The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-27
THE MINING EXPOSITION.
Prospects OF n Big AtteDdance-The
Gain for Wyoming.
Correspondence OF the LEADER.

DENVER, Col, April 25, 1882.
New England excurionists are rat
thing about Colorado at rather an mop
perfume time. Your readers well know
that If a snow storm is more likely to
strike the mountains at one time than
another, 1t is in the latter part of April
just when the ladies get fairly into
spring housekeeping. OF course a Bos-
t%onian, even though he is worth a mil
lion, a not be expected to know this,
and so the esthetic Yankees have seen
all sorts of weather. More than that,
the telegraph reports that a party Of
eighty excursionists were last night
tumbled off the Rio Grande track, in
defiance of the fact that every nan and
m Of them belongs to the first
families. None were seriously injured,
we are glad to say, else Rio Grande
stock would have had a worse tumble
than the excursionists.
These ''early birds'' are only the ad-
vance line of the coming flock. Mr..
Crofutt, author of the "Grip-Sack," is
now interviewing the railroad authori-
ties In the interest Of the exposition,
and arranging a series of tours and ex-
cursions that will rake the whole coun-
try. There will more eastern people
visit Colorado this year than have come
in all previous years combined. The
country at large is prosperous; there are
nc politics or other excitement to draw
public attention; there has always ex-
Isted a strong desire to visit the noun
tains at the right time, and there are
inducements now which never existed
before. The railroad facilities are
largely increased, and the mining expo
position is a novelty.
A little finance just now would give
Cheyenne a share of the profits of this
increased travel. The excursionists
will make the exposition the central
point, but while they are here they will
see much more. The military posts of
Wyoming will be a novelty to thous-
anus, lh4LlChoo AuLuOclo Will NduG "
see the wonders of the summit between
Cheyenne and Laramie; the colony
planted by Horace Greeley and its IT.
rigating system will be a study to in
telligent and progressive agriculturists,
and there are multitudes who will want
to say that they visited one spot where
the intelligent white was at
least politically equal to a negro. I'm
doubtedly the Union Pacific would be
glad to divide the crowds which will
burden its lines as nearly equal as pos
sible between all three of its lines, so
that the Wyoming tour would cost moth
ing extra.
The walls Of the exposition building
are rising, and there is little doubt that
it will be completed a THE
time agreed, July 18th. If we may
judge of the popularity of the EXPOSE
tion idea by the tone of the press of the
country, its success in attracting a pay
ing attendance is already assured. The
list of applications filed with the secre-
tary show that the exhibition will be
all that can be desired.
A good deal of encouragement is felt
by the general public over the returns
of the mineral product for the first
quarter of the year. The increase in
1881 was not equal to the ratio Of in
crease in the general popula ton, but
the advance during the past three
months from well developed mines,
is fully ten per cent. over the cor
responding period Of last year.
Before the close of the second quarter
several important new mines will add
to the aggregate production and make
the general increase for the state fully
fifteen per cent.