Weekly Letter from Daily Leader Sparks Western News
In this April item, reports discuss copper as a buoyant market, prairie schooners heading north, and a small recruitment party moving west from Russell. Notes cover mining, railroad plans, a new saw mill for mining camps, cattle ranges, vigilante executions in Pueblo, and various local incidents including a Russian minister's travel and mining assays near Cheyenne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rom Daily Leader
Ward
Hartville
Russell
Laramie
Parsons, Matthews & Smith
New York
The Coal Expedition at Lost Springs Ranch
Editorial correspondence from March 28 details six men occupying an abandoned cabin near the Old Emigrant Trail. The expedition led by Bartlett aimed for coal fields about thirty five miles northwest of a copper camp, but after forty miles they remain far from the fields.
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Lost Springs Ranch
Harry 8
Copper Camp
Bartlett
Xhranch
Shawnee Creek
Hank Harney
J. G. Rieck
Dater Brothers & Harrington
White
Stanton
Allen
Wind Driven Emigrant Party Finds Shelter At XH Ranch
A party traveling to coal fields hunkers down near Shawnee creek when a eight hour wind and sand storm rages across the plains. They enter the XH ranch cabins once they find shelter and set up a bivouac with a stove, water and a simple meal as the storm subsides.
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Cheyenne
Magic City
Military transfers shift quartermaster generals and depots
Quartermaster transfers place Holabird Perry Sawtelle Dana Hodges Batchelder in new commands with duty changes in Washington New York Newport Ky and Arizona as Surgeon Stewards and other station moves are ordered A Washington dispatch notes Crook promotion rumors and a detailed list of hospital steward and enlistment actions from Omaha March 30 1882.
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Quartermaster’s Department of the Army
Samuel B. Holabird
Assssant
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia
A. J. Perry
Governor’s Island
N. Y
Holabird
Washington
Charles G. Sawtelle
Newport
Gen. Perry
James J. Dana
Sawtelle
Henry C. Hodges
Department of Arizona
New York City
R. N. Batchelder
Department of the Columbia
Ingalls
Washington Dispatch
McDowell
Crook
Robert Garrard
Fort Douglas
U. T
Fort Fred
Steele
W. T
N. Gunn
Fort McKinney
W. T. FE
Horton
Quartermaster’s Department
Charles Randolph
Utah
6Th Infantry
the Army
Adjutant General’s Office
George Hmerson
Fifth Cavalry
General Service
J.P. Marin
Adj
New Mineral Discovery Near Laramie River
A new mineral discovery is reported on the Laramie river about fifteen miles from Laramie. The quartz is creamish white and carries gold in paying quantities according to assays of specimens.
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Laramie River
Ort Laramie
Wyoming Stock Growers Meeting Elects Officers and Expands
The Wyoming Stock Growers Association gathered in the court room with 59 members admitted by proxy and 24 present. Officers were elected led by president-elect N. R. Davis, with Thos Sturgis as secretary and A N Rees as treasurer. The body created round-up committees across districts and expanded membership to cover nearly all territory. The meeting approved a secretary report noting 13 stock inspectors and 220,000 cattle inspected, guarding 600,000 head and $15 million in property. $12,480 spent last year. A press representation from Drovers Journal attended.
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Daily Leader
Teller
C. A. Arthur
Platform Club
Utah & Northern Road
A.C. Snyder
East Seventeenth Street
Marshal Carr
Taylor
West Seventeenth Street
Elbert Clark
Louie
England
Baron Streuve
United States
Japan
Washington
Stanton
Territorial
Highland Chief
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Deadwood Times
Sturgis, Goodell & Co
Cheyenne River
A. J. Robertson
Custer
Forsythe
Wyoming Territory
Stock Growers Association of
Thomas Sturgis
Association
J. M. Carey
Foll Ffty
Committee On By-Laws
A.C. Halliwell
Drovers’ Journal
Messrs
Adams
Brown
Davis
Messrs. Rees
Jenkins
Warren
Thos. Sturgis
Sturgis
Lawrence
Sioux Counties
Neb
Sme
Nagle
Reel and Magee
Sweetwater
Tory
Nebraska
Albany County
Thayer, Swan
Wade
Sturgis F. E.warren
Uinta County
Thos, Sturgis
Stock Association
Sioux County
Reel
Ben Morrison
Laramie County
N. R. Davis
A. Gilchrist
A. N. Rees
County Commissioners Hearments and Bridge Bid Awards
The county commissioners held a regular meeting as two administrators were granted tax rebates for erroneous assessments. A vacancy was filled by G. B. Goodell, and W.W. Jeffrey’s deputy assessor oath was approved. Bridge bids were opened, Hen nek e Brothers won the award for Middle Crow creek, and the board adjourned to 9 am. Local business notes include Mr. Dunlap considering Cheyenne residency for the summer shipping season.
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Thos, Swan
N. Robertson
H. B. Kelly
J. K. Jeffrey
W.D. Pease
W. Riner
HE. P. Johnson
Board of Commissioners
A. H. Rees
G. B. Goodell
Chas. Hecht
W.W. Jeffrey
Hugo Donzelman
Eagle’s Nest
Laramie River
Platte Cation
Norman McCuaig
Middle Crow Creek
A. Gilchrist
John Housiaux
J. A. Howard
A. Simmons
Henneke Brothers
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West
Denver
BE. F. Halleck
Union Pacific
Black Hills
Rawhide Buttes
Platte
Wm. T. Phebus
Jay W. McGrew
J. Chastine
P. Berry
Frank Craby
Pueblo
Central Pacific
U.P
Oregon
Utah Northern
Greeley
Salt Lake
Pacific
Denver & South Park
Nebraska & Kansas Lines
Omaha Bee
Avril 4
Charley Herman
Geo. O. Eaton
John Shingle
Col. Hooker
Congress
Moses Thatelier
Utah Northern Road
D. O. Mills
Jacob Outlaw Reid
New York Tribune
Geo. A. Dunlap
Live Stock Commission
Wood Brothers
Chicago
J. R. Withrow
Northwestern Road
Council Bluffs
Billy the Duck
William TeDuc
John N. Wood
John H. Wood & Co
W. C. Brown
Brown, Price & Co
W. M. Darlington
Darlington, March & Co
Geo, Hi, Harper
Rosenbaum, Bass & Co
A. C. Halliwell
the Drover’s Journal
Dr. Pierce
Big Livestock Commission
Mr. Dunlap
E.R. Healy & Sons
Bedford
Iowa
Creston
Union County
David Troup
Mr. Troup
Many A. Troup
Hallett & CO
Portland
Paare
RUE & CO
Augusta
Maine
Western Live Stock Company. (Limited
Indian Creek
Running Water
Baker & Johnson
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