The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-02
From A Lady Correspondent.

by the wayside," as / rambled
around, But the intense heat to
which | have been for years unac-
customed has given me such a
feeling of lassitude perhaps lazi-
ness would be the better word
that l have neglected all cores
pondence. My most exalted idea
of comfort and happiness now, is
o comfortable couch under a can
opy of net, a good book and with
IN easy reach of a fan, or a ham
mock suspended in the shade.
And in some such place l am in
variably found by old friends, in
their calls of welcome.
lfIhad commenced writing you
at the beginning of my journey, |
would have told you that from
Council Bluffs to the Atlantic
coast the atmosphere was fairly
blue with the dampness offarmers
spirits and full ofanathemas heap
ed by these poor unfortunates on
the clerk of the weather for his ex-
IRENE generosity during the entire
season IN giving such a superfiu-
ity Of rain. Rain? why you know
nothing about it. Without exag-
geration / do not think | have seer
more than a half dozen pleasant
days in the last five weeks. If [
had passed over the same roads
during the months of June and
July, instead Of July and August,
| would have considered the pros
poets for an abundent harvest
very promising. Acres and hun
dreds, even thousands, of acres of
the most beautiful corn, but, so late
that nothing but a miracle will
save it from the cutting nips of
frost. Fruit there is none, or so
little that the crop is called moth
ing. Just now we are feasting on
Maryland and Delaware peaches
and berries and last but not least,
most delicious melons, beautifully
cool. On my journey, hither, L
passed through Grinnel Iowa,
and the path of the cyclone was
pointed out to me, that is as much
of it as a be seen from the cars.
How very rapidly places and
people recover from such disas-
tiers seemingly at least. l looked
with all my eyes but could not
discern M single trace ofthat fear
full time, and this only within a
few short weeks. 1t is exactly a
decade since [ visited these famil-
lar hills, the scenes of my early
childhood, | can scarcely realize
the change. OF course it is no more
wonderful then the changes in
western towns, but through the
medium of large finds of oil it is
quite al much so, Salamanca the
terminus of several R.R. has grown
from a mere hamlet to a city
of goodly proportions, 1t boasts
of opera houses churches and hotels
without number, very fine stores
and superb residences. 1t is situat-
ed on the ALCHEMY River, which
only a few years ago was a clear,
stony bottomed, lovely stream, but
is now almost one of kerosene,
so fully is it impregnated with oil.
The city also smells strongly of its
odor, but this is all lost upon the
inhabitants on account of the vast
amount of money made in hand
ling it. Verify money doth also
sweeten an immensely of bad odor.
The City is built on the Seneca
Indian Reservation, secured to it
on a 90 years lease. | wish | had
time and space and inclination to
write you of themeeting at beauti-
full Chautauqua only a few miles
from the old home. The assem-
bly, this year was greater than for
years, and very satisfactory.
Wherever you move here you
see every one so interested in the
courses of the G. S. S. and the
good it is doing is unprecedented.
You cannot imagine mn won
derment at the sight of countless
tanks, perfectly immense, some
VI tuclIl DullJ Ou Tie sulllIlllIs Oh
high hills. | tried to count them
as we sped along, but after get
ting above a hundred l gave it up
and will let you imagine their
number and magnitude. Each is
said to hold 100000 barrels of
crude oil, and some of them much
more, and this is all taken from
wells in Western New York and
Northern Pennsylvania. The
wells at Bradford and Limestone
that for several years have been
in their prime are now beginning
to fail and the oil to depreciate in
value on account of new and very
extensive oil regions recently dis
covered further down the river at
Kinsu. The excitement is quite
as intense as it is in mining re-
gions where they strike a bonan-
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