, 1869-03-11

and youux men en- room fnd mess together
ior - 70 etn per week hotel board
ifss ds,so e !. os.sa E. d' . s 39' hsaP: ,ns
ard 81 hours from om.ha to Cheyenne.
i,sy Iaborers CEN ret from g to ~ per day.
Carpenters, piasteEers, raasJnB, Painters and
all kinds Of mechanics are In great demaud,
and c&n gei from - to s16 per day, according
are very scarce, sad good houseke"pef can
gts $50 month. while q handy servant girl
can get IRON 80 to so per month. and Ii she
| is pretty and yirtubus, husband whenever
she wants one. All kinds Of strumpetry
psye 80 enormon'ly that il Is quite imposatble
| the bsd, hut il th.y will not couseat 10 BE-
| kept, men Will marry them. Many Of the
unprotected and vfrtuoas E1r17 who come 10
this country ultimately iod their way into
Geus Of prostitution and dance houses, 50
great are the Inducements to err ana so weak
the flesh.
Uf the business oi this new city the rea der
may form some Idea when we tell him that
duri1 r 1867 and 1868 $50 persons frequently
arrived daily. Eye q Co, forwarded during
the year 6,Cso, ,o00 pounds OF freight Me-
ge,th q Co. shipped in sIasls month
Bs1tou shipped az much uo:e, and Heiis.
Fargo d Co.. IN twelve mouths, c1rrled
7.oco. COO pounds, principally goods.
The population OF thus ueiT country 80
greatly exceeds the places to live 10 that a |
ousine:s man, or u1an ot family. e1niyrst- |
ipe here would do well TO 1eayc his goods |
ard tamlly in the States until he gets plac. |
fixed up IN the West.
ASS 'air sample OF how business men grow
up In this couttry, will cite the reader to
cne instance. dust below whe.e I set writ
ing is tine fuc banking bouse OF Rogers i |
at Cle5 enne. 1hese was no house for him
and he p'tthed tent and hung out Ills shin;le. |
1t night he locked q , his money aud yafua- |
bles 10 q safe acd slept IN the bank. After /
lttt!e tine he rented a corner grocery and |
moved bis bauk into It. At the end Of the
had erected, aud now he has Is fne bank as
is to be found any where ia the West, with /
t1oo 900 to 500 900 deposits on hand, Come
TO Cheyenne few Teara hence and
you, VII! probably and the young
MADE his forture and stepped aside 70 iet
some one else make money, as It ts now made
in the East, by patient toll and industry.
To be sure. The SUCCESSORS OF Rogers q Co.
will not h1yo to d. their business Ia tent,
that they Will not make money like the old
firm, md that what 1t TOOK Rogers only ten
yea1s 10 do It will take them twenty. thirty,
or perhaps 8 lifeline to accomplish. There
Is q sort Of .compeneatlnx Justice. In this
ont Of lie old bea,enr e rpsths, and tsse F!sks
and responsibilities, 80 do men seem to pros
Every day men IN the E.st are saying to
themselves: "oh, Il l haa ooiy kno@n
BEEN" The old sar1nef exclafns: Wuen
frat camc here could have bought all the
land liz the nefghboshood for two or three
dollars per acre, and II had only foreseen
that It wou1d be worth twenty to thtfty dol
lars per acre so soon. l mlshs hsEe been IN
rfCh a,
great city had but few stores in it,
nd ,Ss II t,.ds bad ehsh Should gone to &ts ass
have been worth nnlllion-' The owner of
4 little lard and few homes reflects that If
be hsd only known the city would grow so
rapid, he mleh: have Owned rows ot houses
and acres Of land In the heart Of the metrop.
oils. The young mcn listen to the stories OF
the old fosies and .igh and sag: "such gold
II We only had such chance to make our
fortunes! but the land Is all bought up, the
| city built, and We must ptod along with a
| pitIance for salary" Foolish young men,
! DO you NOT know that Jus: what has hap
| ptned to your fathers In The Western States
Eastern States. and will happen to you Il yoa
remain where you ares Cities IN the Great
| West, like the one you now live In, will grow
mp aud men make fortunes like the men you
cau name all around you. In the West are
fortunes for you II you only have the courase
md enterprise to win them. Yon
cannot contend with the great capital al
s1ount yen. You are orefsoadoxed by the
rich firms in which you can, It best, only be
] clerks tr small partners. Come West aud
establish such firms tor yourselves. Hundred.
OF them Hili crow up in the new country yet
unsettled. What has happened In the East
Is new happening, and viii continue to hap.
pen for years to come, in the West, The his
tory of wealth Il d enterprise has been re
pealing lsse,f for the past eighty years In Amer
icn. Mestwavd the course Of empire takes tta
way, and If young men IN the ovcrstocktd
way into 1t, and be sober, brave, Industrious
enterprlstu.:, ard patient enough to grow nj
With The c;,untry, thcy will come TO grea
fortune aud prosperity. AARON ABOUT