The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-11-04

The cattle ears now ont of demand
for cattle shipments will be utilized for
coal.
Some of the finest cabooses On the
line are turned out at the shops near
the wy.
The Chicago, Burlington 81 Quincy
seems to be in earnest about its western
extension to Salt Lake.
Repairs are being made about the old
depot to make it as comfortable and
convenient as may be with such a
structure.
The Sioux City & Pacific railroad
promises now to be soon tapping the
finest part of Wyoming's grazing lands,
and will reach into a rich mineral re-
gion. Unless its progress Is met by a
road from the south it will cut off a
great deal of southern carrying trade
and afford to the people of the north
an excellent means of intercourse with
the outside world. The course of the
road lies up the Running Water.
The various railroad offices are scat
tered along the main track in the yard
for q distance of FIVE or SIX blocks, be-
ginning with the freight office on Eddy
and ending with Mr.. Davis office six
blocks east. The baggage and express
offices are near Hill street, and the tele-
graph Office is a block east, the train
dispatchers' and roadmasters' offices
still further on. C%heyenne's is n
mighty fine station for those ambitious
of pedestrian honors; for those enjoying
a social hash and perfumes more per-
sistent than delicate.
Yesterday workmen commenced to
tear down the walls of the old partially
completed railroad shops east OF the
round house, and the stone will be util-
lied in building the shops just begun.
An additional force Of men was put on
the work yesterday, and now about
fifty men are making the stone chips
and the gravel fly, while the ring of
trowels furnishes a musical accompani-
ment for the masons who are finishing
up the foundation walls. With such a
force of men and a strong incentive to
rapid work, the shops will soon rise
from the foundation walls toward COM
pletion.
Cheyenne needs Il new depot. The
accommodations for weary
mortals waiting for a delayed No. 3, or
a belated No. 4, are wonderfully poor
at this point. So emphatically poor
and worse than poor are the depot ar
engagements that the Railroad hotel
is turned into a ladies'
waiting room by our townspeople, and
the gentlemen talk politics and look
anxiously toward the east or toward
Otto from the platform in front of the
hotel in pleasant weather, or hug the
stove on cold days. Strangers,
and those who hesitate about turning a
hotel into a depot, sit upon the pine
benches which run around the depot
waiting room and sniff the bad air
with liquor-laden breaths,
muscular feet and the general unclean-
liness Of the average emigrant passen-
of all colors and nationalities.
And the room is not large enough for
these, even.
There are many good reasons why u
should be made in the location
the headquarters of the Laramie
division, which would bring them also
to Cheyenne with the general superin-
tendent's headquarters and the head
quarters of the Mountain division.
the new division made some lit
tie time since the Laramie division
be gins at the east end of the Cheyenne
yard, including it within its jurlsdic-
ton. The yard Is the largest along the
line and the most complicated. 1t has
the indications of growth and increased
complication, and the experience of the
thus far has shown the dispatch
ers unequal to its management at such
long range, but have left the whole or
most of this work TO the dispatchers of
the Mountain division. Another
in locating the divisions or Il
in the location of the division
headquarters must become necessary at
far distant day.
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