descriptions the
correspondents of some of our Eeastern papers
have given oft. Il ID as smooth as new roads
usually are, and appears to be well constructed
in every respect. Their rolling stock is of the
iuest description, the best that could be con
structed, and everything connected with 1t ap-
pears to be first, class.
Thirty five (35) miles from Omaha, at Ere.
mont, We take supper. Then nights sleep in
one Of Pullman's spacious sleeping cars, where
you can rest as comfortably as in your own bed.
Up in the moraing-perhaps earlier than is Gus.
tomary-at least il affected me this way-and
We find ourselves tearing alsng dead. level
plain. We are now on the plains, where We
can see antelope constantly, on the opposite
side of the river buffalo, and the passengers are
amusing themselves BY shooting at antelope
and csyotes oil the morning. On our left is
the Platte River, filed with it's inuumerable
islands, succession Of sand bars now, in the
proportion of three parts sand and two parts
water, and, we're il not for this quicksand, ford
able at any place. At Julesburg waded. OF
rather torded, the river, to Fl. Sedgwick. and
found is not over two feet in depth at the deep
est place and this was only one channel-mosi
of the way there we're but few inches Of water
A singular river, this Platte: very wide, at
some places three miles and over, and an aver.
age width three times that of the Missouri
river.
Early in the Spring. rushing along bank-full,
overhowing its bottoms in the Summer. al.
most completely drying up. in many places
not particle of water; 50 that in the old days
of big trains. freightes and pilgrims. digging
in the bed of the river had to be resorted to, To
get water for stock.
But We lef. those cars tearing along at g.
40 gait, and must return to them. We cross
the North Fork of the Platte at North Platte,
on good pile bridge, and take breakfast with
Keith, who used to be Supt. of Ben. Holidays
stage line, but is now trying his hand at hotel
keeping, feeding passengers and employees of
the railroad, and making not more than $50
to 5000 per day. This town is nothing bn. a
railroad town, inhabited by railroad men, and
not many but railroad dbuildings-lround house,
store houses, shops Of various descriptions, ho-
tells. etc, Here we leave the two sleeping cars.
change conductors, hitch on fresh engine, and
20 ahead again, over the same plain, the same
river to our left, the same sand bluffs to our
right "a good many miles from US in some
places on the river at others, go deep cutting
had to be done through them in places, before
the track was laid the passengers still anus
ing themselves shooting at antelope and wolves.
A few hours ride brings Us to Julesburs-not
the Julesburg of 5000 Inhabitants it was few
months ago, but q def1nct town. of perhaps
300 or 400 people, and nearly all of them pre-
pairing to leave Immediately. Most of the
buildings have been moved, and the remainder
soon will be. Wells, Fargo & Co. still have
their headquarters here, and they have Eve
large store-hou but these are portable, and
will be moved to Cheyenne as soon as the rail-
road % completed to that place. which will be
in few days, and their stages, instead Of run
ming from Julesburg to Denver, as they bave
seen doing, will connect with the cars at Chey-
enne, and two stages per day will be run from
the latter place to Denver-in fact, the division
agents are now engaged in moving the stage
stock from the Platte River 10 their new route.
The entire removal Will be effected within the
next ten days, and then the glory of Julesburg
will have departed forever. Her large shops
and vast stors-Lssses; her dancs houses and
gambling heIls ; her floating population of g.
600 or 5000. will be among the things that we're,
and single building. used . railroad station
will marx the spot where lived and died Jules
burg.
Cheyenne is just now The town. Atevery sta
ton, in every Office, on the cars, at the military
posts and forts, among every group Of men, the
glories Of Cheyenne are talked about. The peo-
pie in this section Of the country have talked
Cheyenne 20 much, that their mouths involun-
tarily shape the word, and It pronounbes itself !;
and when they see . newcomer. they shoot
Cheyenne at him out of their mouths. like a
blank cartridge out Of . cannon, and keep their
mouths constantly open for this express pur-
pose. They load and Are 20 fast, think they
must be breech- -loaasrs saw . man in Jules
burg, thought had known in days Of yere
accosted him. and inquired his name. He
shouted Cheyenne. The vretshsd man had &C.
quired the habit Of drinking sirce sav him
last, think il may have been that constant
thought Of Cheyenne had rendered him tempo