, 1888-02-08
DIR. GARRARD ON CHEYENNE.
How lie Lighted Gas with His Finger
Tips and Experienced Electric
Shocks.

lulam VI. Uarraru, cheyenne, wye.
is at the Lacledc. Mr.. Garrard's head
and face bear a strong resemblance to
those of the late Henry Ward Beecher,
being full and round, the features very
regular and smooth, the forehead high,
the nose keen and of the Grecian order,
the hair long and white and the express
sion that of a genial, buoyant nature. He
said: Cheyenne well deserves the name
Of Magic city, by which she is now des-
lgnated by the people of the West. We
have four railroads, the Union Pacific,
the Denver Pacific and the Cheyenne &
Northern and the Cheyenne & Burling-
ton. The capitol is there and is just now
being completed; then we have water
works, street cars, fine hetels and i'm
mense manufacturing establishments, and,
in fact, what was forty years ago the heart
Of a barren waste is to day one of the
most promising towns in the West. Our
streets are kept in a way that would be a
model to any city and there are resi-
dences there that would be a credit to any
street in Boston, New York or Philadel-
phia, Then the vegetables grow so well
there that | haye often seen Irish pota-
toes which weighed four and half pounds
and they arc as good as any | ever ate in
Kentucky or Illinois.
The failure of the Swan Cattle COM
pany and of NJ. L. Post & Co., bankers,
has given us a little setback, but We are
about past that again. That is a fine
stock raising country, and Post & Co.
owned the Post Percheron ranch, on
which they had about 1000 mares, all of
fine blood. This is about fourteen miles
from Cheyenne. The Swan Cattle COM
pany had a ranch about four miles from
town on which we're 400 Hereford cattle,
all registered. The interests of Wyoming
are so various and productive of wealth
that there is no question in my mind but
it will one day-and that not far in the
future-be the greatest and wealthiest
commonwealth in the entire West. DR..
Ricketts,, our territorial geologist, is an
enthusiast on the resources of the terri
tory. To say nothing of the mining, ag-
ricultural or timber interests, all of which
are great, the territory contains more
natural oil than all of Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Virginia put together. There are
companies who have men prospecting all
over the territory, and the Wyoming
Central andCheyenne & Northern railroads
will reach these oil fields this winter.
Cheyenne is the headquarters for cattle
raisors throughout the West, and some of
them live there in palaces, and up to
three years ago the people of that town
were the richest per capita of any people
on earth. Things are changing now and
the hard winters to the north of us kill
many of the cattle, and then the compe-
tition is so keen that cattle raising
does not pay rs it did ten and
twenty years ago. The men will now
begin to build sheds for their cattle dur
ing the winter. They have already begun
to raise hay or alfalfa by irrigation, the
soil producing three and four tons to the
acre. Then the rainfall is undoubtedly
being increased by agriculture, the up
turned soil acting as a kind of superin-
Queer of rain. There is a popularity
about the winter winds that affects one
very p%recephbly at first. The constant
and high winds for the winter months
coming over the mountains become load
ed with electricity and the atmosphere is
so charged that it acts as a stimulant on
the system for a while and then the reac-
ton produces an unpleasant result. l
have often lighted the gas with my fore
finger, and last winter when l babe some
young ladies good-by, on taking my de-
parture for Kentucky, the shaking of
hands actually produced a shock that was
painful. The winds were not so high this
winter, and the electricity was not SO no
ticeable. The government donated a
large piece of land for the state university
which has been built at Laramie City and
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