, 1891-12-04
PROSPEROUS RAWLINS.
A Growing City with Good Natural
Advantages.
Where There is No Complaint of
Hard Times.
Some Statistics Gathered by a
Leader Correspondent.

OlQ Town II Is mucn ike the new musI-
room town in that 1t is populated by the
energetic of all classes, who come to make
money. Here there are several churches
aud the school facilities are first class.
The most refined and educated can be
found, but the cowboy, the mule skinner
and the gambler are also here. After all
what difference is there between the small
frontier town and the great Eastern city?
There all kinds of people are found. but
here where the 800 souls representing
all classes are so closely associated the
mixture is more noticeable.
WHAT SUPPORTS THE TOWN.
Rswlins, the county seat of Carbon
county, derives its principal support from
the railroad. This is a division station,
being l36 miles from Laramie city and
the same from Green River. 1t is the
home OF the engineers, iremen, brake
men and freight conductors running
either way, and in the shops here $50 or
more men are employed. Another source
of trade is the f~reighters. This is the
Quitting place for Lander. Fort Washakie
and other northern points as we'll as
several small places to the south. Daily
stages leave for the places mentioned and
for Saratoga and Gold Hill The greatest
natural industry in this county is the
sheep industry. 1t has reached such i'm
meuse proportions that the sheepmen
instead OF going TO the buyer say to them:
You must some and see US if you want
our WOOL" 1t IS stored in a large stone
warehouse built for the purpose (about
1000. 900 pounds this year, and here the
buyer may examine and purchase if he de.
sires. As mentioned IN these columns before
the prize fleece of the United States WAS
raised by Robert Taylor of this county. for
whirh he received an elegant gold watch
from the Wool Groloer's Journal of
Boston.
The cattle industry is not dead yet.
More cattle than sheep are raised in
the Upper Platte valley and many beeves
are shipped from here.
Frank A. Hadsell, the present sheriff,
owns one OF the biggest horse ranches in
this part Of the country. He started
with inferior animals. but has improved
his stock and now ships car load after car
respondent has been informed, has made
lots OF money out of the business. But
comparatively few men of Rawlins have
paid any attention TO the breeding OF
extra good horses. R. G. Mayor has a
few good brood mares and has brought
from Iowa a full blooded Clvdo stall
hon colt that is a beauty. Mr.. Willis also
has a few good mares and two thorough
bred stations. One of them, General
Dandy, by Aberdeen, dam Princess Clay
hv American CLAY, was purchased from
WIN Daley for 81, 500. He is 5 years
old. half brother OF the famous Wanita
Beck with of Evanston, who sold him to
Mr.. Daley for 81 900 when a 2-yeAr-old.
With freighters, cattlemen and horse
men making money. sheep growers roll
ing in wealth, several hundred railroad
men drawing big pay every month, money
is plenty in Rawlins and the merchants
have no complaints to make. The town
is not going backward, but on the con-
trary a number of new residences are
noticed, several having been built during
the last summer. An electric light plant
has Just been put in at a cost of SIS, 900
The stockholders are j. G. Davis, }. L.
Osborne, |. G. Miller. G. Z. Dodge and
\. NJ. StarrZell. There are only about
600 lights in use now, but as the APP
proved and the people well pleased, there
certainly will be more.
A FOR CAPITAL.
Rawlins' water supply is partly from an
a~rtesian well owned by the city and partly
from the Union Pacific compauy's well.
The town needs good water works and
there is a chance for capital in that d.
Another opportunity is offered
by the owners OF coal beds near town who
would make a reasonable deal with CAPT
who would work the mines. The
coal mine has been worked for
in a small way by NJ. Dillon and it
has paid. Judge Merrell and others W
eight foot vein four and a half miles
from town and near the Dillon mine,
which ought to be opened. The coal,
while not as good as the Rock Springs
article. is said to be a very economical
coal for general use and would no doubt
pay well to mine.
The most beautiful and best building
10 the country is found three or four
miles from here. 1t is a gray sandstone
which finds a ready market IN Denver,
Salt Lake, Omaha and Cheyenne and the
freight rates seem to have been ~satistac
tory when the quarries were operated.
The trouble is hat a spur from the main
Union Pacific tracks must be built, some
three or four miles in all. To make the
quarries a success needs a company with
capital enough to build the spur.
Although the paint mills once IN oper-
alton at this place burned down and have
never been rebuilt, the Union Pacific COM
pany still continues to ship a great deal of
the ore 10 Denver and Omaha where it Is
ground. 1t is red hemitrte of
IRON and makes the best of paint.
There is plenty of it within a few
miles of town aud it might prove a
bonanza to capitalists who would ~investi-
the possibilities it offers.
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