, 1886-07-29
About Cheyenne.

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most readable description of the Magic
City OF the West from the pen of a
scholarly and observant correspondent,
who has for several months been a So
%journer in Cheyenne. THE LEADER is
glad to find space for the following ex-
tracts
Abject pauperism is absolutely unknown
here; comparative poverty rare; comforta.
bic circumstances general; while indepen-
dent condition is the rule, and wealth not
a conspicuous exception.
The town site Was selected by one with
an artistic as well as a weather aye. 1t
n~estles in a beautiful basin, a coronet of
grassy knobs forming the rim, which is
supposed to shut out the winds-a bare
presumption. however, for it signally fails
in its assigned Office. Some scientists
hold that these plains were once the bed
of the deep, deep sea. Well if it was,
old Neptune never slept in it peacefully,
for his NEUROLOGICAL contemporary, Eolus
must have troubled the waters terribly and
this particular cradle of the deep rest
lessly, if he rampaged then as he does
now on a ceaseless bender" The same
climatic conditions are here hat bless
Denver. As yet, however, success has
not crowned persistent efforts to reach
the clear, light water that must underlie
this place
There are many beautiful structures
here, mostly private residences; some of
them exquisite in design and finish, some
grotesque rather, and of very composite
and eccentric architecture. And the good
naonla rrhn 1.-Two in th,ea lteatn., ia r.kol,,O
Well they are as various in degrees of
their habitations.
high standing and weighty influence, with
the eternal appending remark: That's a
self made man" One gets sick of it.
The writer had a senior trienl once. a
man who had done much in moulding his
own destiny, but was duly grateful to
Providence for the vouchsaied opportuni
ties, who used to aver that the legend
''qntsqmi sue Jortu0 Gnber' was a fraud
aud delusion, and that he never saw Il self
made man that was not id badly made.
These men here of self structure, ST. styled,
would confound my senior friends theo-
ries, for they and their fortunes are well
and securely made. They are of a lusty,
handsome physique, with a power of en-
durance stamped ON every lineament, and
there is mental muscle in them, too. The
women are as God has made them in most
places on His spherical footstool, fair
some and unfair others, but here mostly
truly womanly. Some of the old Connect
lieut. blue laws spirit has been imported.
English enterprise and Scotch thrift are
a tilt with it for supremacy in
popular favor. The spirit that was so
heroics.lly tried in the unhappy struggle
for Southern independence is in the fight
too. The men who left our battle SCARED
section, where all was ashes and grave
mounds, in 1865, and came to this border
land to seek a new life are few, so far as |
can trace them, but, thank Heavenl they
are forward and fortunate. The simple
story they tell-true on its face-of their
hard travel across the wide plains TO this
Piedmont section of the continent, where
palefaces were few. and fair never a one,
is heroic. Leaving a victorious enemy in
possession OF their native heath, with
their paeans of victory ringing madden
ingly in their ears, they compassed the
weary distance TO find n fiercer foe, more
fertile In strategy, wary and relentless.
| have in mind one, a soldier in Pick
EFT s historic division, who drove a team
from Kansas; was Indian scout and
had n noble brother massacred,
narrowly escaping the same fate; WAS
ceaselessly on picket duty for years, but
stuck it out, and to day has a beautiful
home, reigned over by a young Virginia
lady whom he has had the good taste and
judgment to 90 back and select as his
wife; has a highly improved and extens-
i've ranch AMI range, with his cattle on a
thousand hills"
There is a general air OF healthfulness-
animal, vegetable-and it is very proba-
Bile that the scientific and laborious terri
torial geologist will soon discover vigorous
life in the mineral kingdom. There is
boundless wealth of coal and the baser
metals-low grade-and the refractory
ores of silver aud gold, that arc being
rapidly brought into market by newly in
vented processes of reduction. Business,
banking and commercial, is on solid basis.
Agriculture is showing a well defined de-
velopment. Stock raising is approaching
perfection. Adjacent to this city there is
a Hereford cattle breeding farm, where
some of the bluest blooded and hand
somest bovines in the world are produced.
1t cost a mint Of money to establish and
set this concern in running order, but the
outflow has ceased, and the incoming tide
is laden with shekels 4 Norman Perch
error horse breeding farm is in the near
neighborhood, the largest of its kind on
the continent, with nearly 1000 horses
upon it. many very highly graded. 1t
has twenty five imported stations. 1t is
an assured success. The market for these
young equine giants must be sought il in
the East. They have been reared at less
cost than they could have been any where
in the world. They will command larger
prices in the great cities, as heavy draft
animals, than any others.
There are some tentative essays in the
direction Of raising the trotting and
thoroughbred running horses. promising
good results One sees frequently, on the
exceptionally fine roads hereabouts, well
matched. tastefully harnessed spans of
high steppers. piloted swiftly and skill
fully by gentle ladies'.
The cowboy is here. in his supremacy
and entirety, broad brimmed white felt
hat, with bespangled leather band, high.
pointed heeled top boots. Mexican spurs.
quirt (short loaded whip, etc. mounted
on his ~tireless bioncho. or COW pony, the
ugliest, knowingest little animal in the
world, with more muscle in his saddle
piece. and more pure cussedness and cum
ming in that Roman nosed head of his
than hall a dozen OF his Eastern confreres.
A generous, manly, brave, dare devil ami.
animal ia this same COW boy. Mars and
j. +. b. Stuart what cavalry they
would make, if you could only break them
in. They are a picturesque feature Of the
country. but alas they must soon 60, like
poor Lo, the buffalo. the elk and the an
telore. The tides of civilization are near
meeting from the Atlantic to the Pacific.