Cheyenne Building Boom Rumors of Season Contracts
The city plans 300000 for Union Pacific shops and 500000 for machinery, plus a 68000 viaduct and 5000 to 6000 for a Hose house. Additional projects include a 25000 church, 50000 sewerage work, 10000 to 15000 for a storage reservoir, and 5090 for a Crow Creek subway. A Sun reporter lists numerous cottages and houses by Keefe Riner Interior Co and others in Cheyenne, with total season building costs about 1073000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Alert
Crow Creek
Methodist Church
Fort Russell
Cheyenne
Sun
Messrs
Keefe and
Riner
Interior
Interior Heights
J. W. Whetsue
Portland
Oregon
Ed. York
C. W. Bradley
J. S. Matthews
Priceefe
Evans
Twenty-first Street
Frank Stanley
Eighteenth
M. Marks
Evans Street
Keefe
A. W. Bradley
Cemetery Hill
Jennie Conway
Hotel Vendome
Central Avenue
A. Underwood
Con
J. A. England
Cheyenne Steam Laundry
Baby saved from Mount Davidson avalanche tale survives
A Virginia City Enterprise report recalls two 1867 and 1875 snowslides on Mount Davidson above Hale Norcross works. A child buried under a stove survived after rescuers heard faint cries and dug through four feet of snow to reach the stove and free the youngster. The piece notes the child would be about fourteen years old today if alive.
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Mount Davidson
Richard Northey
Hale & Norcross
Virginia City Enterprise
American Millionaires and the Limits of Wealth Worship
The piece argues that money and its vast aggregates in the New World reflect more than personal desire. they symbolize power and influence. It contends Europeans view wealth differently, with admiration waning in many places, while Britain tolerates wealth as useful, yet moral questions remain about the social obligations of the rich.
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New World
Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Austria
England
Belial
Jay Gould
Cheyenne Hosts Visitors With City Tour and Evening Meeting
Excursionists arrived in Cheyenne on a sunny day to tours of the Capitol, Camp Carlin, Fort Russell, railroad shops, and the city’s new additions. An evening opera house gathering featured Mayor Riner and speakers Col. York Brady Judge O Connor. wealth seekers from Omaha, Denver, Minneapolis explored investment prospects as sales crowded toward sizable sums.
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Capitol
Camp Carlin
Fort Russell
Cheyenne
Opera House
J. R. Burton
Col. Burton
Riner
Col. Barton
York
West
Brady
Colonel Brady
Judge O'Connor
Omaha
Denver
Minneapolis
Bridges
Interior Heights
Meaars
Real Estate Trades Update From Local Firm
The firm reports several closings including A D Kelley with William H Brien for a fifth interest in part of section one at 3000. Theodore Menges sells 18 Minnehaha Addition lots for 1800. J G Taylor trustee to C P Webster transfers two blocks for 719.00. Hicks sells five lots in block 41 to Louis Ehrich. Bresnehan sells two acres for 10000. Baker sells two lots on Twenty fourth Street for 1700. Stanley sells three Capitol avenue lots at 75 per front foot totaling 5000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.D. Kelley
William H. Brien
Theodore Menges
Minnehaha Addition
C. P. Webster
T. B. Hicks
Louis R. Ehrich
el Paso
Texas
L.R. Bresnehan
Twenty-fourth Street
Mr. Baker
G. W. Stanley
Capitol Avenue
Ready for Residences In Interior Heights Addition
The Interior Land and Immigration company ends city contracts for water mains and streetcar lines to Interior Heights. Property on the South Side is expected to rise in value as homes for shop workers appear near Union Pacific machine shops. The area features natural drainage, sanitary streets, and a gentle grade with views over the surrounding countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interior Land and Immigration Company
Interior Heights
Union Pacific
Interior Company
Beet Sugar Prospects in Wyoming and Nebraska Factory
The article notes a beet sugar factory to be built in Grand Island Nebraska, with machinery arrived in New Orleans from Germany. It reports two tons of beet seed shipped from Hamburg on the same ship, some for Washington agriculture and urges Wyoming farmers to test the seed in local soil. It predicts sugar beets will become a major Wyoming product due to soil and climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Island
Nebraska
New Orleans
Germany
Hamburg
Agriculture Department
Washington
Wyoming
New Union Pacific Extension Proposed in Colorado and New Mexico
A Union Pacific representative left for Golden to file for a right of way for extending the Morrison branch through Bear Creek canon to Mount Evans. If approved, construction could start immediately, with Mount Evans as the terminus offering views of Gray's and Pike's peaks and access to a top Colorado summit.
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Denver Republican
Union Pacific
Golden
Morrison
Bear Creek Canon
Mount Evans
Canon
Wagon Road
Boulder
Colorado
Gray's
Pike's Peaks
Union Pacific Forms Vast Denver and Gulf Railway Constellation
Articles of consolidation filed in Santa Fe outline the Union Pacific Denver and Gulf railway absorbing Wyoming Colorado New Mexico and Texas lines. The charter plans a line from Trinidad to Las Vegas via Longs Canon with surveys toward Las Vegas and grading toward Maxwell’s. A sea line west across the Taos range is proposed.
