The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-09-24
CnEYEHNE As AN OUTFITTING
POINT!

CHEYEHNE As AN oUTFITTHNG
POINT!
Being daily in receipt Of letters
making inquiry aS To the distance
from here to the Black Hills, and as
to the facilities for Quitting when
here, we propose I answer all these
correspondents through the LEADER.
The distances from here to HE hills
and to the various points IN the
route have already been published.
Cheyenne is situated ut the june
ton II the Union Pacific and Kansas
Pacific railroads, and about seventeen
miles east of the Black Hills range,
on a high plateau of land, the eleva-
tion of which is about 5000 leel above
the sea level. a small stream, called
Crow Creek, flows down from this
range of Hills and through the west
ern and southwestern part of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot some
times called Camp CariinJ IL military
supply post, where there are II mum
Der of warehouses and store houses
for the safe Keeping of military and
Indian stores, is two miles distant,
on Crow Creek, and has II branch
railroad leading from il to the Union
Pacific. At this depot are Il govern
ment wagon shop, III lcksmilh shop
and other shops, where II large mum
Ter of tradeSmen find employment
in the government service. y mile
still further up Grow Creek Is Fort
Russell, IA fifteen company military
garrison, commanded by Gen. }. j..
Reynolds. At present there are but
nine companies stationed there.
There ARE in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin stures-
Henry HousmHn and f.. Schwpickcrt
where all of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery huuSes-I.
&. Whipplc, Pease * Taylor, + Ma
gle where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can Ice pro-
cured. Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery establish
mrnts-Leiby & Co., Underwood &
McGregOr, Rt all Of which good
stocks of fresh groceries eau tie
had. Fruit and Produce, =. H. Wood.
OF bakery md confectionery es-
Establishments there are the follow
ing: III. III. Ellis, Underwood & Me
Greg0r, and Il. w. kepliuger,
where everything usually kept in II
baking and confectionery establish
ment may lie procured. OF drug
stores there are two-Addons &
Glover aad Hurlhut Bros.-Hnd there
will be no difficulty in procuring at
these places anything usually kept at
n first class drug establishment.
There are three large dry goniS es-
Observation-Disclosures & Meyers, Geo.
ID. FogleSOng * Co, |. Herman K
CO.,-each of whom keeps an eX-
tensive aud varied assortment uf nil
articles usually kept in first class dry
goods stores. There are three large
ready made clothing huuseS--B.
EIellman. Marks & Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry extern
sive stocks, and wholesale us well rs
retail. b. Hellman has in connection
with his clothing emporium, n first
class Merchant Tailoring establish
ment. OF wholesale liquor and cigar
houses there are three-T. a. Kent,
l.. Murrin, Geo. q. Maston,-at each
of which there is a good stock to
purchase from. In the furniture and
crockery line the large and extensive
establishment of Converse & Warren
ear furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and Ct. L. Thompson, can ''outfit"
all who call upon them, with boots
andshoes. In jewclry establishments
Cheyenne boasts two-JoslIn & Park
and David Miller. The former has a
reputation throughout the United
States and Europe for excellence
of workmanship, and the place may
well be proud of it.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is a rolling prairie, well
adapted to the raising of cattle and
sheep, and covered with herds and
hocks of the m Eighteen miles
away to the west, the Metcalf 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, 40 doubt, prove of
great value.
Cheyenne has about 5000 inhabi-
tants. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church edifres. as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGoldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. F. w. Hill
lard, resident clergymen; Freshly
terrain, Rev. w. B. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. F.
Warren, resident minister; Congre-
gational, no resident minister ct
present. There is one good public
school, with an average attendance
of two hundred scholars, resided
over by N. f. Stark, rs principal,
and Misses Tenney, McGeehon and
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is a commodinus,
comfortable two story brick edifce.
and was erected in 1871, at a cost of
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