The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-01
THE B. s., P. B. & T. D. F. R. R.
The Enterprising City Of Pine Bluffs corraIs
the Trade Of this Great West by a Bold
and Successful Railroad Scheme.

Many of the way stations on the U.
P. R. R. east and west of Cheyenne are
getting excited about being the I" start
ing point for the Black Hills railroad"
Pine Bluffs is, S o far, ahead of all of
them. She has organized a railroad
company called the Behring's Straits,
Pine Bluffs and Terra del Fuego Rail-
road Company" This company has
thrown on the home market
FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS
of it's ten per cent. ~fifty-year bonds,
which it is offering for a few days only
at par, as they are expected to be at n
premium soon. None of them will be
offered in the eastern markets, as it is
confidently believed that the entire
issue will be taken by Pine Bluffs citi-
zens. The issue is made on the basis
of $4,000 per mile on ten thousand
miles of road, all in gold. A large mill
for making the paper on which to print
them is under way on Judge Tracy's
grounds, south of the track, and a
mammoth set of steel works is also erect
ing, as the company will present each
buyer of a $4,000 bond 1.-THE smallest
denomination issued) with an elegant
pair of nickel plated tailor's shears
with which to cut off the interest cou-
pons. The liue will be
PUSHED OUT AT ONCE
both north and south, like a breech-
loader firing at both ends, and will
reach Deadwood and the Staked
Plains of Texas about July 4th. The
traffic in ice from the Arctic zone to
the temperate and torrid will alone
pay the interest on the bonds, and the
returning cargoes of bananas, monkeys
and other tropical fruits will cover the
running expenses Chicago will abol-
ish her divorce courts and send to the
warmer chimes her conjugal disputants
whose affections have grown cold,
whist the red-hot, or %fire-eating poll
ticians will be sent through in carload
lots at reduced rates, to
COOL OFF N ALASKA.
A tragic occurrence marked the be-
ginning of the projected road, which
we greatly regret. A delegation of
citizens from some station, called Gin
der, or Sidney, or some other name,
called IN the Superintendent of the B.
S., z. B. & T. D. F. r. r. Co. with a
proposal to run out a branch from their
station and tap the main line at the
Platte. But the Superintendent ran
out himself and got a green club, with
which he tapped" the members of
the delegation on their heads, driving
them into the ground up to their Shout
ders and popping their craniums
like so many blown-up bladders.
J. B. Adams, known in journalistic
circles hereabouts as "Wyoming Kit"
formerly local editor on one of Slack's
Laramie City publications, and recent
ly connected with the Cheyenne Daily
Scrap Book, has fallen somewhat lower,
being now under sentence of twenty
days. Imprisonment for the larceny of
bedding, etc., from a room in the Carey
block. Other charges of a similar ma
ture are pending against him and his
term of imprisonment will probably be
heightened. Whisky did it.
We again suggest to the City Council
the propriety of immediate action on
the matter of numbering all the build
ings of the city and the placing of signs
giving the names of streets upon all the
n This is something which will
prove very beneficial and can be done at
a very trifing expense, as the city will
only have to pay for the street corner
signs, while the numbering of houses,
stores, etc., will cost not to exceed %
cents each, and will come from the
owners pockets.
G.. E. Houphton has received a car