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Union Pacific
New Mexico
Santa Fe
N. M
Union Pacific and
Denver and Fort Worth Company
Wyoming
Colorado
Texas
Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway
Trinidad
Las Vegas
Long's
Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railroad Under Abt System
The Manitou Colorado line to Pike’s Peak summit is a long rack railroad for pleasure travel. It aims to finish by June to capitalize on the season. Construction is under the Abt system with W Hildenbrand supervising as American representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroad Gazette
Manitou and
Pike’s Peak
Maniton
Colo
Pike's Peak
W. Hildenbrand
Abt
Montana Coal and Iron Firm Forms in New York
The Montana Coal and Iron Company has been organized in New York with $2,000,000 capital. It controls Bear Creek coal fields south of Billings with $50,000 invested. Stockholders plan railroad construction from Billings to Cooke City and south toward tapping the Chicago and Northwestern system expanding into Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Coal and Iron Company
New York
Bear Creek
Billings
Cooke City
Chicago and Northwestern
Wyoming
Rawlins Election Results With Rasmussen Ahead In Mayor Race
The Sun reports Rawlins voters chose Rasmussen Democrat for mayor with 410 votes over Davis Republican 156. In council races Tierney Democrat led 354 to Paulson Republican 10. A total of 567 votes were cast, about half of the city's population.
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the Sun
Rawlins
Rasmussen
Davis
Tierney
Paulson
Manville Agricultural Fair and Stock Association Formed
Converse County fair organizers create a corporation for a Manville grounds to exhibit livestock, agriculture, minerals and machinery. Incorporators include John A. Sheffer C E Meader W C Gregory J A Monargan B I Shipley and others. incorporation filed with the territorial secretary.
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Converse County Fair Company
Manville
Territorial
Spring Stock At S Bon's Cheyenne Shoe House
The mammoth pioneer shoe house of S Bon's receives the largest best selected stock of boots shoes and slippers for men women and children shipped to Cheyenne. New styles from leading American manufacturers. All goods warranted and offered at lower prices than rivals. Bon 315 West Sixteenth Street. Nine hours without wage reduction granted to 2260 marble workers in Shusette factories.
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Mammoth Pioneer Shoe House
S. Bon's
Cheyenne
America
Sixteenth Street
Shusette
Weston County created with three commissioners named
Governor Warren appointed Ralph A. Weston Henry C. Hensel and George Purmoty as Weston county commissioners after 300 electors applied under law. The Newcastle businessmen will manage the new county’s elections and interests with fidelity and discretion as Weston rapidly grows.
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Warren
Ralph A. Weston
Henry C. Hensel
George Purmoty
Weston
Newcastle
Executive clemency grants pardons in Wyoming cases
John Gehm, convicted of grand larceny in Laramie county for stealing a saddle, receives a pardon after a 13 month Joliet sentence, escape during jail break, recapture, and 23 extra months. On good conduct and first offense, pardon granted at request of local officials. Chas. D Cameron, jailed for selling an estray horse and already released, is also pardoned on similar grounds.
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John Gehm
Laramie
Joliet
Our
McGinnis
Campbell
Gibson Clark
L. Kabis
Chas. D Cameron
C. M. White
Corn
Jessie Knight
A Normal School Proposed for Cheyenne
Prof Sanders of Fort Scott Kansas visits Cheyenne to establish a collegiate normal institution. If community interest grows, Cheyenne may host a premier western college. Offers of aid include Theodore Menges forty acres Governor Warren ten acres and Mr Snyder five acres with a fuller outline promised tomorrow.
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Sanders
Fort Scott
Kas
Cheyenne
Theodore Menges
Warren
Snyder
Cheyenne and Denver linked in real estate boom and growth
The Denver Mews praises Cheyenne as in a real estate boom of monster proportions with rapid value gains drawing investors from Denver Omaha and Kansas. It predicts Wyoming statehood will spur development of resources and industry benefiting Cheyenne and Denver alike, stressing mutual growth and rivalry fading.
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Denver
Cheyenne
Omaha
Kansas
Wyoming
Colorado
A Happy Cattle Man from Sweetwater Sells Beef
W A Johnson of Sweetwater county traveled to Nebraska last fall and winter with cattle on his farm there. He reports a handsome profit selling beeves at 60 dollars per head after buying at 16 to 20 dollars and feeding costs minimal. He is very satisfied with the recent cattle market rise.
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W. A. Johnson
Sweetwater County
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Sas
Nesbraskd
Vance
Mr. Johnson
Majestic Arrives in York After Maiden Queenstown Passage
The steamer Majestic reached York on Wednesday completing the maiden voyage from Queenstown in six days ten hours and minutes.
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Majestic
York
Queenstown
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Sewist
Nevada
Inter Ocean
Normandie
Seventeenth and
Ferguson Streets
Iowa Senate
Prospect
Pike Peak’s Cogway
Weston County
Rocky Mountain
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