The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-27
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correspondents through thu LEADER.
Inc DISTANCES from here 10 The hills
and 10 ILg various points IN the
route have already bCeu published.
CEcyCh..v - situated at the juuc-
tiUu Oi jhC Union PICifir and Kansas
Pacific aIiTOudS, and about seventeen
miles East Oi the Black Hills range,
on ahigh Plateau Of land, the eleVu-
o OF which l. about u, CIU iuni above
the sea Level. y sinai! Stream, called
Crow Greek, flows down from this
range of lIilIs and through the west
err and Southwestern part Of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot some
tIutCSCu!IUd Camp CairIinI "A military
supply p"~l, where there arc a mum
Der a.: warehouses and store houses
IUT line SAFE keeping OF military and
Indian stores, Is two miles distant.
on Crow Greek, and has IA branch
railroad leading from it to the Union
Pacific. At this depot are a govern
ment wagon shop, blacksmith shop
n ether shops, where Il large mum
Der Of tradesmCn tud employment
in tile gOyernment service. \ mile
still further up Grow Creek is Fort
Russell, Il fifteen company military
garrison, commanded by Gen. }. J.
- ll'l'A1s NJ IlN-tllN tllElt are Dilt
nine companies stationed there.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is "A rolling prairie, well
adapted to the raising OF cattle and
sheep, and covered with herds and
tiOcks of the same. Eighteen miles
away to the west, the MrtCalf Min
ing District begins, where good cop
per and silver ores are found IN
abundance. This district Is now
being developed By citizens Of Chey-
enne, and Will, no doubt, prove of
great value.
Cheyenne has about 5000 inhabi-
tauts. This number does nOt include
transient persUns. 1t has five good,
substantial church edihcos, as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGuldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. +. w. Hill
lard, resident clergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. Il. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. +.
Warren, resident minister; Congre-
gutiOnal, no resident minister It
present. There is one good public
school, with an average attendance
of two hundred scholars, presided
over by n. +. Stark, as principal,
and Misses TGnney, McGeehon and
Bryant rs assistant teachers. The
school building is a cOmmodiOus,
comfortable two story brick edifice,
and was erected in 1871, at n cost of
Sl2, 600. There is also a private
school kept by n Miss Ellis, who has
Il number Of small scholars III attend
unexpectedly twenty-five.
There are in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin stores
Henry Housnlan and +. Schweickert
-NyhA all mnnnar pf ntininr tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery hOuSes-I.
G. Whipple, PcGse x Taylor, f Ma
! gle-whcre everything iuthe grocery,
provision and grain trade can he pro-
Curvd. Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery establish
mruts-Beiby d Co., Underwood d
McGirCgOT, mt all Of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can be
had. Fruit and PrUtlu~p, =. IL. Wood.
OF bakery ana "HulvciIGHury CS-
Establishments there are the fniluw-
ing: II. II. Ellis, Underwood y Ne
Greg0r, and +. W. NrpLu%rr,
where everything usually kcpJ IN 4
baking and C"U~irCIIuuCry establish
mrut may be procured. OF drug
stores there are tWO-Addous Il
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