The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-01
LARAMIE LINES.
Notes Of Interest From the Quiet Village
"Oyer the HILL"

Irregular Correspondence of THE LEADER.)
LARAMIE CITY, Feb. %.
Winter seems broken, and the cold
and buster of December and January,
have given place to the mildness Of
May. And this is not a fseeting change,
for the beautiful weather has continued
some weeks already and gives promise
of permanence.
With the exception of slight ailments,
almost everybody is well, and the large
number who have come here to seek a
restoration Of failing health, are much
encouraged.
There have been times when money
seemed more plenty, but if you note a
few items of business for the past year,
you must conclude that somebody lives
here, and that some do not go hungry,
nor do merchants go poor. MI. G. S.
Dunbar, who is only n of some eight
or nine grocers here, reports his sales
for the past year at $780, DOC, cash.
And Mr.. Ora Haley, who own n Of
the four or five markets, has had sales
amounting to over 10000. This is
probably a fair index of other branches
of business. The lawyers are sleek and
prosperous, the doctors vaccinate all
the people in the absence of other bust
ness, on the report of smallpox at Sid
ney or Ogden, and the editors actually
get rich, a thing not often heard of in
that calling, if one may believe their
own representations. No slight amount
of Quitting for the mining regions
about us is done here, if we may judge
by the ''mule whacking" we see on our
streets. These men do not wait for
spring, but we hear of new and excit-
ing discoveries, and developments al
most every day.
The latest sensation is the reported
discovery of a body of telluride of gold
in the mountains west of us.
Our friends at Deadwood and Custer
bewail bitterly the knavery that sends
their mail past Cheyenne, to Sidney,
thus causing much vexatious delay and
unnecessary expense, if not total loss.
We know the voice of THE LEADER is
for righting this wrong, and trust it will
soon cease.
We expected stock to suffer from the
rigorous weather we had at first, but it
was a groundless foreboding, and time
and the hardest experiences we are like
ly to have only confirm this as the best
stock region known.
Court has received a large share of
attention for the past few weeks; and
judge, %juries, and prosecutors have won
the commentator of all lovers of law
and order, and the maledictions of the
| vicious.
The action of the board of education,
in accepting $500 for a claim of $4,000
to avoid endless litigation with uncer-
tainty IS a possible goal, has been crit
icised by some, but the board is conf
posed of sterling business men, in
whom the people repose all confidence,
and whose action they will sustain.
The fine literary and musical posi-
bilities of our people have found a more
adequate field for improvement in the
revivifying of the literary society con-
nected with u library association.
These meetings are now held every two
weeks, are participated in by u best
people, and are a perpetual source of
pride and enjoyment. Through this as
ISOLATION, the standard magazines and
over a thousand volumes of carefully
selected books are accessible to the
reading public, at the trihing cost of 81
per year.
We are deploring the loss of the Rev.
G. Johnston, late rector of the Epis-
copal church, who has gone to George
town, Colorado. Mr.. Johnston had Just
entered upon the duties of county
school superintendent, which office he
was filling with interest and intelli-
gence. His official mantle has fallen
upon Rev. Mr.. Hamilton, who will be
a worthy successor.
The mail route between this point
and the White River Agency is an &C.
complished fact. All that is necessary
nov is to get service ordered. The mil
itary wagon road will also become a re-
atty, and then the Hahn's Peak wagon
road for which we have so long labored
will be a fixed and permanent thorough
fare of this country. This is but the
beginning of what will be. This outlet
to the south and west will bring to our
people millions of wealth in the untold
treasures of the Rockies, while capital
will seek investment in all of the varied
industries of our section.
The enterprise and money of our peo-
pie will very soon secure the erection of
a fine bridge across the North Platte
river on the great WILDE route to the
North Park.
The rolling mills, which have been
idle for some time, will start up again
tomorrow morning, so superintendent
Brazier says. This will be of great
benefit to our people. F.
1t is said that the unpleasant squeak