The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-11-08
CHEyEnSE As AN OUrFIrrING
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CHEEEnNE As AN OUTFIrrING
.ggAraa PoINT'
Being daily in receipt of letters
making inquiry as 10 the distance
from here 10 the Black Hills, and AS
TO the facilities for QUILTING when
here, we propose [ answer all these
correspondents through the LEADER.
The distances from here To the hills
and to the various points on the
route have already been published.
Cheyenne is situated AT the juno
ton ofthe Union Pacific and Kansas
Pacific railroads, and about seventeen
miles east of the Black Hills range,
on a high plateau of land, the eleva-
ton of which is about 6,0UD 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 Depot (snme-
times called CaInp,Carliul IA military
supply Ppsi,where there are "A mum
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 ii to the Union
Pacific. AT this depot are a govern.
ment wagon shop, bl tcksmiih shop
and other shops, where "A large mum
Der of tradesmen find employment
in the government service. y mile
still further up Crow Creek is Fort
Russell, u 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 +. Schweickert
where all manner of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houSes-T.
&. Whipple, Pease d Taylor, l. Ma
gle -where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can be pro-
cured. Besides these ther5 are Il
number of retail grocery establish
mrnts-Leiby x Co, Underwood &
McGregor, at all Of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can be
had. Fruit and Produce. 5. II. Wood.
OF bakery and Confectionery es-
Establishments there are the follow
ing: IL. IL. Ellis, Underwood & Me
Gregnr, and +. w. kepliuger,
where everything usually Kept IN Il
baking and confectionery establish
ment may be procured. OF drug
stores there are two-Addoms IL
Glover and Hurlhut BrOs.-and there
will be no difficulty in procuring at
these places anything usually kept ut
Il first class drug establishment.
There are three large dry goods ps-
Observation-Disclosures Il Meyers, Geo.
d.. FOglesUng & Co, |. Herman d
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" hDuseS--B.
Hellman, Marks & Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry extern
sive stocks, and wholesale as well as
retail. b. Hellmau has in connection
with his clothing emporium, n first
class Merchant Tailoring establish
ment OF wholesale liquor and cigar
houses there are three-T. y. Kent,
Il, Murrin, Geo. G.. 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 & Warren
ri furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot md
shoe trade the stores Of Stephen Bon
and CT, Thompson, can 'nutfitn
all who call upon them, with boots
and shoes. In jewCiry establishments
Cheyenne boasts twO-JoSlm & Park
and David Miller. The former has Il
reputation throughout the United
States and Europe for excellence
of workmanship, AMI 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
iockS Of the m Eighteen miles
away, to the west, the MetcaIf Min
ing District begins, where good cop
per and silver ores are found in
abundance. This district is now
being developed by citizens of Chev-
enne, and will, no doubt, prove of
great value.
Cheyenne has about 1900 inIfabi-
tantS. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church edifices. as fol-
lows Catholic, Father McGnldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. +. w. Hill
lard, resident clergymen; Preshv-
terrain, Rev. w. B. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. F..
Warren, resident minister; Congre.
g%ational, no resident minister at
present. There is n good public
school, with an average attendance
of two hundred scholars, resided
over by N. f. Stark, as principal.
and Misses Tenney, McGeehon and
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is a cpmmodious.
comfortable two story brick edificp.
n was erected in 1871, at a cost of
$1,000. There is also a private
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
Il number of small scholars in attend