The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-31
CHEYENHE
Her Progress During h Past Year
What Has Been and Is Beng Done
The Enterprise Of Our People.

The Enterprise Of our People.
In looking back Yer the progress OF
Cheyenne for the past year, we cannot
but congratulate our people on what
has been accomplished, and the earnest
given OF what Is yet TO be done. Our
city has very largely increased in popu-
~lation, and its business gives evidence
of the increasing Importance and wealth
of this part of Wyoming. Many new
and substantial business houses have
been erected, new streets laid out, and
a large number of handsome residences
have been built, displaying good taste
in their construction, as well as develop
irg the faith of our people in the per-
manence of our business interests.
DAILY LINES OF STAGES
run regularly between here and Custer
City and Deadwood, in the Black Hills,
and mainly through the energy and
enterprise of a few of our best citizens,
a telegraph line now also connects us
with those points. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in gold dust from the
new mines have come to Cheyenne as
the only practicable and available out
let, and an immense business in traffic
of every kind has sprung up between
this city and the Hills. Two new mil
itary posts have been established-at
Sage creek and Red canon-for the
protection of travel ON this line, and
these will doubtless be strengthened
and maintained until the whole Indian
difficulty is settled.
THE INDIANS
at Red Cloud, who, a year ago were
plundering and numbering daily along
this route, have been disarmed, dis
mounted, and turned over to the mill
tary authorities, so that there is no
longer a standing menac to people
going to the Bills from the Agency-fed
savages. The Northern Indians, now
the only mes left who can do any mis-
chief on that line, are being gradually
driven back under the energetic man
agement of our department commander,
and stripped of their plumber and of
their means for carrying on any aggres-
sive movements.
This work, the result Of the active
military operations of the year, has
secured to US a
PERMANENT OUTLET
from the Hills, and opened the way
for thousands of hardy pioneers to
go in there and settle the country.
Even Congress, no longer able to deny
the Importance of the great mining in
terests in the Black Hills, Or to with
stand the wish of the people to 60 there
and occupy that rich section, wrested
by their own energy from the savages,
has begun to consider that the people
have some rights there paramount to
those claimed by the Indians, and is
country into an important territory.
Every movement for the opening up
of that region has been made through
the
ENERGY OF THE PEOPLE OF cHEY-
ENNE,
and it is through their indefatigable
labors that we have the stage and tele-
graph lines which now secur us the
only permanent connection with the
Hills. Nearly all the supplies for those
in the Hills, and going there, have
passed through here, and will continue
to do SO. In this way our citizens are
reaping some of the fruits Of their en-
terprise and well-directed energy.
ARAILRoAD NEEDED.
What is now greatly needed is
a railroad to the mining regions,
and before another year passes by
we hope to see one well under way.
The transportation Of troops and sup
plies alone from Cheyenne to Fort
Laramie, for that and adjacent posts,
would be a very large paying item, to
say nothing of the great and constantly
increasing travel and traffic between
here and the Hills. We hope to see the
Union Pacific railroad take hold of this
enterprise at an early day, and push it
with energy. Such a road is bound to
be built, and that soon, and with Chey-
enne as its initial point.