Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-13
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.

The main line of this great thorough
fare is now complete from Omaha to
Cheyenne (Shyeu), ut tho foot of the
Black Hills, 5l7 miles from Omaha, and
nearly two thousand miles of continu-
Gus rail from New York.
The temporary terminus, Cheyenne,
is II veritablc mushroom growth, aston
ishing even those accustomed to the
vigorous uprising Of frontier cities. a
correspondent writing from thence to
the Omaha Herald says that "three
months since, it was a bowling mctrop-
Oils" And judging from his description
we should say that, whether "mctropo-
lis" be too strong or not, the howl is
not overdrawu. The military pulled up
the stakes of q whole caravan of squat
tors on the railroad lands II few weeks
ago; and the bowls and curses were ter
rible. Almost every kind Of business
is carried on. Hotels, banks, restau-
rants, rum shops, billiard saloons, ETC.,
abound. There are three daily papers
the Rocky Mountain Star, the Leader and
the Argus. Tho Leader offers its paper
free to its advertising patrons-one of
the most extraordinary bids for prece-
dencs and popularity ever %chronicled.
Forty miles west, in the heart Of the
Black Hills, at Fort Sanders, the From
tier Indez is published; which is the last
paper on the line Of the road until the
Hedette and the Telegraph are reached at
Salt Lake City. Churches and schools
must wait their turn, and the nearest
cemetery is at Platte Station, ut the
l0lst meridian, two hundred miles to
tho east. Cheyenne is located not Jar
from 1919 40' west longitude and 40
l0> north latitude. It is about so miles
nearly north 10y east) from Denver ;
and must at once become the great en-
trepot for the vast mining region Of
which Denver is the metropolis, ms we'll
rs of the Sweetwater mining region to
the northwest, Of which South Pass City
is the largest settlement.
It is this latter region, which now
constitutes Carter county, in Dakotah
Territory, which it is proposed to make
the nucleus Of the new Territory Of
Wyoming. It will be enlarged by n
strip of forty miles wide from the north
ern border Of Colorado, a portion Of the
northeast of Utah and southeast OF
Idaho, and that portion of the State of
Nebraska which lies west of tho lO2d
meridian Gf that State shall consent
This will make a compact territory OF
about a hundred thousand square miles
area, of which Cheyenne may some day
be the metropolis.
Tho wonderful growth Of Cheyenne
(it already has some Eve thousand in
~habitants) leads to another comment.
Cotton is evidently dethroned. Steam
has usurped its place, and rules literal
ly with an iron hand. "The king is
dead; long live the king" In days
gone by cities were the result Of the de-
mands of commerce. Commerce -four
ished upon the thrift of agriculture.
Where there was a fine agricultural
country, il built up an emporium whith-
or it could come to be cheated Of its
surplus earnings. Then this emporium
built roads to connect it with the rest
Of the world and became q commercial
centre. But it needs no Rip Van VIM
kle to be amazed at the change. Now
the nation stretches out its hand and
builds a net work ofroads like a spiders
web over its rich domain. Then the
spectators build the cities, and tell the
people to come and be pioneers for
soothI within arms reach of all the
comforts Of civilization. The frontiers
man may pillow prairie or scalp Indians
ad l6itum during the day, and at night
20 to town-we humbly beg pardon
to the "city" and attend the thcater.
II is unquestionable civilization but 1t
knocks an the old fashioned romance
out Of backwoods life, and replaces 1t
with q sort Of 2:4o existence which
would make the staid head Of ones