The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-01
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TO the facilities for Quitting when
here, we PTuYDSe I answer all these
correspondents through The LEADER.
h distances rom here to The hints
and 10 the various points IN the
route have already been published.
Cheyenne j. situated at the June
tiun al the Umiun Pacific and Kansas
Pacific railroads, and about seventeen
nIiIe= east OF the Black Hills range,
on Il high plateau Of land, the eIeva-
lion of which Is about q 5000 feet above
the sea level. y 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 Drput (sOTne-
times called Camp CaTlin) a military
supply past, where there are a mum
Der nj warehouses aud store HOUSES
for The safe keeping Of military and
Indian stores, is two miles distant.
on Crow Creek, and has a branch
! railrOud leading from il To the Union
PacIic. At this depot are a govern
mCnt wagon shop, bl Icksmith shop
and other shops, where IL large mum
Der of tradesmen find employment
in The government service. a mile
still further up Crow Creek is Fort
| Russell, Il fifteen company military
] XII sun NOtilAlldtAlCNl bN tUGl. y. d.
Reynolds. AT present there are but
! nine companies stationed there.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is a rolling prairie, well
auapted to the raising of cattle and
sheep, and covered with herds and
ilOcks of the anne. Eighteen miles
away to the west, the MietcaIf 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 inhabi-
tants. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church editiccs, ~ fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGoldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. +. w. Hi
lard, resident cicrgymen PreShy-
terrain, Rev. w. b. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. +.
Warren, resident minister; CUugro-
g]atiOnal, nO resident minister At
present.. There is one good public
school, with an average attendance
of two hundred scholars, resided
over by n. l.. Stark, as principal,
and Misses TCnney, MCGCehun and
= aAAAA 80 = ANaANNANAos L .
school building is n c~ommudious,
comfortable two story brick editicp,
and was erected in 1871, at a cost Of
| $4,000. There is also a pri vate
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
1t number of small scholars in attend
ance-prObably Twenty-Five.
There are in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin stureS-
Henry Housman and +. Schweickert
where nil an of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houSes-I.
T.. Whipple, PcaSe & Taylor, L Ma
gle -whrre everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can be pro-
cured. Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery establish
mruts-Leiby IL Co., Underwood &
McGregOr, ). II. Wood, at all Of which
good sturks of fresh groceries Can be
had. OF bakery aul confectionery
establishments thcT" ure the follow
ing: ii. II. Ellis, Underwood ~ Nc
Gregor, and l.. ". kcplincrr,
where everything usually krpt IN "A
baking and confectionery establish
mpnt may be procured. OF drug
stores there are two-AddnmS &
Glover and Hurlhut 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 cs-
tahlishmentS-Marks Il Meyers, Geo.
=. f"EIt'ohS q o. l. herman d
Co.,-each OF Wh9hl keeps an eN7
tehslNe ana varied assortment OF an
articles usually Kept III hrst Grass ury
goous STORES. mere are three large
Ireauy n'aqe clotllhgr Ilnuse5Ib
iiei,ii'aii MARKS " Meyers Itler
2inl'n-aiI Oh thcIn carry eAIeh-
sly 9'oTh9i aliu WnIie9a,e "s wei as
ir!nil' % iitI,iilail tion III oa''l'S..n.