The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-07-06

oht iai ptllSf hpuiu ~ nave
been to have left our Territory ia the
possession of the bands of Ishmaelites
who infest our great interior and
northern sections ofthis country, mn
der the control and sway of the saw
age Sitting Bovine.
But, fortunately for Wyoming Ter
ritory, this picture l have drawn is
an imaginary and one too not in
harmony with the facts as we find
thsm; for it is now demonstrated be-
yond u doubt that fair Wyoming con-
tains the natural elements and re-
sources of inestimable wealth, and
presents to u citizens, regardless of
age, sex, nativity or previous condi-
ton of s~ervitude, opportunities for
industrial enterprises seldom if ever
surpassed in this government.
Iron, the most useful of all the me-
tails and the foundation upon which
all our industrial interests depend,
is found in great variety of form
within our border.
Locked up in the mineral embraces
Of u coal fields, carbon exists in
efficient quantity to move the com
sbined nayies of the world for centu
ries. :
Gold, the true material represen-
tatiye of values, about which many
able speeches have been made in our
national halls of legislation, and Of
which so little has been seer in this
country eminating from Legislative
sources, does exist in paying quanti-
ties in the Medicine Bow, Sweet
water, Big Horn and Black Hills
ranges of our mountains, an ocular
demonstration of which can be made
any day on visiting the banks of our
city.
Silver, copper and graphite mines
and immense deposits of sulphate
and carbonate ofsoda are also known
to exist in various parts of our Ter
ritory, and ere long the mining and
preparation of these minerals will be-
! come important branches of industry
with our people.
Turning from the mineral to yege-
table kingdom, we find our Territory
no less favored with thousands Of
square miles Of fine timber and mil
lions of acres of arabic lands covered
with nutritious grasses that support
animal life during every month in
the year, together with illimitable
water powers and privileges, yet un-
claimed and ~unoccupied. Our Ter
ritory presents great inducements to
the immigrant with small meaus who
is willing and content to locate and
remain thereon and grow up with the
country.
No class of men reap larger re-
wards for their labor and investments
than do our citizens engaged i'll
growing cattle, horses and sheep. 1t
is scarcely possible for our eastern
friends to realize the value of our
winter grazing facilities until they
shall have visited the immense herd
grounds of our stock growers and
given that matter a personal inyesti-
cation. fThe act of Congress organ
izing Wyoming Territory and giving
it a political existence became q law
by the approval of the President of
the United States on the 25th day of
July, 1868, and soon after the
first legislative assembly of our Ter
ritory convened in the city of Chey-
ennc, and, after an arduous session
of sixty days, closed its labors by
giving to u people a wholesome
code of laws both civil and criminal,
and establishing the seat of govern
ment of our Territory here.
| cannot pass by the labors of that
assembly without paying a tribute of
respect to the wisdom and sagacity of
its members, (your humble servant
excepted as evidenced in the passage
of a law which at that time was by
many persons regarded as an innova-
ton upon the established codes Of
laws throughout the civilized world,
and as being an experiment. | al
lude to the act cnfranchising the
ladies of our Territory, and confer
ring upon them all the rights and
privileges under the law that the
would-be lords of creation enjoy, and
| congratulate the ladies of our Ter
ritory upon this acquisition Of the
prerogatives they have ever enjoyed,
end hope that this boon may be
vouchsafed to them and extended to
their sisters throughout our broad
land to all time.
Standing at the threshold of this
favored land so briefly described we
find our W chosen home, Cheyenne,
The sMagic City" of the plains.
On the 21st day of July, 1867,
this city was laid out by General G.
M. Dodge, the then chief engineer of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company,
and from that day to the present
time. notwithstanding the chnaummo-