The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-07
CHEYENNE as AN OUTFITTING
POINT

from here to the Black Hills, and as
TO the facilities for QUILTING when
here, we propose [ answer all these
correspondents throughthe LEADER
The distances from here tie nils
and to the various points IN the
route have already been published
Cheyenne is situated at the juno
ton OF the Union Pocih' n Kansas
Pacific railroads, and about seventeen
miles east of the Black His range,
en- a high plateau of hand, the e!ev,J-
tion of which is about G,dDOteeI above
the sea level. y small stream, called
Crow Creek, flows down from this
n of His and through the west
ern and southwestern part of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot tsone-
times called Camp Carlin) II military
supply post, where there are IA num-
Der Of warehouses and store houses
for the safe keeping Of military and
Indian stores, is two miles distant,
On Crow Creek, and has IA branch
railroad leading from il 70 the Union
Pacific. At this depot are "A govern
ment wagon shop, bl tcksmith shop
and other shops, where a large mum
ter Of tradesmen find employment
in the government service. y 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.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is IA rolling prairie, well
adapted to the raising of cattle aud
sheep, and covered with herds and
flOcks 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 c~itizens 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 edifices, a. fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGoldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. +. w. Hill
lizard, resident clergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. b. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. W. F..
Warren, resident miuisler; Cougre-
Satiunal, no resident minister at
present.. There is one good public
school, with an average attendance
1.-Two hundred scholars, resided
over by n. Il. Stark, as principal,
and Misses Tenuey, McGeehou and
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is Il commudious,
comfortable two story brick ediiice.
and was erected in 1911, at II cost of
Sl2,O0O. There is also a private
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
81 number of small scholars IN attend
ance-probahIy twenty-five.
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Hardware, stove and tin Stures-
Henry Housman and f. Schweickert
where all manner of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery hOuSeS-I.
q. Whipple, Pease & Taylor, L Ma
gle where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can be pro-
cured. Besides these there are q
number of retail grocery establish
ments-Leiby q Co, Underwood &
McGregor, at all of which good
stocks Of fresh groceries "a be
had. Fruit aud Produce. s. III. Wood.
OF bakery and confectionery es-
Establishments there are the follow
ing: III. II. Ellis, Underwood & Nc
Oregon, and 4. w. Keplinger,
where everything usually kept in a
baking and confectionery esta blish-
ment may be procured. OF drug
stores there are twO-Addoms &
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 es-
Observation-Disclosures & Meyers, Geo.
ID. 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" hbuseS-B.
Hellman, Marks & Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry extern
sive stocks, and wholesale as well as
retail. b. Hellman has in connection
with his clothing emporium, a first
class Merchant Tailoring establish
ment. or wholesale liquor and cigar
houses there are thrPe-T. A. Kent,
l.. Murrin, Geo. Ct. Maston,-at each
of which there is a good stock to.
purchase from. In the furniture and
erockery line the large and extensive
establishment of Converse & Warren
a furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and G. q. Thompson, can "outfit"
all who call upon them, with boots
andshoes. In jewclry establishments
Cheyenne boasts two-JnsIin & Park
and David Miller. The former has a
reputation throughout the United
States and Europe for excellence
of workmanship, anil the place may
well be proud of it.
There are a number of good hotels
in the place, the principal among
which are Dyers Hotel, American
House, Planters House, and Railroad
HOTELS There are also several res
taurants in the place. where meals