, 1869-03-11

Ch'ysnne, Wyoming TerxttorT-Iln
EFtWth-rorup2fIaou with Cn1eRgo-
The Chsyenue People-F4ss Womsn
0Hd sAsI ne0-h hatfo5d Com munls
c1SioBs East aud West How For.
tuaka ira Made-n1tknIa-Cpat OF
L1vlnE-Advaee 10 Young Men.
From Osr Ep.e!ai C1rreepondeat
cHsxAasx. y. T.. Fss. Is.
The traveller west frcm Omaha, at the tiYe
hundred and sixteenth mile stoue on the
Union Pacific Railroad. cones to q town, or
city, as 1t Is called, which, perhsps, OF all
The places on the plains, best illustrates the
growth of the West.
July 4, 1867, there vaa but ore house
where the city OF Che5euue nov stands, With
its seventeen streets and four thousand in
haoitants. Many of the residences are hand
some aud substantially built. II. atayes
canrafn everything that can be bought in
Chicago, and in their extent and magnid-
eence surprise ererT beholder, The goods
are high, Of course, but on an average do not
cost twenty per cent more than they can be
Cheyenne has eight attorneys Ut Law seyen
boot and shoe stores; f1re drug stores; four
principal dry eo,d stores; half.a.dozeu
places where ready y-msde clothing can De
bought aye wholesale groceries four h1rd-
ware and cutlery establishments four hotels:
lour restauran,s +; four stationery and notion
stores st1 wholesale liquor stores; four to-
.baceo stores; seven physicians :; two dentists
md seycnteeo other establishments where
mfIiresst tallo1<, BARRIERS, builders and manu-.
hctu1ers hold forth.
How all the houses were built, how Ill the
goods were got here aud how all the buyers
could hare been gathered in eighteen moaths
TO make up city OF louf Thousand people
five hundred miles ont on the plains, must
forever remain i matter Of wouder even
Tnree ml1es nom Cheyenne is Fort D. a.
Russell which adds 10 the city purchasing
population II over twelve nutdred souls.
The great machine shops OF the Union Pa
cltic Road is also being bult At Chyenuc, and,
unsn thousand ptaa to vi" III. '9a paDu.,Iss se
Of the city. Add to these the employees Of
| the QuarteImas1et's Department. 1t wo niles
| from Cheyenne, and tnetr farnilies-abont
eight hundred Bouis and We have q city
next summer Of eleven shou:aud people that
ha. ts: groxn 1p ia to years. Land that IN
twice that pr foot. Corner io1s that last
year conld BE bought for $25. noT are held
At s4G0. What think you o! that. specu-
lators Of Chicago? Do not for N ;neut
lmae!ne Sou aft lae 1astest TeoPlc IN tae
Chicago, ue all know, is a las. place; but IL
Jou will namt the particular article In
which you think yox have attained proeres.,
We 1ill engage to take it, he, she or they
down. Did you ever hare Mayor TINT got
1i&hts We have now. Haye Sou jolly City
Fathers? So hare We Have yon o like
front! So have We railro2d front. Have
you theatre: 90 hare We, and Chic 1yo
tr.upe playfng IN 1t. Have you q museum
Il don't bclieye sou have. We have large
one, vi b fat woman, snakes MONKEYS,
paIfs - have Te. H4rs ,ou III
women: So hare ws-lots Of them
Have you fass horscs: So have ne,
and stamps ready to hst on
them. HBve Jon an art1stoc1acy: So have
We. cod aud otheraise- In word, &c car
plaY higher, bior louder, drink more and
sland up longer thao your boosted chicago
II has taken 700 twenty &c ~ to make Cht
caEo what Is, while We have msde Cheyenne
it, equal in everything, but size, ia less Thar
Two years. How singularay il strikes sh'
looks up aud sees engraved Oh the front q
the Aufeuu, The city Of Cheyenne foundcd
1857" H. il drca n: No ! strange aud i'm
Fossible ~ 1t may seem, city can grow W
!. In our country III Two short years. No
. conrcnienccs and luxuries Of I metropolis
Nor q. e VIC lacking IL variety Of p-opie 4
we'll as produce. Miners, mnnutaincers
ranchnen, a1d merchants Of M.ntana. pa
| kota and Ariz-na crowd our streets. True
the people look little rougber than thos
1anehman fn his jeans, the hunter in bis buck
akin, the western merchant il bis butt, Is a
GOOD as the Wall street broker III his broad
cloth NJ diamonds. these hardy lrontlerstne
have hank aud houcaL maunsf attout then
.nat puts 10 shame The crafty tradcsmen O
, fhf EnSt The ntnnft,r3 1f rty11iyatfnn F1nc
speak With forkcd tongues tAeg vill no
tell you half eoison for uu .ooo. or Lisle threa
chntn for pure sl1k. Tha bull teams ma
look little provincial. bu: the Colorado
gold that Ia found on every mac's couute
makes I'D Tor that. Thu loads OF elk, deer
buffalo and bear meat N the markets ina,
eeem little odd, but tho Colorado cabbage
weighing huy pounds sets It all hight. III
mctal kettles In toe stores may shock tn
, | iashlonahle Eastern lady, bnt the bcsutifu
moss agates OF Wyoming, gold nuggets 0
!: Montana and Rccky Mo9ataln diamond
sparkling in the show windows mak.s IL Al
| right. lttakss Dutch oycus, Iron pots, pick.
thlngh as gold, agates, silrer aud DIAMOND
8 cut oi their native beds and bti & them I
: civilization.
E We have our rich men sire :dy, OF
, and merchant. priuces. There arc titee
i sao.vO. per month. We havs thr,
fonrishIpg bankers and several re
Z estate owners and brokers. Fine horse
r fnc carriages and fashlonably dressed woms
i are seen .very dsJ on the streets, and II
8 | two-5ear old city has its sriatocrAcY az
q fashionable society. Then there Il tho woms
! in scarlet, who tolls not, neither doth 81
+ spin, get solom3 IN 10 all his glory WAS nj
arrayed like her. Our fashion able Weste,
E natfcn tur1a up her nose aa high. looks
! 1erccly at the dsmi saosde and gathers b.
: garneots rs closely lest theY should brrs
. against ths naughty etrl, as any Es.t.E
3 mother could d.. The number OF zoilc
c toyes IN ous city, I confess, is alar1ltnel
e large, but every month they are growing l-s
( as married met more ont their families m
young meu rc,nrn East TO harry aud brin
, out the girls they LEFT behind th-m whe
/ they set out TO seek the4 fortunes In II
j, West.
:. Though little long, wish you wonl
4 quote for the Information Of Chicago me-
b | chants and Eastern readers, our market lis
e The commtl tlc;al reports are printed ever
E day In the daily papers, Of which We hn5
e thee, the Sir, L<ode- snd Aryus. These r.
= ports sbow tcle1able good chance to nv,
E even SEQ miles cut on the plains. I quot
c | from the markets OF the Sur
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q F,ou1, Sts.tt, = B>tk.... ...-...-.$5a3 q 80
/, | EIops, Lo:oya Q, p fsck..-.-...... $40 q 100
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