The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-24
For THx DEMOCRAT.
AN OVERLAND TRIP TO OREGON
DALLEs CITY, OREGON,
May 9th, 1869.

al cheyenne w. l. olo niles west
Omaha, at 6:l5, Wednesday, (Apri
i4th) This was for a long time the ter
minus Of the road and had at one tim
even worse notority than Jules burgI
had. When we got into Cheyenne
sever, snow storm was raging, snow t.
the depth of several inches was already
on the ground with good prospect O.
several inches more, and blowing, Ora
cious, dom talk to me about wind hur
rcanes, and tornadoes. You'd think
every minute the cars themseIve,
would be blown off the track Burcl
and | were assured, with the almost
gravity by one of the brakemen that
the week before, 3 saloons, 2 hotels
and one hurdy gurdy house had been
blown up and carried away founda tons
and all 10 point just this side Of
Hillsdale, AZ miles distant. by one 81
these tornadoes. l leave this for the
readers of the DEMOCRAT to believe or
not. The wind whistled around the
houses and street corners in such a
manner, you could ha dl hear per-
son speak l was informed by men
living here, that they had this kind OF
weather most Of the time. Owing to
the high altitude (7,040 ft. above the
sea- Cheyenne is quite business
place, and it being the nearest place to
Denver. 100 miles south, all goods are
re-shipped here for that place giving
employment to large number of men
Several lines of stages diverge from
here to Denver, a nd before two years
it is confdentially expected by people
here that Denver and Cheyenne will
be connected by rail. l understand
that the survey has already been made
and the route found to be entirely
practicable. Two newspapers are pub
lished here-Cheyenne Advertiser
and the Cheyenne News. Oae is a
daily the other weekly paper. The
also have regular city council, inclu-
ding policemen, aud also goodly mum
Der of vigilance committees. l had
the pleasure Of seeing one of the COM
mlttees' notices stuck up on the u. p
K. Depot. 1t was made in the inter
est, as the notice said of one shooting
Jim" terrible despa RADIO, who mad
infested the country of late, warning
the aforesaid "Shooting Jim" that if
he did not make his presence invisible
and leave the territory within three
days they would launch the aforesaid
Shooting Jim" to pine boush and
also into the next world, together with
a goodly number of skeleton heads.
cross bones. aud the presidents name
signed all in red ink Taking supper
here we left at 6:45. The country be-
comes more desolate as You leave Chey-
enne, nothing but rocks and snow
The cuts through the rocks were only
blasted wide enough 10 admit the cars.
and tina makes it very bad when there
is any snow. in getting the snow out.
They have to run their snow plows in,
get on load, back out, dump it off and
then go through. the same pre- cess again,
whereas, If the cuts were wider, the
snow could be pushed aside. Night
closed in on us at Buford, Is miles west
OF Cheyenne. We passed Laramie al
lO:4U. This Was also a great place fo:
cut-throats, gamblers. aud horse thieves
while the railroad terminus was there
which was some two months. Passed
|
Sherman at l:30 a. m. Thur sday, April
10Th, This is the highest point on the
Union Pacific road, aud is said to BE-
the highest on any Rail Road in the
United States, or ia the world. / be.
lieve there will be one point on the
Mont Gents Railway in Europe, which
when the road is completed, will be
some higher. Sherman is S,424 feet
above the level of the sea, being 3S2 fl;
higher than the summit on the Contra
Pacific over the the Sierra Nevada
Mountains. From Sherman the road
is down grade. We pass Saunders at
300 H.. Old Fort Saunders is III
m,les south of here, and Cooper's Lake
at 400 a. IN. Pass Medicine Bow
Greek at 80 a. III. named in honor of
the great Cheyenne Chief Medicine
Bow The scenery here is very beau
tiful. To the south are the Medicine
Bow bluffs and to the north are the snow
capped peaks of the Black Hills. Pass
Carbon at 9. Two miles south OF here
are the coal mines of the Company
which spoke of in another part Of