The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-02-27
Iho CnI~n PaeIno Railroad va Chey-
enne.

enne OF late years, Will in time pro-
duce its natural results. We regret
its attitude towards this town for the
reason that while tins feel ng exists,
each Is capable OF doing the other
considerable injury, and asHLer will
feel like doing the other any good.
Perhaps both are to blame somewhat,
for this feeling. Many, very many of
our citizens claim that such repre-
sensations were made To them and to
the public, by General Dodge, Chief
Engineer Of the rond and Town Trus-
tee for the company, and 10y Ames
and athCT Directors Of the company,
during the years lSB7-6S. OF the i'm
portunCe Of Cheyenne, and the ma
chine shops, depots and other build
ings that the company intended to
erect in it, that they were induced to
make investments here i'm real estate,
buying lots from the company at
eXtravagunt prices and v%euturing into
business The company has not, up
to the present hour, made good the
promises Of its agents and representa-
tives, nor has it made any PREPARATION
to those citizens for the wrong thus
done them. 1t obtained their money
by making these representations
often all the money that individuals
had-nnd still retains the same, but
has not given the full consideration
that its agents represented it would
give. Lots in Cheyenne, purchased
from the Union Pacific Railroad In
IS6T-6S, would be worth at least n
hundred per cent. nor TO the pur-
chascrs, il the promised machine shops
and other buildings had been built
and operated, as they were induced to-
believe. Here was the first mistake.
or failure rather. Tine company has
not Offered to 40 anything beneficial
that would, in II measure, make up for
its negligence and failure to do what
was agreed to be done.
Naturally enough property wncr
were cXaspcratrd at the course of the
railroad company, and many OF these
citizens have NOT borne That company
a hearty good will for the past six or
seven years, and their mood in this
respect is not being changed for the
better by its recent coarse~
There have been those, however,
who, expecting better things from the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, and
trusting hat its promises were only
delayed, not broken, hoped for their
r,IHln,nnt Drf tIaua ..N.n,, .,V Ii
appointed, and became thoroughly
satisfied last year of the inimical atti-
tude Of the company to this place.
The consequence was, that the major
part of the business men of Cheyenne
took counsel together, and concluded
there vas a way to get in and out
from this place with freights and pas
senger travel without ~pHtroniHing the
Union Pacific Company. On this
hint they acted, and the Kansas
poses. We know whereof we speak
when we say the loss of this trade to
the Union Pacific Company was of so
much concern that it was deemed
worthy of consideration by the Boston
Board. The loss on freight traffic
from the LIST of July last until the LIST
of January was so considerable a sum,
that it would so n long way towards
completing the unfinished walls of
the proposed machine shop. The
same thing is being done now by
most of our merchants, and will con-
tinue to be done So long as the hostile
attitude of the Union Pacific Railroad
continues.
Notwithstanding this opposition
and the severe losses by fire hat this
city has undergone, the indomitubie
spirit, energy and enterprise of its
citizens and its position alone have
built it up. 1t has n good country
surrounding it, that yearly will in
crease in Importance; and each year
only brings it nearer to the time when
Northern Wyoming will be opened to
settlement, and a route for trade and
travel established direct from Chey-
the base of the Big Horn Mountains.
These things are certain to come, and
when they do Il prosperity is as
sured. The railroad company has
not the power to do us a great deal of
harm now-not near so much as in
days past and our business men have
it in their power to Withhold benefits
from it greater than at any other
period.
While we regret the existence Of
this hostile attitude, in common with
the business element of the place, and