The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-14
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10 the facilities Tor Quitting when
here, we propose I answer all these
correspondence through LEADER. .
IA distances from here to me mis-
and to u various points IN the .
route have already been published. T
Cheyenne l. situated at the juno
lion I'll the Union EuClti" and Kansas
Pacific TaIIru.uIs, ami about eEruteen ,
miles Cilst Ui the Black HIil- range,
on a high plhtuuu uI land, the eIeva-
ton UI which l. about 5000 feel above
the sea- level. \ small stream called
Crow Creek, flows town from this
range of Hlil7 and through the west
eTn and southwestern part of the
town site. Cheyenne Dcp8t (SUne !
tines caHed Camp CarIin) d military
supply lnt-t, WAprC there are Il mum
Der ui warehouses aud store HOUSES
fnT The sale keeping OF military and
Indian smrCs, IS TWO miles distant,
ON Grow Creek, and has "a branch
1 railroad leading from il 10 the Union
Pacific. Al rms depot are a govern
ment wagon -nup, bi tCssuIilh shop
and other shops, whrre a large mum
Der of trudU-uren find employment
in the government service. A mig
still urUher up Crow Creek j. Fort
Russell, u fifteen company military
garrison, commanded by Gen. }. }.
II ynoids. at present there are bat
I nine companies stationed there.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is II rolling prairie, well
auupted to the raising OF cattle aud
/ sheep, and covered with herds and
7 fiucks of the same. Eighteen miles
away TO the west, the MetcaIf Min
ing District begins, where good cop
] MOI. gNnn silver nFnz sarg found IN
abundance. This district is now
being developed by citizens of Chey-
enne, and viii, 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 editiceS. as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGoldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. L. w. Hill
Hard, resident cIergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. b Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. Il.
Warren, resident minister; CUngre-
gatiOnal, no resident minister at
present. There is one good public
school, with an average attendance
of two hundred scholars, resided
over by n. +. Stark, AS principal,
and Misses Tenney, McGeehon and
Bryant rs assistant teachers. The
school building in n commodiOus,
comfortable two story brick editice,
and was erected in 1871, at n cost of
$4,000. There is also a private
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
II number of small scholars in attend
ance-probably twenty-five.
There are in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin stores
Henry HOusnIan and +. Schweickert
where all manner of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery huuSCs-l.
G.. WhIpp!e, Hease IL Taylor, l. Mi
gle -Wh"Te everything in h grocery,
provision and grain trade can be pro-
cured. Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery establish
mrnts-Leihy d Co., Underwood 4
MCGregUr, =. II. Wood, at all of which
good stocks Of fresh groceries ran he
hal. OF bakery ana confectionery
establishments there are The follow
ing: IL. IL. Ellis, U-nder wood u Me
Gregor, and l.. W. Kcpliugcr,
where everything usually kept IN a
baking and confectionery establish
mCnt may be procured. or drug
stores there are tWO-A 5dOms 4
GlDver and Hurlhut BrOS.-Ind there
will be no difficulty in procuring ut
these places anything usually kept at
n Sfirst class drug establishment.
There are three large dry goods es-
tablishments-Al Marks u Meyers, Geo.
ID. FoglesOug x CO., /. Herman u
CO.,-each of whom keeps an eX-
tensive and varied assortment OF all
articles usually Kept III first class dry
goous stores: 1neEe are ihiee IarGe
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