, 1888-01-06
A BETTER FEELING.
Much Enthusiasm at a Board of
Trade Meeting.
Satisfied With ths Present, and
JubiIant Over Prospects.
Preparing the Chamber of CON-
merce Report for 1888.


sentative citizens at the board of trade
meeting held at the city hall last evening.
The official call for the gathering informed
members that the annual election of Off
GERS would occur, but on consulting the
bylaws it was discovered that the event
was scheduled one week later. This dis
closure did not prevent those who had
assembled from indulging in an informal
discussion to devise ways and means to
benefit the community, however.
From the sentiments expressed it can
not be gainsayed that a better feeling pre-
walls in local business circles generally than
existed a month ago. Prior to that time
a depression had obtained which augured
gloomily for the immediate future of the
town. OF course all were confident that
car loads of prosperity would arrive in the
spring, but a few croaked and sighed, be-
moaned the condition of the cattle mar
ket and declared that a dolefull, dull. dis
NAL, dolorous and dollarless winter was
Upon us. The business men, those who
would soonest feel the effects of this state of
affairs, gave the lie direct othe statements
of the croakers last evening. In so many
words, a number of them asserted that
the holiday trade had never been better,
that the calm usually following the an
nual jubilee was not so marked as upon
several former years. At this date peo-
gle have again become Sc ttled..an trade
resumed its steady flow. The sales of
Cheyenne merchants to residents along
the line of the Cheyenne & Northern are
increasing daily. Several stores in that
section have been stocked by local whole
sale houses. The fact that this region is
being settled rapidly and the surety that
it will remain tributary to this city, is
most encouraging.
Ex-Governor Warren, j. X. Jeffrey,
T. b. Hicks and many others, spoke upon
the situation, that topic being under dis
c%ussion. All voiced the sentiments ex-
pressed above. Messrs. Warren and
Hicks became retrospective, and alluded
to the depressions which had preceded
the various booms experienced by the
city. When Joslin & Park erected the
place now occupied by Zehner, Buechner
& Co., it was predicted that the firm
would collapse, hat the building of such
a structure in a town with such poor pros
poets was the extremity Of foolish specu-
lation and misguided confidence. Fami-
lies were divided and factions
organized on the advisability
of constructing the unpretentl-
Gus school building which has since been
made one of the largest and best APP
pointed structures of the kind in the
west. 1t had been the same up to the
present time, but the public spirited citi-
zens had insisted that progresslveness was
the forerunuer of success and had won the
day.
The Touring mill project was fully can
vasscd and many good suggestions Of
fered. A special committee consisting of
John Underwood, Frank &. Dana and
E. Maggie was appointed to TO take charge
of this matter. They will doubtlessly be
heard from in a short time.
The preparation of a pamphlet to be
issued under the auspices Of the board of
trade is under way. The work will con
tain pictures Of the principal buildings in
the city, a resume Of its commerce for
the pasi year, figures on the real estate
market and all such matter as is ordinarily
Incorporated in reports issued by similar
organizations.
The fact that the climate of Wyoming
is the healthiest in the United States will
not be overlooked, while the widely disse-
minated yarn that the territory is a YER
liable Sahara will be dispelled by a map
and facts and figures showing hat the
water area Of Wyoming is greater than
that of many commonwealth where farm
ing is the chief industry and that there is
plenty of the fluid for all purposes.
The meeting adjourned until next. Thurs