The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-07-26
COMMERCIAL JOB PRINTING
CHRxENNE As AN oUTFITTING
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 QUILTING when
here, we propose answer all these
correspondents through the LEADER.
The distances from here to the hills
and to the various points On the
route have already been published.
Cheyenne is situated at the juno
ton OF the Union Pacifir 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 feel above
the sea level. a small stream, called
Grow Creek, flows down from this
range of Hills and through the west
ern and southwestern part Of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot (snme-
times called Camp Carlin) a military
supply pnst, where there are a mum
Der of warehouses and store houses
for the safe keeping of military and
Indian stores, is two miles distant,
on Crow Greek, and has a branch
railroad leading from it to the Union
Pacific. AT this depot are "A govern
ment wagon shop, bl tcksmiih shop
and other shops, wherea large NUM-
Der of tradesmen find employment
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still further up Crow Creek is Fort
Russell, a 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 stores
Henry Housman and f. Schweickert
where all manner of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houses-I.
G. Whipple, Pease & Taylor, E Ma
gle-where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can he pro-
cured. Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery establish
ments-Leiby q Co., Underwood IL
McGregor, at all of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can tp
had Fruit and Produce, =. II. Wood.
OF bakery aud confectionery IS
Establishments there are the follow
ing: II. H. Ellis, Underwood & No
Gregor, and f. w. Keplinger,
where everything usually kept in ii
baking and confectionery establish
ment may be procured. OF drug
stores there are two-Addoms &
Glover and HurlbuGBros.-and there
will he N difficulty in procuring at
hLANFN az III AAAAil6 7AANi NCIAb at
a first class drug establishment.
There are three large drysgood~ es-
Observation-Disclosures g. Meyers, Geo.
ID. Fogiesong & Co, l.. Herman &
Co.,&each of whom keeps an eX-
tensive and varied assortment of all
articles usually kept in first class dry
goods stores. Tnprp are three large
''ready made rloIhipg" hpuses-B.
Hellinan, Marks & Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry exten-
sivesstocks, and wholesale as well AS
retail. b. Heliman has in connection
with his clothing emporium, a first
class Merchant Tailoring establish
ment. OF wholesale liquor and cigar
houses there are three-T. a. Kent,
l.. Murrin, Geo. CT. 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
can furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and G.. E. Thompson, can "outfit'
all who call upon them, with boots
and shoes. In jewelry establishments
Cheyenne boasts twO-JoSlm & Park
and David Miller. The former has a
reputation throughout the United
States and Europe for excellence
of workmanship, an | the place may
we'll be proud of it.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is a rolling prairie, well
adapted to the raising of cattle aud
sheep, and covered with herds and
fiocks of the same. 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, no doubt, prove of
great value.
5 Cheyenne has about 1900 inhahi-
tants. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church ediices, as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGoIdrick,
pastor /; Episcopal, Rev. F. w. Hill
lard, resident clergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. B. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. f.
Warren, resident ministers; 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. e. Stark, as principal,
and Misses Tenney, McGeehon and
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is a commodious,
comfortable two story brick edifice.
and was erected in 1871, at a cost of
$4,000. There is also a private
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
Number of small scholars in attend
unexpectedly twenty-five.
AS all who intend going to the
Black Hills need firearms and am
munition, for their own protection
and to supply the commissary de-
partment, we are often ask ed .whether