The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-26
CHEYENNE AS AN OUTFITTING
POINT

from here I o 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 m the
route nave already been published.
Cheyenne Is situated at the juno
tion OF the Union Pacific and Kansas
Pacific railroads, and about seventeen
miles east of the Black Hills range,
eli a high plateau of land, the eieva-
tion of which is about 8 900 feet above
the sea level. A 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 (some-
tunes called Camp Carlin) II military
supply past, where there are Il num-
Der uf warehouses and store houses
for the safe keeping Of military and
Indian stores, is two miles distant,
on Crow Greek, and has II branch
railroad leading from it to the Union
Pacific. AT this depot are "A govern
ment wagon shop, bl tcksmiih shop
and other shops, where n large num-
Der of tradesmen find employment
in the government service. a mile
still further up Crow Greek is Fort
1Nu~1ttiY u hlNftil GDlilIlhlN nllllliTN
garrison, commanded by Gen. j. j.
Reynolds. at present there are but
nine companies stationed there.
The country for miles around
Cheyenne is IA rolling prairie, well
q iapted To the raising of cattle aud
sheep, and covered with herds and
1ocks nf the am Eighteen miles
away to the west, the Metcalf Min
inF IlfzIFinf hanfna nFhnrn pr,.n.l ,a,t
per and silver ores are found In
abundance. This district is now
being developed by citizens of Chey-
enue, and will, no doubt, prove Of
great value.
Cheyenne has about 1900 inhabi-
tants. This number does not include
transient persons. 1t has five good,
substantial church edificeS, as fol-
lows: Catholic, Father McGoidrick,
pastor; Episcopal, Rev. L. w. Hi
lard, resident cl~ergymen; Presby-
terrain, Rev. w. b. Reed, resident
minister; Methodist, Rev. w. +.
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. Il. Stark, rs principal,
and Misses Tenney, McGeeHon and
Bryant as assistant teachers. The
school building is a cnmmodious,
comfortable we story hrick edifice,
AMI was erected in 1871, at a cost of
$I2 900. There is also a private
school kept by a Miss Ellis, who has
II number of small scholars in attend
ance -probahly twenty-five.
There are in the town two large
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Henry HOusman and F. Sch weickert
where all manner of mining tools
and carpenter tools are for sale; three
large wholesale grocery houSes-I.
g. Whipple, Pease & Taylor, L Ma
gle-where everything in the grocery,
provision and grain trade can he pro-
cured. Besides these there are a
number of retail grocery establish
meuts-Leiby & Co., Underwood &
McGregor, at all of which good
stocks of fresh groceries can be
had. Fruit and Produce, ). H. Wood.
OF bakery and confectionery ps-
Establishments there are the follow
Ing; III. H. Ellis, Underwood & Nc
Gregor, and +. 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 HurIbut BroS.-and there
will be no difficulty in procuring at
these places anything usually kept at
q first class drug establishment.
There are three large dry goods es-
Observation-Disclosures & Meyers, Gen.
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
''reauy made clothing" hnuses--B.
Hellman. Marks & Meyers, Peter
Smith-all of them carry extern
sive stocks, and wholesale as well rs
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
can furnish all demands on these
branches of trade. In the boot and
shoe trade the stores of Stephen Bon
and G. f. Thompson, can "outfit"
all who, call upon them. with boots
and shoes. In jewclry establishments
Cheyenne boasts two-JoslIn & Park
and David Miller. The former has a
reputation throughout the United
States and Europe for excellence
of workmanship. ami the place may
we'll 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
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