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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1877
Page
5
The paper advertises being a large western publication issued weekly on Thursdays with subscription terms. It highlights commercial job printing from cards to posters, boasting a new type and presses for handsome work at low prices.
The Galena smelter will run in ten days at twenty tons per day. Pinney Lorton Wilkinson stamp mill near Galena active for ten days. A P Moore Co 25 stamp mill at Central City to operate in about two weeks on Keetsore. Rich ore finds at Father DeSmet mine yield 3500 dollars from 100 tons. New camp Silver City seven miles NW of Deadwood. Guayville hill yields up to 50 dollars per pan. Oats atop Dunlay's ranch reach four and a half feet. A hidden lake atop peak near Deadwood charms visitors with cold clear water and fish. Trade and construction in Gayville rise as Gold Hill area booms.
Colonel P F Barr and his surveying party reach the Black Hills area encamping near the city. They report a central line through the hills emerging at Spearfish Canyon. The 18 mile gorge is 1200 to 1500 feet deep with sheer walls and timbered sides. Weather may delay completion this fall but work will continue when possible.
A Union Pacific line wreck near Snow Shed No 10 west of the city killed watchman I. Cooper after he drank and slept on the track. An eastbound freight severed his body in a grisly accident. an inquest at Sherman returned a verdict in line with the injuries described. Ten thousand envelopes cheap for cash at the Leader office.
A St. Louis gentleman alleges that at least two participants in the recent Union Pacific train robbery were James brothers, with speculation about John Garrett and Joe Lee as possible accomplices. He describes gang methods, local movements since the war, and notes seven-figure potential from mining profits in 1878, including gold yields and a planned Deadwood Central City railroad.
Report notes manager Jake Markel faced heavy losses on a contract involving catering to Sioux chiefs aboard the Rock Island dining car. The tally includes 388 eggs, 42 pounds of fish, 74 pounds of steak, 6 gallons of coffee for 25 people, with many entrees mentioned, implying significant waste on the trip.
Rev H S Myrick chaplain at Laramie City Penitentiary appeals to The Leader readers to donate old newspapers magazines and books for prisoners. Rector F W Tomkins Jr asks interested citizens to send readings to St Marks Episcopal rectory for forwarding.
Local mining interest quotes a Deadwood resident with great experience predicting rapid stamp mill expansion. He notes 335 stamps active, 65 more being erected, and 165 en route, with optimism for 1000 to 2000 stamps within eight miles of Deadwood within a year.
Philadelphia man Mr Williams reports meeting three prospectors living in an abandoned wolf cave high in a Colorado ravine. They mined rockers for $30 to $70 daily, stored hundreds of buckskin bags of coarse gold, and planned to take out a million apiece while aiming to expand with machines. They showed him coarse nuggets and described another cave near their mine.
The men claimed a new mineshaft yielded a living cave they walled up for shelter. They warned a visitor to keep silent and blindfolded him as they led him near his camp, noting he was the first outsider seen since the claim began. Mr. Williams could not relocate the cave though he knows the general area.
A few bound copies of the compiled laws of Wyoming can be obtained from the LEADER office. Price five dollars, mailed postpaid for five fifty. Remit by P O money order or registered letter. Contains Wyoming Territory laws plus the Declaration of Independence and various U S treaties and land laws.
Corrected weekly by Whipple and Hay, wholesale and retail grocers and commission merchants. Grain prices include States Corn and Oats per hundred pounds, and various breadstuff costs. Provisions list items such as potatoes, cheese, butter, lard, bacon, hams, pork, apples, case goods, canned fruits, jellies, and dried fruits with unit prices and ranges. Tea and coffee sections noted at end.
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