, 1890-02-20
cnEYENNE,s COMING BOOM.
Reliable Facts of What is Done and
to be Done.
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The Interior Land and Immigration
company will place upon the market
March LIST, the Interior Heights, at Chey-
enne. Wyoming. The engineers are now
engaged in plating 4S0 acres of this
property, and as soon as they complete
their work. grading Of the streets will be-
gin preparatory to the erection of one
hundred dwellings. This property COM
mences about three blocks from the
Union Pacific shops and extends to the
south and west, rising gently until it over
looks the entire city OF Cheyenne. A
contract has been signed for the extension
Of the transit lines Of the city into this
property, and the city council of Chey-
enne ave ordered the extension of their
water pipes into Interior Heights. The
Union Pacific shops which are in process
of erection, will employ $500 men when
completed, which will increase the popu-
lation no less than 1000, and with the
admission of Wyoming to statehood, of
which there is no doubt BY the present
congress, it is safe to estimate that an
additional 10. 900 people will be ADDED to
the Cheyenne population, by reason OF
the admission within the next twelve
months. There is not at present . vacant
house in Cheyenne, and two hundred
houses are needed to supply the demand
that will arise within the next ninety days
for railroad employees that will be brought
from Laramie. North Platte, Grand
Island and Omaha. and it is a low esti-
mate to say that 500 dwellings will be re-
quifed to meet the increasing demand by
the close of the present year. Neat
frame cottages of three to Eve rooms that
will cost, including lots. from 800 to
very best classes of occupants. at from
$40 to $l5 per month. which will pay 4
return upon the investment of not less
than 25 per cent. This demand for
houses is imperative. and there is no bet
ter field for the investment of capital
than in the erection of these cottages to
the number of at least 500 during the
present year.
Interior Heights is the only property
lying south of the depot and contiguous
to the shops that is suitable for such an
enterprise. $1,000. 900 are being ex
pended in the shops at Cheyenne. which
in extent when completed will not be ex
celled by any in the country. and this is
not coniectured but the proof can be seen
BY any one who will examine the public
records of the City of Cheyenne. The
contract between the railroad and Chey-
enne provides for the closing of twenty
nine streets across the network of rail-
roads between North and South Chey-
enne, and the building Of three viaducts
extending not only over the tracks, hut
likewise over the entire space occupied by
the shops In the Same contract, and be-
tore the work in the shops was COM
menced, the city of Cheyenne was re-
CURED to furnish q water supply sufficient
to meet the demands of the railroad shops
and for a city of the population OF 100, 600
inhabitants This has been accomplished,
and Cheyenne to day has . water supply
that FOR purity and abundance is unrivaied
by any Western city. The chambers
from which the water supply is received
are six miles north of the city, and fill a
pipe at the present time three feet in
diameter, and an overflow greatly in ex-
cess of the present demand, is being
turned into several large lakes or reser-
voirs north of the city; and a pipe six
feet in diameter, with a flow tour times
The present flow can be filed from the
present source of supply.
Cheyenne is one of the most beautiful
cities at the eastern base of the Rocky
mountains. 1t contains a large number
Of elegant private residences. and the
capitol building which has Just b.en COM
pleted is a beautiful structure.
No one any longer questions the fact
that Denver IS to become one of the great
cities of the country, and the remark is
often made that Denver is Colorado.
Cheyenne stands to Wyoming as Denver
to Colorado.
They are the towns commencing at the
base of the Rockies which will be and are
now the political capitals, and the center
OF industry and enterprise.
Denver and Cheyenne are each dis
~tinctive centers in its way. Denver is and
will continue to remain the center Of the
great smelling interests of the Rocky
mountains. while Cheyenne will be the
center of the greatest iron mandatory
west of Pittsbnrg.
A limited number of these lots will be
placed upon the market March l at 500
per lot. one half cash and the balance in
six and twelve months to those who will
erect dwellings. The present value of
lots adjoining Interior Heights is 500
each. and It is safe to expect that the
price of these lots will 90 to 5000 before
the close of 1890. April l we. shall fix
our minimum price st 500 and will ad
vance the price at the rate of $40 per lot
every sixty days.
The present population of Cheyenne is
10000 and with the building of the ex-
tensive railroad shops and the admission
of Wyoming to statehood, it is confident
ly expected, and with good reason. that
the present population will be trebled 10 a
single year, and Governor Warren esti-
mates that within FIVE years from this date
Cheyenne will have a population Of l00,-
900 people.
Few people realize the immense under
lying wealth of Wyoming contained in
her oil, iron and coal. Without a doubt
this will be the great future oil field of
the American continent. The Pennsyl-
vania wells are becoming rapidly ex-
hausted and our coal oil capitalists are al
ready securing in quantities the oil lands
of Wyoming. and her deposits of the fin
est Hermairon in the world contiguous to
the immense coal fields is practically incx-
haustible, and Wyoming is as certain to
become to the West what Pennsylvania
has been. and is. to the East; and Chey-
aDne with the iron and coal at her very
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