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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
13
A damaged OCR fragment mentions figures like 1 000 and 592 600, references to banks in New Orleans and Lafayette, and scattered notes on advertisements. The text is garbled with stray punctuation and appears to include pricing, orders, and health product language, but no coherent event.
Rates for daily and weekly subscriptions are listed with advance payment options and carrier delivery details. Advertising prices vary by length and insertion type, with local notices and official ads charged per line, plus weekly and annual rates for various categories. Address: J. B. Morrow, Publisher and Proprietor, Cheyenne Wyoming.
The coloured label on each paper shows the paid time. After this issue overdue subscriptions will be discontinued. We print the largest weekly in the Rocky Mountain region and require cash in advance on subscriptions.
Bull Lake Tribune reports Thatcher station four miles south of the old site at gage Creek Siding, named for former Utah & Northern superintendent George W. Thatcher. Also notes Armo discontinued and aurora display seen between 1 and 2 AM. Alderman and H Altman buy Buffalo lots and Ms Altman invests in Sheridan real estate.
Reports from Wyoming touch on Elkhorn Idaho mine profits, a Cheyenne street railway venture, and Emerald mine preparations. Updates cover rail car design cautions, land office leadership petitions for E W Mann, and a push to curb cattle thieves with warrants and potential court actions in Powder River country.
The Caldwell Journal reports stockmen in Caldwell Kansas assembled last week representing about 15 million dollars invested in cattle. Liverpool mutton markets show choice long-wooled carcasses at seventeen cents per pound while Merino sheep bring thirteen to fourteen cents. Cattle and horse care notes warn neglecting young horses at winter start harms health due to confinement from free range. Caldwell Journal cites western range reports that grass is good and cattle in better condition than last year, contrary to fears of rotting old grass. North Platte Nebraskian notes very few prairie fires this year, aided by wet fall and early snow, plus railroad precautions, saving property and lives. calls to maintain the good record.
The cattle men of the west are described as on the path to vast wealth as government range grants and natural growth increase their holdings. Railroads have long offered cheap transport, and now a proposed contract aims to break a pool east of the Missouri River by lowering rates for cattle shippers, in exchange for the cattlemen routing livestock over that line.
The Omaha Herald publishes a preview of Platte valley agriculture and a UP land department year end report. J T Allan cites Nebraska as top meat state with grazing in western lands feeding cattle for eastern markets and notes brisk shipments: Pine Bluffs 27000 cattle Ogallala 35360 cattle North Platte 900 cattle 2100 sheep etc. Total fat cattle 8000 east of Plum Creek expected 12000 in 1884. Overall 82788 cattle and 13900 sheep shipped plus horses cattle buffalo elk and varied consignments.
The Omaha Bee notes a prosperous cattle season with higher beef markets. It argues that consolidation of small herds into large companies enables market control, potentially benefiting cattle men and railroads while increasing prices for consumers.
Sutton plans a water works system while Albion sees rising land demand and doubled timber prices. Blair reports potato wagon loads at 25 cents a bushel and Madison area sells a farm for 4000 after buying at 1300 in 1882. Central City area parcels traded, Genoa Indian school expands with a 1600 building, and Dodge county adopts textbooks. Local scuffles include school desegregation protests in Nebraska City and Cass county seat removal petitions from Plattsmouth to Weeping Water.
Cattle trade shows dull high grades but steady medium and low stock with liberal supply. Hogs are abundant with a brisk but weakening price trend, especially on lighter weights. Sheep sell slowly with shrinking prices. English reports note quiet live cattle trade but active, firmer sheep. A teamster named Rodgers killed Williams at St Dennis near Laramie Peak. Rodgers awaits a justice hearing as Williams’s body is moved to the fort.
Red Cliff aims to wipe out debt by year’s start as travel on the Denver Rio Grande rises. Grand Junction’s population nearly quadruples in a year and Mesa County holds about half a million dollars in railroad property. Delta county irrigation plans promise vast new agricultural land. Garfield rebuilds after a devastating fire, and Trinidad News notes a quiet Denver paper night.
A list shows letters at the Cheyenne Wyoming postoffice dated November 27, including GENTLEMEN and LADIES lists with names such as Anderson J Ausburn K Berger B Bunker EC Brown H Barton J Burd J Burnett N K Cortride B Connelly A Clinton Carrier G R Davis J W Fitz J T Flanagan W Ferguson J 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 8 A Wilcox W and others. postmistress noted.
The iron machine, weight under 250 pounds per piece, operates at horse speed and can raise 2 10 pound ore buckets 120 feet per minute. It delivers continuous pumping or blowing without hindering hoisting, carries 600 feet of rope, and two men can install it in half a day. Address Pacific Iron Works and Rankin Brayton & Co for circulars. offices in Chicago New York and San Francisco.
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