The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-10
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CHEYENNE AS AN oUrFTTTING
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Being daily in receipt of letters
making inquiry as to the distance
from here-tothe Black Hills, and as
TO the facilities for Quitting when
here, we propose t answer all these
correspondents through the LEADER.
The distances from here to the hills
and to the variuus points IN the
route have already been published.
Cheyenne is situated al tine juno
ton al the Union Pacif" and KaiI~aS
Pacific railroads, and aboutseveuteUn
miles east of the Black Hills range,
on a high plateau of land, the eleva-
ton of which is abuut6 600 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 tSOme-
times called Camp Carlin) a military
supply pnst, where there are Il mum
Der of warehouses and store houses
for the safe keeping of military and
Indian stores, Is Eve miles distant,
on Grow Creek, and has Il branch
railroad leading from it to the Union
Pacific. AT this depot are a govern
ment wagon shop, bi Icksmith shop
and other shops, where n large mum
her 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
- nyltarn oil nRanr,nr EF .R.fRfVtr fF.aIg
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houses-I.
G. Whipple, Pease & Taylor, T. Ma
gle where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can be pro-
cured. Besides these theirs are a
number of retail grocery establish
meuts-Leiby d Co., Underwood ~
McGregor, at all of which good
stocks Of fresh groceries can he
had. Fruit and Produce, ). IL. Wood.
OF bakery and confectionery es-
Establishments there are the follow
ing: Ii. H. Ellis, Underwood & Me
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.-nnd 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 g. Meyers, Geo.
d.. FogleSong & Co, l.. Herman s..
Co.,-each of whom keeps am ex-
tensive and varied assortment Of all
articles usually kept in first class dry
goods stores. There are three large
ready made clothing' hnuses--B.
Hellman, Marks q Meyer, Peter
Smith-all of them carry eXten-
sive stocks, and wholesale as well lis
retail. B. Helnian has in connection
with his clothing emporium, n first
class Merchant Tailoring establish
ment. OF wholesale liquor and cigar
houses there are three-T. a. Kent,
l.. MurTin, Geo. G.. Mastnn,Gat each
of which there is Il good stock to
purchase from. in the furniture and
crockery line the barge and extensive
establishment of Converse q Warren
can furnish all demands on these
branches of trades In the boot and
shoetrade the stores of Stephen Bon
and G.. L. Thompson, can ''uuifit"
all who call upon them, with boots
andshoes. In jewclry establishments
Cheyenne boasts two-JoSlm & Park
and David Miller. The former has a
reputation throughout the United
States apd Europe for excellence
of workmanship. AMI the PLACE may
well be proud ofit.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is a rolling prairie, well
adapted to the raising of cattle aud
sheep, and covered with herds and
fiocks of the same. Eighteen miles
away to the west, the Metcalf Min
inp District begins where puOl rom
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-
tant5. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has FIVE good,
substantial church edifices, as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGoldrick,
pastor Episcopal, Rev. f. w. Hill
lard, resilient clergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. B. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. F.
Warren, resident minister; Congre-
gational, no resident minister st
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 editice,
and was erected in 1871, at a cost of
$4,000. There is also a private
school kept .bya Miss Ellis, who has
u number of small scholars in attend
ance-probably twenty-five.
As all who intend going TO the