The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-07-06
CHEYENNE As AN UPLIFTING
POINT

from here To the Black Hills, and rs
to the facilities for QUILTING when
here, we propose I 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 june
ton OF the Union Pacific and Kansas
Pacific railroads, and about seventeen
miles east OF the Black Hills range,
ON q high plateau of land, the eleva-
tion Of which is about 6 ,UOD feet above
the sea level. A small stream, called
Crow Creek, flows down from this
range of Hills aud through the west
ern and southwestern part Of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot (sotne-
times called Camp Carlin) a military
supply post, where there are "A num-
Der of warehouses and store houses
for the safe keeping of military and
Indian stores, is two miles distant,
on Crow Creek, and has IA branch
railroad leading from it To the Union
Pacific. At this depot are a govern
ment wagon shop, bl Icksmith shop
and other shops, whore u large num-
e of tradeSn,en fiud employment
in the government service. A mile
still further up Crow Creek is Fort
INhTTtAlN u hAANGh GNNllllIlAlA HllilAtTN
garrison, commanded by Gen. }. j.
Reynolds. AT present there are but
nine companies stationed there.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is a rolling prairie, well
adapted to the raising of cattle aud
sheep, and covered with herds and
fOcks 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.
Cheyenne has about 1900 inhabi-
tants. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church edifices, as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McC7oldrick,
pastor ; Episcopal. Rev. +. w. Hill
lard, resilient clergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. b. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. f.
Warren, resident minister; Congre-
g%ational, no resident minister st
present There is II good public
school, with nm average attendance
of two hundred scholars, resided
over by N. l.. Stark, as principal,
aAANA AZ IN . Alt
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is a cunmUdiuus,
comfortable two story hrick ediice,
n was erected i'll 1871, at a cost of
$l2,OOO. There is also a private
school kept toy "a Miss Ellis, who has
1t number of small scholars IN attend
ance-prubably twenty-five
As all who intend going to the
Black Hills need firearms and ann
munition, for their protection
and to supply the comUuissary de-
pHrtmpnt, we are often asked whether
these goods can be obtained here.
We refer them to the Wyoming
Armory aud Pioneer Gun Store of
Freund Bros, on Eddy Street, who
keep a large assortment of guns, piss
tolls and ammuuitions of all kinds.
They are first-class gunsIniths, aud
repair firearms in the hest and most
workmanlike manner.
There are in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin stores
Henry HOusnIan and +. Schweickert
where all of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houSes-I.
G. WhippIe, Pease & Taylor, L Ma
gle-where everything in the grocery,
RAON oAcA iAN II III oS plO-
cured. Besides these thers are a
number of retail grocery establish
ments-Leiby & Co., Underwood &
McGregOr, at all of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can be
had. Fruit and Produce, ). H. Wood.
or bakery and confectionery es-
adjustments there are the follow
ing: HIsH. Ellis, Underwood & Nc
Gregor, and E. w. keplinger,
where everything usually kept in a
baking and confectionery establish
ment may be procured. Of drug
stores there are two-Addoms &
Glover and Hurlbut Bros.-and there
will be no difficulty in procuring at
these places anything usually kept at
a first class drug establishment.
There are three large dry goods es-
Observation-Disclosures & Meyers, Geo.
D. FogleSong & 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. There are three large
''reauy made clothing' houses--B.
Hellman, Marks & Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry extern
sive stocks, and wholesale as well as
retail. B. Hellman 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.. Mnrrin, Gee. G. 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
car; furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and q. E. Thompson, can "outfit"