, 1888-03-27
TILE WAY Is OPENING.

Western and Southwestern Nebraska
and Northern Colorado are being brought
into much more intimate relations with
Cheyenne and Wyoming by the building
of the Cheyenne & Burlington road. The
interest felt in those sections regarding
this portion of the country is very keen
and the people are evidently looking for
ward to this point to provide them with a
very desirable market for the sale of their
surplus products. Superintendent Phe-
Ian of the Burlington says that settlers are
coming in very rapidly thirty or forty
miles east of Cheyenne, aud he looks for
a wonderfully increased population there
by next fall. One drawback heretofore to
Cheyense has existed in the fact that the
population has been so very small in all
the country tributary to it. During the
flush DAYS of the cattle business the need
of tributary territory was not even felt,
but now when things are getting down to
a basis of steady, permanent growth,
Cheyenne aspires to something beyond
being the metropolis of a single industry.
With the heavy influx of settlers during
the coming summer, the speedy settle
ment of all the surrounding country and
with new and rapidly lengthening lines of
railway to the south, east and north, las the
chief town of this region we will soon
have a large scope of country thickly pop
ulated which will find here its natural
market.
The effect of the building OF new lines
of road is already apparent in the news
paper business and must soon be in
other directions. A few months ago peo-
pie living along the present line of the
Cheyenne & Northern were well con
tented with tie weekly papers. Like
fresh blood infused IN the human system
the railway artery has put vitality into
the section through which it passes; in
stead of widely scattered ranch houses,
such as prevailed only a few years ago,
we have now little towns, some of which
are destined to grow surprisingly. West
ern people are notably progressive and
none of them are content with staler news
that t~ownspeople receive. when they can
can possibly arrange to get 1t. The re-
suit is hat THE DAILY LEADERS, list of
patrons in this newly opened section is
reaching proportions that really surprise
us. Even along the line of the Wyming
Central the people are eager to get a pa
per which contains the associated press
dispatches and the territorial and capital
news on the day that it is published rather
than to wait a day longer for larger papers
published farther east. This is particu-
larly true of Douglas, where our energetic
agent, Postmaster McReynolds, is boom
ing things with a great deal OF gusto, even
though the mail facilities are, as yet, by
no means what they should be.
The rapidly settling country on all sides
Of Cheyenne should not be lost sight of
by the business men here. They have
the opportunity of rapidly increasing their
trade and they should not let the chance
go unimproved. We are assured this
season of some important manufactur-
ing Industries. In addition every
influence should be brought to
bear on the extension of the Cheyenne &
Northern and the Cheyenne & Burling,
ton. There are neighbors north who are
anxious to be brought into closer relations
with us, and the extension will benefit
them, the railroad, and the people of
Eheyanne