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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1877
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR yields vague references to city governance, mayoral matters, treasurer, voting, and a March meeting. Some names and figures appear garbled with unclear connections to specific offices or actions.
The notice promotes a large western paper offering low cost commercial printing and advertising. It lists card printing, letterheads, posters, and a new type and presses facility. Rates are shown for various ad types including local notices and transient ads with per line charges and durations.
The piece confirms abundant gold in the Black Hills with 1876 output estimated at a million and a half dollars and notes rich placer and quartz finds near Deadwood and Whitewood creeks. It promotes Cheyenne as the best access point, details rail fares and routes, and previews a forthcoming daily stage line to Custer and Deadwood with first class tickets listed.
A 1877 Wyoming Territory notice lists required equipment for four miners and two teams including flour grain beef beans coffee tea and spice, plus cooking gear and mining tools. It also notes average prices for teams wagons and animals and gives distances from Cheyenne to Dead Wood City with stage-road notes and a legal notice about a divorce case in Laramie County.
Paulina L Percival files in the District Court of the First Judicial District of Wyoming Territory at Laramie county a bill of complaint alleging habitual drunkenness and willful abandonment for over a year and praying for dissolution of marriage. Respondent must answer by May 14, 1877.
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