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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1877
Page
14
An early promotional notice offers Commercial Job Printing services with a wide range of products at low prices. It highlights new type and presses and promises neat, cheap, and expeditious work, including cards, billheads, letterheads, blanks, posters, and nose headings.
The speaker asks about a bold staunch man famed by shoe-prints on his paunch and a mourner who views a corpse with tears. The lines evoke a grim scene centered on grief and a peculiar image of footprints on a belly.
Mr Wm Lykins returned from Indian Territory where he aided by Gen Mackenzie and Agent John D Miles secured nineteen horses and ponies from a large herd stolen by Cheyennes. He praised the general and agent for their zeal and assistance.
N R Davis, a prominent Weld County cattle owner living near Cheyenne, Colorado, has doubled his herd tally with 6000 rebrands and plans ship 1600 fat steers this fall. He manages Hayden outfit stock, cares for mules and horses, and is erecting a large new home on his ranch.
The Leader urges readers to send daily news and progress reports. It invites people in cities to visit the office and share any information they have to help keep everyone informed.
Fruit and vegetables are shipped to Denver and Cheyenne daily. Sorghum is growing well in Greeley. Four boot-blacks bound for Deadwood traveled up from Denver last week. Mr. Fundenburg buys buffalo robes in a $1200 deal with Rufus Bennett. A tree laden with ripe apples stands behind Mr. Van Gehren’s house. Trout fishing grows poor in Estes Park though 8. W. Hilton finds trout elsewhere. Mr. Jackson ships a carload of young bulls to Cheyenne and notes Wyoming has bought 100,000 cattle from the Texan drive.
At Sand Creek about ten claims are actively worked though water scarcity hinders sluicing at Potato Gulch. E A Dolan plans a fourteen mile ditch from Little Spearfish to Nigger Till to supply Potato Centennial and Mallory gulches. About one hundred men prospected daily with many rich lodes noted at Nigger Hill and Centennial gulches.
Howard a Colorado granger, left his unhitched bays while bargaining at Simmons home. The team dashed through 17th and 18th streets, turning toward Crow Creek and colliding with a Cheyenne Carriage Works wagon. After the axle was freed, Howard resumed his rounds to secure customers.
The C and B H coach arrived with Superintendent Voorhees Messenger Scott Davis and five passengers. Inside the bedlayed safe held six hundred ounces of gold dust worth about twelve thousand dollars. The iron box, built in Cincinnati, is a 16 by 30 inch salamander with three inch thick sides and a Yale lock. It travels weekly between Cheyenne and Deadwood under escort as needed.
Gayville celebrates progress with many active builders and 15 to 20 structures under way while three occupy completed. A notable loss by J. P. McKinnis is estimated at 5000 dollars. The Indian Office records show the Indian population in the Territories is increasing rather than diminishing.
The LEADER declares it serves Cheyenne and Laramie County as an organ for all, praising good, honest men over party labels. It supports Democratic nominees for Legislature as reputable citizens and urges voters to choose by worth and ability, not party.
Luke Voorhees reports from Deadwood that quartz mills are scarce as ore dumps grow. He notes Keets mine shows four to five ten or fifteen stamp mills at work with three to four thousand tons of ore awaiting crushing and contracts keeping mills busy for months. More one hundred stamp mills are sought to handle the supply.
The Interior Secretary directs clerks from the Land Office or others to visit states and territories affected by timber depredations to collect precise details. They will document the nature extent and amount of depredations, identify perpetrators and dates, and send weekly reports to the Commissioner and Secretary.
Captain Egan of the 2d Cavalry has been notified that his company K will march with the regiment to the Yellowstone country from Medicine Bow on September 5. He left Salt Lake City for Ogden to await his company then go to Tort Steele and later Washington. doctors have not yet issued a health certificate.
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