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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
1
The readable text suggests a jumble of advertisements and claims about cures, payments, and orders. It mentions banks in New Orleans and varying sums, a mail process, and references to medical remedies and age related concerns, all in a loosely connected, incomplete fragment.
The notice lists subscription costs for daily and weekly papers with advance payments and carrier options, and outlines advertising rates for daily and weekly editions. It names J. B. Morrow as publisher in Cheyenne Wyoming and specifies line-based pricing for various insertion periods.
The colored label shows the time paid. After this issue subscriptions overdue will be discontinued. We are printing the largest weekly in the Rocky Mountain region and must have cash in advance on subscriptions.
Bull Lake Tribune reports a new Thatcher station four miles south of the old site at gage Creek Siding, named for former Utah & Northern superintendent George W. Thatcher. The Daily Leader notes telegraph dispatches now filed by standard time and buffalo real estate moves in Buffalo and Sheridan.
Reports from Wyoming and Idaho cover Elkhorn mine October profits totaling 52 000 ore value with 44 000 net after 8 000 costs. Orin B Mitcham named chief ordnance officer. Cheyenne to build a street railway. Emerald copper mine shaft house finished. Crow Creek ranch improvements planned. Mann petition for land office register reappointment. Stockgrowers move to arrest ten Powder river cattle thieves amid looming Johnson county court term and possible lynching threats.
The Caldwell Kansas Journal cites stockmen in Caldwell reporting 15 million dollars invested in cattle last week. Liverpool market sees choice long-wool carcasses at seventeen cents per pound and Merino at thirteen to fourteen cents. Young horses suffer if not exercised early in winter and confinement from free range damages condition. Caldwell reports Western range grass in good condition and cattle in better health than last year, despite fears of rotten old grass. North Platte Nebraskian notes unusually few prairie fires this year due to wet fall and snow, plus railroad protection, saving property and lives. urge continued vigilance.
The cattle men of the west are poised to become great wealth princes as government ranges boost their holdings. Railroads have aided their rise by keeping transport rates low, making Colorado cattle affordable in New York. Now a contract to break a railroad pool east of the Missouri river could lower rates further, while cattlemen pledge to ship all livestock on that line, shifting influence in the business world.
The Omaha Herald presents a detailed account of Platte valley cattle and sheep shipments for the season as Nebraska positions itself as a top meat producer. Figures show 82,788 cattle and 13,900 sheep shipped from stations east of Plum Creek, with major consignments from Pine Bluffs Ogallala North Platte Plum Creek Brady Island O Fallon Kearney and broader regional totals.
The cattle men report a very prosperous season with beef markets higher than ever and shipments carefully regulated to avoid market flood. They note consolidation of small herds into large companies, enabling price influence, which may raise costs for consumers as cattle kings contend with railroad power.
Sutton proposes a water works system while Albion sees land seekers pack hotels. Crete merchants gas, wood prices soar at Albion, Blair potatoes sell 25 cents a bushel. Land sales near Table Rock and Central City, diphtheria hits Nebraska City schools, and a Madison farm pivots 1300 to 4000 dollars.
Cattle trends show dull high grade and steady mid to low grade amid ample stock. Hogs are heavily supplied with a brisk trade but prices weaken mainly on lighter lots. Sheep show uniformly dull sale and falling prices. English reports say U S live cattle trade quiet while sheep rise modestly. A Teamster Disemboweled in Wyoming after a quarrel ends in Williams’s death. Rodgers held for hearing as soldiers recover the body and transport it to fort.
Notes from various Colorado communities report Red Cliff debt relief, rising rail travel on the Denver and Rio Grande, Grand Junction population near quadruple growth, and half a million dollars of railroad property in Mesa County. Lake City may see Rio Grande cars next spring. Delta county Irrigation plans could make Delta the state’s largest agricultural county. Garfield rebuilds after a major fire. The Canon City Gazette begins semi weekly publication. Trinidad News quips about absence of murder coverage in Denver papers.
The November 27 Gentlemens List shows names including Anderson L, Anderson J, Ausburn K, Berger B, Bunker EC, Brown F, Barton H, Burd J, Burnett J, Boswell N, Cortride B, Connelly A, Clinton C, Carrier G R, Davis J W, Fitz J T, Flanagan P, Ferguson W, Gargan J, Goncaburs Gifford WS, Hamilton J H, Harwood J W, House J A, Johnson Parks N H, Smith A L, Morton A, Strange G F, White, A Wilcox W. Ladies List includes Brown E, Brown L, Garrett T, Biel in K AN Curtine A, Sweem A, Mebire B, Ma.3, 5 R. Johnyson, Postmistress.
An iron built horse powered hoist and pump unit designed for prospectors and mining camps. It weighs under 250 pounds per piece and can lift 2 10 pound ore buckets 120 feet per minute with a 600 foot rope drum. Two men can erect it in half a day, adaptable for mining and other animal powered tasks. Pacific Iron Works, Rankin Brayton Co. offices listed with supervisors in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York.
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