The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-09
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well employed at good wages.
The large store Of Beckwith, Quinn
* Co., is constantly crowded with pur-
chasers; and Mr.. o. G. Smith, the eff
Gent manager, who is also postmaster
here, is kept very busy in attending to
the wants of his many customers.
Hotels and eatinghouses at this place
are doing a very profitable business.
Among the boarding houses are those
of MrysJoseph Wise, VIM. Musgroye
and George Harris, all of whom are old
timers in the business, and know how
TO keep hotels and cater to the wants of
their patrons.
The coal company owns extensive
works at this place where the best coal
yet found in Wyoming Is being mined.
There are over 600 MIXERS in the en-
ploy of the company, and the daily pro-
duct is great. The coal deposits in this
region are immense, covering an area
of many miles. The supply therefore is
inexhaustible for generations to come,
Notwithstanding the large daily output.
This section of Wyoming, which ap-
pears TO the casual observer to be only
a dreary desert, valuless and unproduc-
tiye-the alkali and sagebrush wilder
ness of Bitter CREEKS really the most
valuable and productive part of Wyo-
ming at present, the daily product of
the mines being valued at many thous-
ands of dollars.
Green River City.
This s~prightly little burg is inhabited
by the most active and enterprising
population to be found in this territory.
Green River City is the county seat of
Sweetwater, has fine public buildings
and is the center of trade of a large
section Of country. 1t is the starting
point OF the mail and stage line of the
Wyoming Stage Company, I. A. Nc
Coy, superintendent. Stages leave
here every morning for the Sweetwater
mines and Fort Washakie, in the Wind
River valley. Travellers who are de-
tanned here, find the best of accomo-
dation at the Desert House. kept by the
well known hotel men, Messrs. Kitchen
Bros. and also at the Big Horn Hotel,
a fine two story brick structure, owned
and kept by the genial and popular
Sam Mathews. The leading merchants
at this place are J. II. Mason and ALI.
Young, both old timers and solid bust
ness men. Mr.. B. Spinner a a large
meat market here, who supplies it from
his stock ranch ON the Green River, and
Messrs. PelilSan Il Spinner are the pro-
prietors of the only brewery in Sweet
water county, whose beer is celebrated
for its fine quality and flavor.
Ex-County Clerk Mcintosh is putting
the finishing touches to his fine billiard
hall and sample rooms, which will be
opened to the public next Saturday, and
he will probably divide with Joe.
Payne, who keeps the corner billiard
and club room, the patronage of the
many young and men who spend their
leisure hours in first class places of
amusement.
Tho Mines.
S~weetwater county has also q mining
boom for the coming spring. Good
reports from the new mines near La
Barge, on the Green river, heretofore
mentioned in the LEADER, have re-
Gently been received. Assays of ores
from the e discoveries have gone up
to the hundreds, and many locations
have been made. Mr.. Samuel Mathews,
of the Big Horn Hotel, has recently OBJ
tanned from the mines neal Bullion
City, in the Uintah mountains, about
100 miles south of this place. fine speci-
mems Of silver carbonates. which have
brought from fifty to ffe hundred dol
lars. Several Leadville miners have
gone to that region during the past
year. and are still at work on their
claims. In the early spring many more
prospectors will follow, and as Green
River City is the nearest railroad sta
ton to the new mines, it will profit by
their development.
The prospects Of the old mining dis
tricts in Sweetwater are also brighten
ing for the future. The Miners De-
light has recently been sold to Califor-
mia parties, who propose to sink at once
two hundred feet deeper on the claim,
in order to test it. Messrs. Koon
Brothers, of Ogden, have charge of the
mine for the new company and will ex-
pend S25, 200 in its development. Under
their are this valuable property, which
has suffered from bad management for
years, will undoubtedly become a source
of great profit to its owners
The Garry Shields, in the South
Pass district, is another valuable gold
mine on which work has been resumed
lately. The ore shows fine gold in
abundant quantities, and the most
primitive machinery at this mine has
ground out over IS, 1000 last season. The
Caribou, in Atlantic district, and a
number of other mines. are equally
promising; they need only the intelli-
gent employment of sufficient capital, to
become bonanzas to their owners. This
capital could easily be obtained, IL as
surance could be had, that investors
could be secured against losses caused