The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-11-19
CHEYENNE As AN oUrFTTTING
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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 [ answer all these
correspondents through the LEADER.
The distances from here to the hills
and to the various points IN the
route have already been published.
Cheyenne is situated at the juno
ton OF 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-
ton of which Is about 6 900 feet above
the sea level. A small stream, called
Crow Creek, Hows down from this
range of Hills and through the west
ern and southwestern part of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot lsnme-
times called Camp Curliu) a military
supply Pjst, where there are a mum
Der of warehouses aud 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 il To the Union
Pacific. At this depot are a govern
ment wagon shop, bl tcksuiih shop
and other shops, where "A large mum
Der of tradeSmen find employment
in, the government service. "A mile
still further up Crow Greek is Fort
Russell, "A fifteen company military
garrison. cOmmanded by Gen. j. j..
ReyHolds. AT present there are but
nine companies stationed there.
There are in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin rstpres-
Henry HOusman and f. Schweickert
where all n of mining tOpls
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houses-T.
G. Whipple, Pcrse d Taylor, + Ma
gle where everything i'm the grocery,
provision and grain trade can he pro-
currd.f Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery estabfish-
mtnts-Eeiby q Co., Underwood &
McGregor, at all of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can be
had. Frat and Produce, !. IL. Wood.
OF bakery and confectionery es-
tablilhment5 there are the follow
ing: H. Fl. EtIis. Underwood & Me
Gregor, and +. w. Keplinger,
where everything usually kepLin Il
baking and confectionery establish
ment may be procured. OF drug
stores there are twO-Addnms q
INV NliNi Altll ~ blV1. -'illA AlltIt
will be no difficulty i'm procuring at
these places anything usually kept at
n first clusSJ drug establishment.
There are three large dry goods es-
tabliShmentS-Marks g. Meyers, Geo.
ID. Fuglesung d Co, /. Herman Il
GO.,-each of whom keeps an eX-
tensivs and varied assortment Of all
articles usually kept in first class dry
goods stores There are three large
ready made cluthing" huuseS--B.
Hcllman. Marks q Meyers, Peter
Smith-ail Of them carry eXten
sive stocks, and wholesale ms Wen us
retail. b. HellmHn has in connection
With his clothing emporium, a first
class Merchant Tailoring Cslnblish-
ment. OF Wholesale liquor and cigar
houses there are three-T. a. Kent,
l.. Murrin, Geo. G.. Maston,--at each
of which there is a good stock 10
purchase from. In the furniture and
cr0ckery line the large and extensive
establishment of Converse e Warren
can furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and q. e. Thompson, can ''nutfit"
all who call upon them, with boots
andshoes. In jewclry establishments
Cheyenne boasts two-Jpslm & Park
and David Miller. The former has a
reputation throughout the United
States and Europe for excellence
of workmanship, AMI the place may
wellSbe 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
A0at-e ~ 70 fhN 1880
awayyto 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.
Cheyenne has about 5000 inhahi-
tants. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church edifiees, as fol-
lowsl, Catholic, Father McGoIdrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. F. w. Hill
liard.s resilient .clergymen; Presbv-
teriahs Rev. w. B. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. F.
Warren, resident minister; Congre-
gational,, no resident minister Pt
present. There is me good public
school, with an average attendance
of two hundred scholars, presided
over by N. f. Stark, as principal.
and Misses Tenney, McGeehon and
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is a commodious,
comfortable two story brick edifce.
\ was erected in 1871, at a cost of
SlZ,OGO,. There is also a private
school Kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
d number of small scholars in attend