, 1903-01-15
THURSDAY, JAN. Is, 1903.
U. =. Trains at WalcOtt-
WEST.
EAST.
Editorial Correspondence.


The thermometer was below zero and
we sat the entire journey in speech
less misery, trying simply to keep
life in our bodies until the agony
would end. 1t did end and the
warmth and comfort that greeted us
at Walcott was doubIv grateful
and the refreshing supper placed be
fore us by Landlord Anderson put
life into our bodies and hope in our
hearts.
Walcott is becoming a very m
portant station and employs a good
force of men to handle the business.
The place is not much TO lnok at, but
it does not, in point OF business, have
to dotf its tile TO any place on the
line that boasts of 800 times as many
inhabitants. An interview with
Agent Summons and Cashier Hamil-
ton was prolific of facts and figures
that go further than anything | can
say to establish this assertion.
The cash receipts for 1901 at Wal.
colt were S~63,573.S5. The tonnage
handled that year was not given.
The receipts for 1902 were SIlS,Sl6.-
l6. Add to this S25,O0O.OO AS ticket
sales and you have a grand total of
Sl43,Sl6.l6. That is an increase of
SSO,242.3l over the year 1901. Rath
er a respectable showing As to ton
mage we have: Freight received, as
follows: less than car load lots. H..
566,95l pounds, a load lots 1885,.
600. Freight forwarded, less than
car load lots, 479,95O pounds, car
load lots. 9,04S, 900. This makes a
grand total tonnage of 81 ,sSi,60l
pounds. There were 593 cars of
freight forwarded and 81 cars re-
ceived.
BY far the greater part of this i'm
ems quantity of freight received at
Walcott has gone into the Encamp-
ment country, into the camps sur
rounding tnat town-Pearl, Downing
Apu, ibdlllt, itdllil'l anu lPllIoIs
las Rudefeha, or the Ferris Haggarty
camp is now called.) This speaks
volumes for the mining activity that
is going on in the mountains sur
rounding the Saratoga valley. And
vet the U. p. company says it would
not pay to build a road into that
valley
! found Cheyenne just emerging
from one Of the worst snow Billiards
in its history. From two to three
feet OF snow fell near Christmas.
Then there came Il terrible wind
storm and piled the snow up in huge
drifts, blockading the streets. filling
the alleys and door yards, almost
%suspending traffic. Even now, as |
write, there is a huge pile of frozen
Inter Ocean hotel, four or five feet in
height, the full length Of the block
This is Il sample of the rest of the
town. In the business portion they
have shoyeled the snow into these
huge drifts. that they tell me were
lOfeet high in many places, In more
remote streets they have simply made
"a cut in the drifts in the middle Of
the streets. so they could get through,
The side walks IN the residence por-
ton are-well, barely possible with
the accumulated ice and snow. This
snow will remain here until next
spring,
But, Notwithstanding all this:
Cheyenne is the same smiling hos.
pitable, wide.awake city IA of lore
and nex summer it will be, as II eve
is, the most inviting and hospitable
city in Wyoming. What can be
said of the city is an hundred times
more applicable to its inhabitants.
A great many fine buildings have
been erected here in the past two
years, The Masonic temple, Keefe
Hall, Carnegie Library and Others.
The Government building is well in.
TO the second story, slowly, but sue
ly piling upward into gratiiied and
substantial proportions. 1t will be a
splendid city. The Elks are build.
ing a magnificent home, the walls Of
which are up to the second story. 1t
will be a grand edifce when com.
pleted, II that any town ten times
the size Of Cheyenne, might well he
proud.
The members of the Legislature are
nearly all here, and the Inter Ocean