The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1879-12-20

thousand. As necessity. hewn logs
were substituted for boards in the walls
OF many prctentions buildings even on
business streets, East west and north
the town spread like prairie fire.
At present Leadvllle is fully equipped
with all the social; educational and re.
ligious advantages that can be found
anywhere in town of its size. 1t has
three daily newspapers, one good school
building, two church edif;ces, Methodist,
Presbyterian, Baptist; Episcopal and
Catholic organizations, Il city hall and
jail, tiIc company, two theatres, four
teen hotels, ten restaurants, five general
merchants, four dry goods, ten clothing,
eleven grocery, three drug, four jewelry,
SIX boot and shoe, one commission, three
fruit and confectionery; two furniture
five feed and gram; two hardware and
two book and stationery merchants, twelve
meat markets, three sign painters, two
lighthouses, six barber shops, three bak-
cries, ten blacksmith shops, one machine
shop, three wagon shops, one auction
house, one harness shop, thirty two
lawyers, twelve physicians, TWO dentists,
one photographer, three banks, one
knitting factory, six steam sawmlhs,
one planning mill, one shingle and lath
mlll, five smelting-werks Including one
each at Malta and Adclaidel, and three
sampling- works. There is the usual mum
Der OF saloons and gambling hells, and
even dance houses, to rob the unwary
money and health and honor. The simple
enumeration of business houses conveys
bu5 a faint idea of the yolume Of business
transacted Many Of the merchants car
ry stocks which would hetonsidered pre-
posterouslv large in towns OF similar
size at the East.
And Leadville's future progress prom
iscs 70 be as brilliant as its past. Be
fore long 1t will enjoy the Iuxuries Of
pure water ana gas. Tie water-works
are 50 tar completed that the mains have
been laid, tile hydrants put in place
along several streets, and the water let in.
Gas has been authorized BY a nearly
unamnnsus vote Of the citizens, and an
efficient tire department, with one hook
and ladder and two hose companies. has
been organized Leadville's present tele-
graph facilities are to hc doubled by the
use Of Z duplex machine. ! two wire
IT. I'll. Atill@ ~ Ill 4 lIasfss VI GoH-
struetion, and was t. have been COM
pletea by he first q IN The growth
of the postofiice IS an index Of tine rapid
progress Of the town. One year AGO the
LcadyIlle postotiice occupied seven-by
nine corner in q small building on Chest
nut street. II the single delivery win
9oN stood call-belt, 1T whose warning
some clerk would enter from an adtoln-
ing store 10 wait on the eXpectant
citizen. There was no money order de
partmcnt. To-day the office occupies
one OF the largest rooms in the city, and
requires the unremitting attention of
ten clerks. 1t has its separated ladies
STAMP and money-order departments.
Long lines of men may he seen at all
hours Of the day standing at the four
general delivery windows impatiently
waiting their turn And all this has
been accomplished within two years. As
one of the citizens of Leadyille writes
It is simply magical, this creation Of 4
city III the heart Of the Rocky mountains,
two miles above the sea, ~ / twelve
month. Huper's Weekly