The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-05-29
COMMERCIAL JOB PRINTING
CHEYENNE As AN O~UTFIrTING
POINT!

10 lue IdClillleS lot OuIuLIllS wien
here, we propose t answer all these
correspondents through Che LEADER
The distances from here to the hills
and to the various points IN the
route have already been published.
CHEYENNE il situated at the juno
ton OF the 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 ubOut6 coo feet above
the sea level. a small stream, called
Grow Creek, flows down from this
range of Hills and through the west
ern and southwestern part of the
town site. Cheyenne Depot (some-
times called Camp Carlin) Il military
supply post, where there are "A num-
Der of warehouses and store houses
for the safe keeping of military and
Indian stores, is twO miles distant,
on Grow Greek, and has Il branch
railroad leading from il to the Union
Pacific. At this depot are a govern
ment wagon shop, bl tcksmith shop
and other shops, where II large mum
Der 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 II rolling prairie, well
adapted to the raising of cattle and
sheep, and covered with herds and
dOcks nf the nm 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 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 ediiceS, a fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGuldrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. +. w. Hill
lard, resident clergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. b. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. f.
Warren, resident minister; Congre-
g%ational, 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 Teuney, McGeehon and
~ oo hNol0AtlN ltuCtltiS. 1 ne
school building is a commOdiOus,
comfortable two story brick edifce.,
and IA erected in 1871, at ii cost of
$4,000. There is also Il private
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
Il number of small scholars in attend
ance-probably Twenty-Five.
There are in the town two large
Hardware, stove and tin stores
Henry HOusman and +. Schweickert
where all n of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houSeS-I.
Q. Whipple, Pease & Taylor, + Ma
gle where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can be pro-
cured. Besides these there are Il
number of retail grocery establish
ments-Leiby q Co., Underwood q
McGregor, at all of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can be
had. Fruit and Produce, ). II. Wood.
OF bakery and confectionery es-
Establishments there are the follow
ing: H. II. Ellis, Underwood q Nc
Gregor, and +. w. Keplinger,
where everything usually kept in Il
baking and confectionery establish
ment may be procured. OF drug
stores there are tWO-AddOmS d
NlONSl ailu lllllllul IIOS.-lilul lClD
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., /. 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 clothingr huuseS--B.
Hellman, Marks q Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry extern
6ive st0cks, and wholesale as well as
retail. b. Hellman 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. 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
a furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and G.. f. Thompson, Fan "outitr
all who call upon them, with boots
andShOeS. In jeWClry establishments
CHeyeuIle DDdSlS ~ Iark
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.
There are a number of good hotels
in the place, the principal among
which are Dyers Hotel, American
House, Planters House, and Railroad
Hotel. There are also several res
taurants in the place, where meals
can be nhtainnl mt nn- tinan m,Ln-a