The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-03
RAILROAD REvERBERArIoH..

LOT several days.
benver's ambition is to be connected
by rail with the gold fields of Montana.
The Denver Pacific and Colorado
Central railroads are to have their road
beds overhauled in springtime.
The cars military railroad in Rus
STA is to cost thirty millions. 1t is thought
that the dividends will be small.
When the Wyoming, Montana and
Pacific road is built Cheyenne will have
rail connections with the four points Of,
the compass.
1t is predicted that 1880 will be the
greatest railroad year this country has
ever known. 1t may be for some of the
stockholders.
Cold feet and hot head is the newt
able result of a ride in a railroad car in
this country in winter. The stove is a
regular red hot nuisance.
The Montana and Oregon papers are
urging the building of the Wyoming,
Montana and Pacific road. They don't
stock much on the Utah northern mar
row gauge. E
Freedom from robbery on Pullman
cars, and general excellence of every
thing, is due to the fine system of de
t~ective work the company has always
in operation.
1t is the general impression of rail-
way travellers that the cigars sold by
train boys are made of discarded shoe
leather filled in with onions that have
ceased to be vegetables.
An engineer on the Baltimore and
Ohio celebrated his fifty-third birthday
by blowing the whistle that number of
times when he passed his native village.
The inhabitants then wished he had
died in infancy.
Boston don't care about an L road,
because the cultured folks of the village
are not yet elevated up to that railroad
standard. If the line could be built on
pedigree painted with blue blood, they
would have had it long ago. H
Impecunious folks possessed of just
enough legal knowledge to be danger
Gus, are the ones who like to be put off
a train, for they see possible damages
when the brakeman kicks them from the
rear platform of the last ear.
The private car in which Jay Gould
travels comprises a parlor, stateroom,
kitchen, and smoking salon, besides a
compartment for luggage and supplies.
1t has movable trucks, and can be run
on any road in this country.
The New York and Philadelphia
limited express trains give one. Of the
finest exhibitions of creased lightning
that anybody cares to witness. You
have NJ sooner sat down and got COM
Portable, than your destination is reach
ed.
Orders from Europe for Pullman cars
continue to come with more rapidity
than they can be supplied. In England
they have become quite the rage, and
W ~ III nv 10 IL iCttuCi III Ollt y cap.
or high hat, whichever happens to be
worn.
For twenty consecutive years John
w. Garrett has reigned as president
of the Baltimore and Ohio, and the
probabilities are he will keep the posi-
ton for ever. He began at the lowest
round of the ladder, but now he is way
up among the CARROTS.
President Leland Sanford, of the
Central Pacific railway, will plant upon
his Menlo Park estate, rear San Fran
cisco, every kind of tree, shrub or vine
that will grow in California. Several
cars are now on their way West with
1881 plants he has purchased on Long
Island.
Some new life has been infused into
the Texas Pacific road. A contract has
just been signed for $50 miles of road
between Fort Worth and Ell Paso. The
contract price is $40, 900 per mile, pay
able in the first mortgage bonds of the
company. The T. P. has been a long
time about getting this much done but
''better late than never"
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
gave IL grand banquet at the Grand
Central, Denver, on New Years eve,
to railroad officials and leading citizens
of Denver. The banquet was in COM
memoration of the advent of the great
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
to Kansas City, completing its south
western branch from Wilton junction
on the main line between Chicago and
Omaha.
Proposals for Fresh Beef and Beef Cattle.
OFFICE OF THE G. S.
OMAHA, Neb.,
Dec. 18th, 10.
Sealed proposals in triplicate, subject
to the usual conditions, will be
received at this office or at the
office of the G. s. near White
River agency, COL, until ~ O'Clock,
noon, February I'd, 1880, at which time
and place they will be opened in the
presence of bidders for furnishing and
da1ivaripu oil tho fraob haaf from tho