, 1888-12-29
SOME GOOD NEWS.
Cheyenne TO Have Another Rail-
way Line to Denver.
The Burlington Will Build the
Road Early Next Year.
A Fine Region to Become Tribu-
tary to the Magic City.
Manifold Advantages of a Com
peting Southern Line.

Lucky Cheyenne. fortunate Cheyenne,
~enterprising Cheyenne. Truly she is a
city of destiny. Nothing can destroy her
stability. dull her prospects or lessen her
greatness. She may receive a body blow
from one quarter. but while rallying bless
ings pour in from another. The fates are
with US, and what is now the Magic City
Of the West will some day be the empress
of a great country. Geographical and
typographical location, surroundings and
natural combine to assist in the
upbuilding of a magnificent metropolis.
In years to come her hundreds of church
spires will be obscured from vision by the
gaseous fog from the smokestacks of nu-
merous factories and shops.
This town is about TO receive-and
from an unexpected source-an impetus
which will result in a marvellous growth.
1t will be a boom succeeded by a whole
some cycle of Improvement which will en-
rich many and delight the hearts of all.
The LEADER begs leave to announce that
Cheyenne is to have another direct rail.
way line to Denver and to express the
belief that the road will be completed and
in operation before the summer of 1889
passes away.
The Burlington directors have reached
the conclusion that such a line would pay
and have decided that it shall be con-
structed so soon as possible. There is no
surmising or specializing about this pro
ject. 1t is a settled fact. The two great
western cities OF Denver and Cheyenne
are to be connected by a Burlington
branch. The line will tap a rich and vir-
gin region. The lions share of this new
country will become tributary to the
Wyoming town, for Cheyenne no longer
plays second fiddle to Denver in matters
of this sort. She is second to nc western
town in commercial Importance and enter
prise.
This glorious news was learned late
yesterday and there was but little time to
obtain particulars. However. enough
authentic information was collected to
give a general idea of the plan.
Tracklaying will be commenced at Gro
yer. a p~retentious Cheyenne Il Bur
lington town forty miles southeast of this
city. The route thence will be almost
due south thirty miles to Hudson. u sta
ton on the Burlington & Missouri's Oma-
ha Denver line, thirty-three miles east of
the last named city. There will be a
branch from this new line to Greeley,
which place will be only about fifteen
miles from the nearest point on the Gro
yer Hudson line.
The distance from Cheyenne to Denver
over the new line will be 103 miles-three
miles less than over the Union Pacific.
The road will pass through a splendid
agricultural section, run alongside a noun
tain of fine building stone. and traverse
territory in close proximity to coal beds.
The most persistent and habitual
boomer can scarcely overestimate the BEN
eft to accrue to Cheyenne from this new
feeder. The city's trade with the
south is a pretty plum, and this
will increase it. 1t gives the people an
other express line-the Wells-Fargo-
from that direction. The Denver Pacific
and the new route will compete for traffic
to and from the south. But it is useless
to continue in this strain. 1t Is patent to
every citizen that this move is but another
of a series which will make Cheyenne the
greatest city of the mid West.