The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-14
CHEYENNE As AN OUrFITTING
POINT

Being daily in receipt of letters
making inquiry as to the distance
from here to the Black Hills, and as
to the facilities for OutfiUtIng when
here, we propose t, 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 l. situated al the juno
ton OF The UuiGu Pacific md Kansas
Pacific railroads, and abou seventeen
miles east Of the Black Hills range,
OF a high plateau of land, the eieva-
ton of which is about 5000 feet above
the sea level. A small strCam, called
Crow Creek, flows down from this
range of Hills and through the west
err ard southwestern part Of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot lsOme-
times called Camp Cariinl a military
supply post, where there are a mum
her OF warehouses and store houses
for the safe keeping of military and
Indian stores, is TWO miles distant,
on Crow Creek, and has "a branch
railroad leading from it to the Union
Pacific. At this depot are a govern
Inent wagon shop, blacksmith shop
and other shops, where a large mum
Der of tradesmen find employment
in the government service. a mile
still further up Crow Creek is Fort
Russell, a fifteen company military
garrison, commanded by Gen. }. J..
Reynolds. AT present there are but
nine companies stationed there.
There are in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin stores
Henry Housman and f. SChweickert
where all manner of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery hOuses-I.
q. Whippie, Pease & Taylor, e Ma
gle where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can be pro-
cured. Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery establish
mrnts-Leiby d Co., Underwood d
McGregOr, at all of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can be
had. Fruit and Produce. ). H. Wood.
OF bakery aud confectionery es-
Establishments there are the follow
ing: III. III. Ellis, Underwood & Nc
Gregor, and L. w. Keplinger,
where everything usually kept in a
baking and confectionery establish
ment may be procured. OF drug
stores there are two-Addoms q
Glover and HurIbut Bros.-and there
will be no difficulty in procuring at
these places anything usually kept at
n first class drug establishment.
There are three large dry goods es-
Observation-Disclosures d 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
ready made clothing" hOuses--B.
Hellman, Marks & Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry extern
Sive stocks, and wholesale as well as
retail. b. HelIman 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.. Murrin, Geo. CT. 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 q Warren
can furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and q. b. Thompson, a "Outtit'
all who call upon them, with boots
and shoes. In jewelry establishments
Cheyenne boasts ~two-JoSlIn & Park
and David Miller. The former has a
reputation throughout the United
States and Europe for excellence
of workmanship, and the place may
well be 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
hOcks 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 5000 inhabi-
tantS. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church edifces, as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGOldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. f. w. Hill
Hard, resident clergymen Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. b. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. F..
Warren, resident minister; COugre-
gational, no resident minister ct
present. There is one good public
school, with an average attendance
of two hundred scholars, presided
over by n. E. Stark, as principal,
and Misses Tenney, McGeehon and
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is a commodiOus,
comfortable two story brick edifice,
and was erected in 1871, at a cost of
SO 1000. There is also a private
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
a number of small scholars in attend
ance-probably twenty-five.
As all who intend going to the
Black Hills need firearms and am
munition, for their own protection
and to sunnlY the cnmmiSSarY de-