Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-04-17

cu.,,ssr. d. T., April 1l,b, 1865

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cu,rrssr, d. T., April 1l,h, 1868.
r,,rSp DIck:-You will perceive by
this mat old Doc. is in the Magic City and
as lew items relative 10 the place may not
be uninteresting will cndcavcr TO give
you my observations and experience in this
peculiar and anomalous City Of the Pialns
Seven months ago 1herc now stands WEI
built city, teeming with life and all tue a."
and confusion Of metropolitan towns " '"s
East. a city containing over e.oVo Ae''''
e,,arnr;sing business men and women, nov
ha''se or cabin could have been found
r;,hin the area oil 100 miles. The red man
bsll undsputed sway, and the buffalo and
antelope grazed undisturbed in our now
thronged and busy streets. The city is
most beautifully laid out upon level plain
In exact squares, the streets being exactly
100 feet vide. and naturally maeadamixed
With fnc qusrtx gravel. We have two ho-
tells that will compare in size and table &C.
comm rotations with the far.iamed Burtis.-
We have three daily news papers Is ably
d we'll conducted as the average in our
Western towns. We have enc weekly,
just started, devoted mostly, however, 10 the
mining interests Of quartz owners in the
Block Hills, and place spectators At Sweet
Water. We have SO dry goods and clothing
stores, II drug stores, over 80 groceries,
l20 saloons, 10 dance-bouses, 6 biiiafd-sa.
looms, and from ~ to ID wholesale grocer
les, some IL hotels, over SO restaurants
and boarding houses, and from IL to 10
corra's OF the largest capacity Tor holding
stock.
The amount OF merchandise here, and ar
irving and departing daily is almost fabu-
lous. What first attracts the attention Of
the newcomer in the immense OK and mule
trains departing daily for Salt Lake, Dem
yer and the Rocky Mountains, Sweet Water
and tho Black Hills, each team dr ring two
ponderous wagons loaded with from G,0O0
10 10000 pounds freight. drawn by eight
| yoke heavy oattle, and 26 Of these Noah =
| Arks constitute train. Thtn, at times a
train may be seen from three TO five miles
long. These facts will give you some ides
Of the magnitude of the freighiing interests
Of Cheyenne, aud ! do not exaggerate when
| tell you that in the liveliest times in Da
vcnport, more merchandise, provisions, DC,
&c, arrives in, and leaves this town
daily than changes hands In your city
in one month Immense warehouses
arc filed to repleton and still there
is no diminution in the quantity, Is every
train rather increases than diminishes. We
have many permanent brick and adobe build
ings, but py far the pr dominance OF mate
rial is wood, and with our high prairie
winds you will not he surprised At any time
70 learn that the Magic City, like the early
cities Of California, has gone up in one
grand conflagration. We now come to con
alder the state Of society here. You or,
aware that NIL new towns springing into q
istence in few months, far remote from
the outer world, uncontrolled by .he stern
or principles Of law and order, based upoI
tho restraining influences Of public opinion
cause to congregate all the baser element
Of our race generally in excess Of the bette
classes that make up respectable communi
: ties. Such is the case with Us. We hav
in our mercantile and mechanical and pro
fessional classes a. enterprisine, high mind
Z ed and honorable men as can BE- found II
our eastern cities, bat the sporting fratsrni
! ty, both male and female, far outnumbe
! the former classes-and so desperate Ar
S many of these characters. defying law en-
= the rights Of their fellow men, that "
n have been compelled to resort to summar,
Iutln~ W protect ourselves. MUCH as W
. deprecate the taking OF law out OF tn
il hands of its administrators, there are case
i where stern necessity and self-pr servatiol
o demands ii. Such has been our case, an,
}. we feel that the result has been thus 10
y srlutary. We haye several very respecta
ble families, and more arriving daily, hu
# the large majority Of the fair sex here a..
II the ira,l and faileE, numbering FROM COO I
,, 40, think, Of the lowest and most deprs
4 ed Of Gods fallen creatures, and tho dis
II gusting scenes daily enacted in our streets
+ npen ami sharnelcssly, would pu' to tn
L blush one not wholly depiaved.
You ask, is Cheyenne pcrmancncy, OF
, will il prove, like Julesburg, svsnescent
and with the morning light and mir follow
the destinies oil the Pacific liaiiroad through
the Black Hills and westward across tn
I plains TO Brisham's dominons Of doubl
: and quadruple blessedness Il 10 . ques
T. ton tor a few months of time to settle. an
= | should prefer to have my capital in Ii,
e tie more tangible form than in corner LOT
u IN the magic city in 1869.
7 CuNANf0AN