, 1889-01-20
REAFF!RMED.
Good News About the Union Pacific
Shops Reiterated.
Work Will Be Commenced the
Present Week.
The Chief Engineer Will Soon Be
On the Ground.
Best Men Chosen to Superintend
the Wcrk.
COLD FACTS.

Engineer j. A. johnson at Pocatello an
offer of 81 800 a year to take charge OF
certain work in connection with the con-
struction of OF large Union Pacific shops
and a general supply depot at this
point.
Some day this week Chief Engineer
Bogue, General Master Mechanic Cush-
ing, and Architect Lush, who is superin-
tending the construction of the Union
depot at Ogden, will meet in this city and
personally superintend preliminary ar
rangements for the Inauguration of work
on the extensive Union Pacific shops and
general supply depot to be built immedi-
ately at this point.
A private message received here yes
terday reafirmed the good news to the
effect that the Union Pacific officials who
are highest in power had authorized the
signing ofthe shop contract with the
City OF Cheyenne, and stated positively
that work would mmenc at once.
LET THERE BE JOY.
The three foregoing paragraphs contain
solid facts, i~ndisputable facts, cold facts,
facts hat cannot be gainsaid or contro-
verted, facts hat mean much to Chey-
enne.
To the true Cheyenneite to days church
bells peal forth 10y and gladness mingled
with gratitude. For have we not been
born again? The Magic City of the
Plains is to become the giant metropolis
of the mid Vest. Nesting at the base of
the majestic foothills of the Rockies,
booming, moving, growing, busting, she
is ripe to receive the homage of her older
but less fortunate sisters.
BOOM, BOOM, BooM.
Every real estate Office in town was
crowded, jammed last evening. In many
the activity forcibly reminded one of a
scene in the pit OF a stock exchange.
Lots, blocks, acres were bought, sold. re-
purchased and again disposed of, and the
last man to buy considered himself more
fortunate than all of his fellows. Val
ues, like cereals" he said, grow right
through the Sabbath day" For the first
time since the boom there was a move
ment in business property, but outside
holdings were the favorites by a safe lead.
At the theater men made bargains be-
tween acts and the ladies' lost their sym
pathy for the unfortunate heroine in dis
cnssing the business situation.
BOOM was in the air. Everyone had
the fever. The buyers in the swim were
in the majority, but seemed to experience
no difficulty in finding something in which
to invest. There was no bluffing or In
dian trading either. Every deal was
closed at once with a. shining $40 gold
piece, a crisp $50 note or an imposing
looking big g bill as a clincher.
The change in ownership of one subur-
ban block will serve as a type OF the
brisk trading. just before supper it was
sold for $500 or 800 a lot. AT I o'clock
it brought 81 900. At s it. was
sold Tor 81, 800 and after con-
sidering several propositions the
81, 800 buyer let loose for an even
$1,000. As the big bass drum remarks
on the Fourth OF July it was BOOM,
BOOM, BOOM. Saturday night mar.
keters leaned over counters and talked
real estate, while the clerks did the weigh
ing. Telephone wires sagged under the
weight of messages. and GRAND boys col
lided with rushing citizens on ever block
Of pavement.
ALL ARR EXCITED.
A LEADER reporter attempted to inter-
view citizens In the maelstorm of human
ity about the realty offices, but found
them too busy making money to say any
thing except that Cheyenne was all right.
The more conservative citizens who let
the market severely alone were just as
bad. The entire population was in a
state attandant upon the spontaneous
ebulition of genuine joy. All were happy
beyond measure. ~
THE FUTURE
1t doesn't require a seer to gaze into
the future at this stage. 1t is an assured
ly glorious one. Within twenty days va
cant houses and stores will be in great
demand. Within ninety days a building
boom with two big BIS will set in and con.
tinue indefinitely.
The shops will be followed by manu-
ia turing plants and everyone will dance
to the music of the machinery.
Nothing In IL.
Laramie Boomerang.l
There il M foundation whatnvcr for