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Cheyenne Weekly Leader

Location

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1882

Page

7

Cheyenne Booms Amid Building Rush and Local Happenings

The Cheyenne area buzzes with construction as the opera house debt is cleared and new parsonage and storefronts rise. Brick work begins on the Atlas block, stone comes from nearby quarry, water pipes arrive, and the city debates rail, real estate, and mining prospects while plans for a Wyoming press meeting form.

Cheyenne Aib Father Hays Sixteenth Street Hellman Masten Ferguson Sixteenth Streets Atlas Block Presbyterian Church Warren Phoenix Block Sixteenth and Hill Street Seventeenth Street L. Voorhees Ferguson Street Horrie Ransome Eighteenth Streets Hill E. R. Hurd Walter Brown Col. Babbit East Seventeenth Street J. W. Hammond Carey G. A. Searight Gov. Hoyt Searight Carr Albright & Jones Barbers A. H. Swan H. G. Hay J.S. Taylor E. Warren

Sad and Romantic Sights in City Newsroom Life

A columnist recalls a night of fragments from the city about a stabbing in a dark alley and a deadly emigration tale. The narrative threads include a wounded Black man in a dim cabin, a trampling accident that ends in amputation and death, and a Chinese widow travelling west with mournful farewells as the funeral train moves on.

China Astahi

Stamp mill at Cummins City to start up soon

The new stamp mill at Cummins City will start up within ten days. Reports from Reno senator C. C. Powning indicate he plans to launch an evening newspaper in Salt Lake City.

Cummins City C. C. Powning Reno Nevada Salt Lake

Tre Vecious Booty At Cooke City Mines Near Wyoming Border

Lieut. Geo O Eaton arrived from Cooke City Montana with gold bearing rock specimens. Prospecting expands as three silver rich claims Black Warrior War Eagle Great Republic bring hopes of near rich loads and a Wyoming boundary mining boom develops. Eaton runs a general assay office at Cooke City.

Lieut Geo. O. Eaton Cooke City Montana Clark’s Fork Yellowstone Lieut. Eaton Cook City Wyoming Eaton

Notable improvements and mining camp growth described

The district reports $150,000 in copper developments with many buildings in Cheyenne area underway. New houses, brick additions, blocks and groves of trees appear as streets like Eighteenth and Sixteenth gain commerce. Visitors, miners and journalists converge, a water spout spooks residents, and Col. Babbitt expands camp prospects toward a major copper hub west of the Mississippi.

Kidney Wort Promises and Dental Remedy Ad

An anecdote touts Kidney Wort as a cure for kidney and stomach related ailments with a claimant stating it saved his life. The advertisement claims the remedy removes the disease cause and offers liquid or dry forms as effective. It also promotes Am Cultivator toothpaste for teeth, sold by Dare & Collins at 2360tf.

Belle of Wyoming highlighted among Hartville notes

Among recent rich discoveries the Belle of Wyoming is featured as the greatest find. A fine body of copper ore carbonate is exposed under cap rock for about 100 yards. Mining properties in Hartville and Muskrat have been disposed of on short bonds in the past week.

Wyoming Hartville Muskrat

Free cure letter promises remedies for youth errors

A misprinted ad offers a free discredited cure for nervous weakness and early decay. It claims a missionary in South America discovered the remedy and asks readers to send a self addressed envelope to Joseph T. Inman in New York City.

South America Rey Joseph T. Inman New York City Pond P. O Powd's Extract CO W. 14Th St New York

Brown's Bronchial Tracheas and Relieved Throat Ailments

A vintage notice touts Brown's Bronchial Tracheas as direct on inflamed throat parts and relief for asthma bronchitis coughs catarrh and throat troubles of singers and speakers. It claims thirty years of physician recommendations and wide use with a price of 2 cents a box.

Brown

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