The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-16


Boston tourist and the crocuses are in
audibly singing "'tis hud q little flow
err
The robins are fitting about the trees
picking out building lots in a prospect
i've new town and awaiting the less &C.
tive mortals who do not rise with the
sun, with a serenade equal to auy effort
Of the Cheyenne brass band.
The sugar naples have bled their
rich juices which in turn have been
boiled down into cakes of tempting
flavor. And a few weeks hence these
will be mixed with rough molasses su-
gar in parts Of one to twenty and sold
to the unsuspecting western ranchman
as Simon pure and right from "Var-
mont" Some of the transformations
of these latter days are miraculous.
The farmers have not yet COM
menced talking about the fairs of Sep
TENDER coming, but the affairs of their
own acres are being put in shipshape
and the hired man has been sworn In
with a strikingly ironclad oath.
SYRACUSE.
Some Of the interior cities of this
state show every sign of healthy
growth and prosperity and in none is
this prosperity more noticeable than in
the city of Syracuse On the New York
Central railroad.
This city has now about 10000 in
habitants and is rapidly assuming a
prominent position as a manufacturing
center, which tendency is increased by
the fact of its being a railroad center
as well. There is a healthy SAVIOR in its
prosperity which bespeaks permanence.
The Onandaga salt works may have
something to do with this season of
success. The evaporating houses cover
acres of land along the railroad as it
passes the lake into town, and the
brightly labelled sacks are familiar OBJ
jects over the country, even in the new
west where things are supposed to be
fresh.
hAlLROAD SHOPS.
The railroad shops are numerous and
extensive, all branches of railroad
work from the rolling mills do Tn to the
paint shops. Tho Central company
have started a little town of their own
by removing the larger proportion of its
shops from the city about two miles
and locating its employees there. The
point is known as East Syracuse and
nov has a population of about 1900
people. There are a number of other
towns in the suburbs which really be-
long to the city, although not a part Of
the city corporation. These villages in
the outskirts would swell the city'a
population to about IS, 200.
GUNS.
There are two prominent gun factor.
les here, that Of the La Fevre and the
Baker guns. The Baker shop is run
ming about eighty men now and will
fall about 1,500 guns short in filling its
orders this year. These guns are well
known to sporting men and are meet.
ing with a heavy sale. The inventor,
well known to us, is a genius but not a
inancier. 1t is needless to say that the
invention has passed out Of his hands,
In invention as elsewhere it is seldom
the hardy prospector who discovers the
lead that reaps the big money. 1t i.
rather the California company which
buys for a few pounds Of bacon and
mule what they stock for millions,
Among others, there are extensive
nail works, spring works, bolt shops
and a hundred and one heavy interests
noisy and dirty, but money-making.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT
is not used as extensively in the east,
would seem, a. it is in the west. Ii
Chicago its ghastly glow was to be peel
on nearly every street in the bushes
center Of the city and and so with 9th
er towns farther west, but in this Em
pire state city n large pump manu-
factory gains an enviable prominenc
in the eyes Of passers-by among all tn
manufacturing interests by lighting 1t
shops for night work by the electri
lamp.
BUILDINGS.
There are numerous fine public, bus
ness and private buildings erected an
In the process Of erection now. I'll
Wertig opera house, which our reader
Of Geographic news will remember wa
destroyed by fire a few months since
being replaced by a magnificent bloc.
Of brick and stone in which will bs, 8
the admiring citizens claim, the fines
opera house in the state outside of Ne,
York city. The block is a fine one
certainly.
There has been a large number Z
private residences erected recently, a
of which show the effect of the moo
ern craze after the antique IN the
style of architecture.
Mr.. White, the White of the city
has erected a residence recently in til
Queen Anne collection Of solid beam
and pondereus carvings, in the latte