, 1891-11-24

Something About Its Location and
Surroundings.
PROSPECTS for Becoming a Good
Glass Manufacturing Center.
Soda Works. Rolling Mill, Shops
and Other Points of Interest.

Wyo., Nov. 2l.-A man
who Is down on the boards to thoroughly
write up the resources OF Wyoming"
can't very well resist saying something
about the second city in the state.
THE GEM CITY s LOCATION.
Just lover the hill" Sc miles west OF
Cheyenne, built on a level plain between
mountains and hills, lies the University
town at an altitude of 1928 feet On
the east the hills (sometimes called the
Black HiIls), are in close proximity to the
town. To the west there are miles OF
level plain before the Ellis are reached.
but in the background the snowy range
of the Medicine Bow mountains, on the
east side of which lies the La Plata min
ing district, and on the west Gold Hill, is
so plainly visible as to be apparently only
ten miles away, though IN reality thirty
five or forty. Dropped into Laramie
from the east one cannot locate the poles
and the sun seems in the wrong place.
The location IL bewildering and a stranger
would never suspect that a river-the Big
Laramie-ran through the suburbs of the
town, and where it comes from or where
it goes to could only be judged by follow
ing the stream and not from the appear
ance Of the surrounding country.
THE CLIMATE.
To one who has travelled much in
the Rocky mountain region-which has
admittedly the best climate in the world
the climate here seems delightful and
unexcelled by any other locality. In fact
it was thought by the writer. before he
became a resident of the other town. that
the air of Laramie was just a trifie sweeter
and purer than that of Cheyenne.
POPULATION AND TRADE.
Liramie's 1000 population are sup
ported in various ways. The macbIpe
shops here employ about $50 men, and
this is the home of a great many railway
conductors, engineers, brakemen and
other railroad people. The rolling mills
employ now about ninety men. and at
times $50 men are on the rolls. Laramie
has soda works, a soap factory, the state
fish hatchery, planning mills, the state
penitentiary. electric lights, water works,
two daily and three weekly papers, and
other institutions which usually accom-
pany a town Of larger SIZE. The mer-
chants enjoy a good ranch trade from
hundreds of ranchmen on the Laramie
plains. in the Black Hills to the north
and east and south as far as North Park,
Colo, to which point goods are freighted
BY country store keepers. Many dollars
are expended here by miners and pros
pectors from the tributary mining districts
Of Douglas creek, Centennial and La Plata.
An institution which brings money 10 the
town and of which not only Laramie but
the whole state should feel proud is the
sTATE UNIVERSITY.
There are about twenty. five students in
attendance at the university. All the
sciences are taught aud practically dem
onstrated. The university building is a
beautiful sandstone structure with all
modern improvements, and cost some 49,
600 or more. Your correspondent, while
waiting to see the secretary the other day,
was surprised when invited into the IL
brary to find there a very interesting and
valuable museum, the best part of which
belongs to Prof.. j. d. Conley, and is val
ued by him at $4,000. Its use is do
mated. A building which was formerly
the Laramie club house is rented and
here students from other towns find a
comfortable home at a cost OF only about
500 a month. Part Of the SAINT building
is used as a military school.
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