The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-09-22

enough of them to move their crops"
Here at Evanston the Utah mining
interests promise to furnish unlimited
supplies OF ~''rag-money" for some time
to come, the Evanston Charcoal Com
pany having just received q contract
for furnishing $4,000 bushels OF the
crop" per Month, for eight months,
at eighteen cents per bushel. This
will create flush times at this point,
and will reimburse Messrs North,
Quinn, Pease, McGlinchey. and a few
others for money expended in estab-
fishing charcoal pits near this city;
the enterprise and public spirit mani
tested by tine gentlemen composing
the above company will now be duly
rewarded.
The wonderful of our
young Territory are daily becoming
more apparent. We saw a few days
age. near Carter Station, u series OF
coal veins 1894 feet in thickness, a
mountain OF coal, so TO speak one
vein Of coal packed on the top Of an
mother, outcropping and being plainly
in sight for a mile. This immense de-
posit is claimed by Messrs Carter &
Bevens, OF Carter station, who have
associated themselves with a company
Of Utah capitalist, to develop the mine
and to furnish coke for the Utah
smelling works.
Another, but smaller, vein Of coal,
OF superior quality, and which pro-
duces the best of coke. has also been
discovered near Smiths Fork, about
eighteen miles north of Evanston.
The proprietors of tine mine propose to
build a number of ovens for burning
coke. They have tested the quality of
their coal and although the coke they
produced was burned in open air, it
was pronounced equal to the best of
eastern coke, by experts, at several OF
the smelling works in Utah. In push
ing this enterprise the Smith Broth
ers, the principal owners of this mine,
will add greatly to the many
OF Evanston and vicinity.
At Rock Springs, the other great
coal producing point in this Territory,
work is being prosecuted with great
diligence. The mines are being
worked to their utmost capacity, and
nearly a hundred cars OF coal are
brought TO the surface and shipped
daily. Many permanent improve
ments are also going forward in this
place. The Rock Springs Live Stock
company are constructing IA fine stone
building, which, we understand, has
been rented to L. S. Whittier, of Ev-
anston, who will establish u branch
here. Mr.. w. j. Ward, the popular
host Of the Railroad House, is making
improvements on his property. He will
soon have one of the cosiest little
hotels, and the finest billiard rooms on
the line OF the Union Pacific. Mr..
Harris, of the American House, has
constructed during the last year n two
story frame hotel building, with base
ment, which latter is used as Il billiard
parlor. Mr.. Harris is extensively pat
roniZed by the travelling public, and
being u genial, accommodating land
lore, is gaining the good will OF all Of
his patrons.
Green Biver City, the county seat of
Sweetwater County, has undergone
some changes during the last twelve
months. M. s. J. Field has sold out
his eating house to n new conner from
Salt Lake City, u Mr.. Kitchen, and
has returned to his old stand south of
the Railroad depot, where he keeps
all kinds, and where the postotlice is
also located. Mr.. Field is the post
master and the leading merchant in
this town he is also largely engaged
in farming and s~tockraising. He has
succeeded in raising this year Il fine
CROP of cereals and vegetables, and we
have actually assisted in digging from
the Green River soil, which nc one
would suppose could produce anything
but sage brush, the finest and largest
potatoes, beets, turnips and parsnlps,
we have ever seen produced i'll any
country. We also had an opportunity
to test the quality of the vegetables
an invitation to dinner at Mr.. Rath-
buns, who has recently opened a ho-
tel here, having been extended to us
and accepted, we were favored by the
hostess, Mrs. Rathbun, with the very
vegetables we had assisted in digging
from the soil in the morning. A more
palatable meal, or finer meats and veg
etables, we have never been favored
with in u travels. Mrs. Rathbun
will undoubtedly monopolize the pat
ronage of all who are either Temporal
rily or permanently located in Green