, 1891-04-28
A LIVELY TOWN.
RawIins the Quitting Point for
the Mines.
Real Estate Sales Increasing and
General Business Improving.
A Handsome Ball and Banquet
Given on Friday Night.

town in which a good business can be
done. Ewes the newspaper reporter cul
tivates the acquaintance of the wide
awake inhabitants of live town. A man
may stay in Rawlins a day or two, and
though his eyes be blown full OF dirt, 20
away without abusing the town. This
place has more the appearance of an old
fashioned Quitting point than any other
own in the state. There is no man for
breakfast, and in two days spent here the
writer has not heard the click of spurs on
the sidewalk nor seen a pair of chaps
buckskin breeches or a six shooter.
There is a time for everything" how.
ever, and these things can probably be
seen in season" The six-horse coach
and six, eight and ten horses drawing
three big freight wagons coupled to-
gether. can be seen now and remind one
Of the early days. There is more Gold
Hill talk and more excitement in RaElIns
now than there has been heretofore con
corning the new camp. Everything looks
favorable Tor a prosperous and lively sea-
son. The Rawlins Board of Trade is
composed of good material and the forty
four members seem 10 understand the
situation aud are determined that the
town shall lose nothing from inactivity on
their part.
The board recently appointed commit
tees to write articles Tor a pamphlet des-
c%riDtive OF Rnwlins aud Carbon county.
The different committees include every
thing from mining aud stock raising to
education and religious advantages. Re
ports were made to the board at its meet
ing Yesterday aud the pamphlet will be
issued in about two weeks.
The committee on volume OF business
transacted annually reported hat during
1890 the First National bank handled S.
OOO, 900; hat $500 900 worth OF groceries,
100000 worth of dry goods and 800, 900
worth OF hardware was sold. AS the COM
mittee failed to rep Irt hbw much whisky
was sold it may be inferred than only
water is drank. At the meeting yester-
my hAAN AHANNN NNlt NlNaNtu Win III
structions 10 incorporate within forty
eight hours, money to perfect and com
plcte the Rawlins, Saratoga and Gold Hill
road, one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars was raised IN FIVE minutes, One of
the ways the business men of Rawlins
have adopted of advertising the place is
a card printed on their envelopes like this:
RAwLTNs, WYOMING.
The capital OF Carbon county, is the gate
way to Gold Hill, the greatest gold camp
OF the century. BE sure your tickets
read via Rawlins. Large stores, hotels.
restaurants, Everything for miners out
fit kept and sold at bedrock prices. Only
daily stage line into the camp leaves the
Union Pacific railway at Rawlius, Wyom-
ing,
Following are some figures obtained
from the records Of the county clerks
office, which show something of the in
crease in realty transactions since April
LIST. Only a small part of the mining
transfers are shown. For instance, a deed
has been recorded transferring a one
ninth interest in the Jack Pine lode at
Gold Hill to D. W. Gill of Cheyenne.
Five other one-Hiuth interests in the same
lode we're sold at the same time. but the
deeds have lot been recorded. Mr.. Gill
Is the only Cheyenne man whose name ap-
pears on the county records, and the name
of only one Laramie man was noticed,
However, the writer knows of at least
ten { heyenne men who have bought Gold
Hill property and OF deeds to Carbon
county real estate which have not been
recorded, while Laramie boasts of having
invested more than any other town in
Gold Hill. Thus, while the figures below
give an idea of the activity in Carbon
county realty and mining property, they
are not complete. The non record of
deeds shows either ignorance or careless
ness on the part OF the buyers, as a deed
is Of no value unless recorded.
April 4. Gold Hill mining property.
$3.50 Saratoga realty, 81 900.
April G Gold Hill mining property
81.
April ! Saratoga ranch property,
81 600; ditch, 500,
April s. Lands, Fort Halleck, $4,000;
SARATOGA realty, $50
April 10. Saratoga realty, 81, 900;
Snake river land, $500
April 10, Rattlesuake creek water.
$500 Gold Hill mining property, $500.
April Is. Gold Hill mining property,
5000.
April 16. Lands, eastern part of
county, 1888.
April II. Saratoga realty, $3.50.
April Is. Gold Hill mining property.
5000; lots in Rawlius, 1915.
April 20. Gold Hill mining property,
April 81. Land near Carbon. $500,
April -. Gold Hill mining property,
500.
April %. Lot in Saratoga, $50; and
the same lot the same day. $3.50.
April "a. Lots IN Rawlins, Sl,l50.
April %. Lots in Rawlins, 81 ,625; lot
IN Saratoga, 5000; and lands in eastern
part of county, SIS, 700.
The total number of location notices
and quit-claim deeds of Gold Hill prop
erty recorded since January LIST is ll2.
The county clerk has filed since April LIST
eighty-three instruments.
Your correspondents understands there
are several instruments which will be filed
Tor record in a lew days, conveying
mining property and real estate, IN which
the considerations will amount to almost
$4,000,
Four Gold Hill boys came down on Sat