Year: 1879

branch OF trade we'll represented and
evidently doing good business. l was in
perpetual state of surprise at the fine
stock kept by dealers of all kinds, for
in many instances it was such as one
expects to find only in cities of much
larger growth. One of the jewelers. es-
tablishments is deserving of special
mention-that of Messrs. Joslyn & Park.
They make speciality of the fine stones
which are found in these, mountains and
employ skillful lapidaries to work them.
The moss agates are my favorites of all
the varieties, which include garnet, to-
paz. opal, amethyst, onyx and jasper.
Then they exhibit petrifed wood and
shells, cut and polished until they are
as beautiful as they are odd. They also
showed me a chain MANUFACTURED for a
Black Hill miner frum gold taken by
himself 1t looked to me like new
sort of chain with which to fasten
mad dog, but very poor ornament for
a man to carry about unless he expects
to pay extra on his baggage. Itcontains
seven hundred dollars worth of pure
metal, with sufficient copper to work it,
and has two hundred dollars worth of
labor expended upon it.


The Jail and court house of this "mag-
ic city, are fine brick buildings, which
if put beside those in your city, would
make the latter look as antiquated as
my wedding gown. The religious de-
nominations are we'll represented, and
their Congregationalists, Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, Methodists and Catholics
have commodious houses of worship.


| wonder, sometimes, where all the
printers 60 to when they die. Here in
Cheyenne there are three daily papers
and all seem to be fairly supported. The
offices are we'll equipped with good
presses and plenty of type, and the pub
! fishers all look so comfortable am sure
they are well fed. But then they ought
to be. There is no such beef in the
world as that grown right about Chey-
enne, and the sweet, rich, juicy steaks
are enough to tempt man to postpone
suicide long enough to enable him to
eat one; and then, if were he. | would
do as Rip Van Winkle did with his
toddies-I wouldn't "count that one, !"
but would wait for another. | smack
my lips in anticipation of some | mean
to get one of these days when l again
60 rowing.


But these newspapers are we'll sup
ported. The subscription lists are good.
yhe business man not only advertise
literally but they pay for their work
not in stuff one can neither eat, drink,
wear or give away, but in that with
which the printer can pay his printers
bills-good hard cash.


Newspapers can never succeed when
schools are a failure, and on the other
hand if there is the public spirit to sup
port good schools there is also present
the intelligence which creates demand
for newspapers, and Cheyenne can take
a place in the advance guard in the
matter of public schools, for there
are none better east or west. Energetic,
far-seeing men held the reins in the ex-
ecutiye department of this little city
when the question of public school came
up; men who did not consider education
a "Luratry" but rather safeguard for
the community men who preferred to
pay taxes to educate the children of the
poor emigrants rather than, little later,
pay heavier taxes to punish them for
crime; men who believed it better to
train all children, rich and poor alike,
to understand the principles of govern
ment, so that when they shall arrive at
the place where they may claim the
right to vote, they will be able to act
intelligently, and not follow blindly
where another leads.


The school buildings are of brick,
surrounded by large grounds for recrea.
tion. | visited each of the seven de
partments, commencing in the primary
where little eight years old boys and
girls are taught grammar, arithmetic
and geography, orally, along with theil
primer lessons, and never know they
have been puzzling their little brains
over those things until they come tc
wonder at the ease with which they ac
quire them after they are promoted ant
the text books placed in their hands.


1t is a regular graduation from tb,
primary to the principal S room, and tn
training is very thorough. Every stel
in the higher branches is carefully
watched to make sure that the founda
ton stones have been carefully laid


that there is no week pillar in the men
tai structure which is liable to fall whe
the work is thoroughly tested.


Good prices are paid for teachers an
faithful service required so that tn
annual expense of $4,000 for school
J is by all considered money we'll invested
and sure to return interest their com
pounded when those who are now chill
dren become the men and women of tn