The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-20
THE CHEYENNE LEADER.

Baker, Esq. founder of THE LEADER,
arrived in Cheyenne. This was on
Monday, Sept. 10th, 1867. On Thurs
day, Sept. 10th, the first number of THE
CHEYENNE LEADER was issued from
Mr.. Bakers office, on Eddy street, be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth. 1t
was a four-page paper of four columns
to the page, printed on a sheet 15x21
inches in size, and was issued on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays until
December of that year. The advertisers
in the first number were DIR. James r.
win; Cornforth Bros, groceis; Scudder
& Boyer, news depot; S. NJ. Preshaw,
carpenter; j. 5. Andrews, grocer; c. b.
Stephenson, furniture dealer; the Ele-
plant Corral; Lincoln & Stricken, auc-
tioneers; w. d. Robinson, painter; J..
G. Kinney, stone mason; Hartman &
Taggart, liverymen; w. II. Heath &
Co.. auctioneers; ]. Masterson, real es-
tate dealer; Freund g. Bro, gunsmiths;
Harper, Steel & Co., hardware dealers;
E. B. Griffin, book store; John Kupfer,
matchmaker; George Tritch, hardware
dealer, and F. L. Tilton & Co., liquor
dealers. The list is short, but with
succeeding issues the number of adver-
tisers increased. and THE LEADER has
never had reason to complain of lack of
patronage from the live business men
of the Magic City.
On Saturday, December 21st, 1867,
the first number of the CHEYENNE
DAILY LEADER was issued. This was
a handsome sheet, 20x30 inches in size,
having four pages of six columns each,
published every evening except Sun
day. The office had then been removed
to O'Neill street, between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth. In June, 1868, it was
again removed to Ferguson street, be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth, where
it remained "a long time. Since that
date the Office has been destroyed by
fire, and removed from place to place.
On the 18th day of October last the
presses and material of the Office were
removed to the new LEADER building,
an engraving of which we give above,
and wherein WI now have one of the
most commodious and best appointed
newspaper offices in the west, compris-
ing a large Potter drum cylinder press,
upon which the editions of the Daily
and Weekly LEADER are printed, a
quarto-medium Universal job press, an
eigth-medium Gordon job press, for fine
printing-all propelled by steam pow
er-and a Washington h~and-press, for
posters and common printing. An ex-
tensive and complete assortment of
newspaper, book and job type, together
with every kind of material for carry
ing ON the printing business, combine
to make THE LEADER steam printing
house one of the best establishments of
the kind in the west. A corps of gen
tlemanly and experienced employees is
constantly employed in the office, while
the editorial department is managed by
gentlemen of experience, of whose
ability our readers are the best judges.
THE LEADER
Has always been foremost in advancing
the interests of Cheyenne and Wyo-
ming. AT different eras in the history
of the Magic City, when the cloud of
hard times spread like a pail over her
people, the voice Of The LEADER was
still heard, urging its citizens to put
their shoulders to the wheel and help
Cheyenne out of the slough of despond,
and we flatter ourselves that our efforts
have not been all in vain. Through
flood and fire, through storm and calm,
this journal. has borne the brunt of the
good fight, and now that Peace is hover
ing DER the war-worried frontier, we
rejoice to see on every hand evidences
Of substantial growth and increased
prosperity.
THE LEADER was first to put faith
in and publish to the world the exist
ence of rich gold mines in the Black
Hills, and waged a long and bitter fight
against thousands of disbelievers, jour
nalistic and otherwise, who charged us
with being paid by sharpers who knew
there was no gold in the Hills and only
desired to have the tide of travel come
to Cheyenne that they might fleece the
green gold-seekers and q. their own
pockets-and ours-with the ill-gotten
gains. Now we look hack ovnr tbe
years in which we struggled build up
Cheyenne, and particularly when we
were talking Black Hills against a tide
of foul abuse and filthy falsehoods
which might have overawed us, had our
cause not been just and our belief in
the new Ell Dorado's richness we'll
founded-we look back to those troub-
lous times and smile the smile of VIC
tory. The Black Hills have filed to
overlooking with hardy miners; thou
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