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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1890
Page
13
A Pacific Short Line rep says the electric line will reach Wyoming by January and Ogden in two years. He notes the firm plans an independent stance to win through traffic by selling traffic privileges to the highest bidder.
The Rio Grande Western railway nears full broad gauge from Grand Junction to Ogden with rails replaced and the third rail of heavy steel. General Manager Dodge notes the work required canyon cutting and rock removal and a May 1 readiness for broad gauge trains though none are planned yet due to lacking a hoist at Grand Junction.
A contract signed in Omaha binds the Rock Island and Milwaukee to run solid trains into the city within thirty days. Presidents Cable and Miller and Union Pacific GM Holcomb arrange for trackage rights at the Union Pacific depot and joint use of the Gilmore station track. The plan includes a Gilmore to Lincoln link and onward rail to Beatrice, connecting Rock Island with the Denver system.
A unique railroad roadbed is built across a ravine in Sonoms County near the coast. Timber and ties lie on stumps carved level with hillside, spanning a ravine between Clipper mills and Stuart Point. Two redwood trunks stand side by side, cut seventy-five feet above the creek bed, forming a natural bridge regarded as a California wonder.
Electricity shows promise to replace oil in passenger car lighting as railways pursue faster schedules. Chicago hosts a Burlington plan for a Sunday Denver service cutting the Chicago to Denver time by seven hours, inciting rate battles among rivals.
The discussion notes the route’s long familiarity among engineers and its suitability for building a railroad. Asa Whitney asserts the path is the easiest to construct and operate, crossing the divide through the South Pass. The text suggests the route was discovered by Indians and later known to pioneers and engineers.
Union Pacific to build several hundred thousand dollars worth of rolling stock including 100 locomotives, 1000 box cars, 400 stock cars, 650 coal cars, 450 furniture cars, 300 fruit cars, 60 cabooses, six chair cars and six baggage cars. Orders allocated among about six eastern shops to speed delivery.
H. M. McCartney of the Union Pacific engineering department says the Milford to Pioche line is advancing with 2,000 workers on 115 miles of the 145 mile project. Rails for about twenty miles are stacked at Milford and trains may run to Pioche by December 1.
The Union Pacific hospital in Denver houses about fifty inmates in varying physical conditions. The facility operates smoothly with occasional arrivals and discharges, maintaining a steady population. City railroad offices supply reading material to occupy inmates and aid their attention beyond their disabilities.
Last Monday John L. Larimer led the first outfit to commence grading on the one hundred mile Buffalo extension contract awarded to Kilpatrick Bros. & Collins. Six other outfits have arrived for front work, with initial grading found best suited to the Belle Fourche area sixty to eighty miles northwest of Newcastle.
Chief Engineer Bogue urges Union Pacific to build from Portland across the Columbia to Vancouver and Seattle with five feeders. Proposes Tacoma to Olympia and Port Angeles extensions, predicts operation within fifteen months. Details depots at Tacoma Seattle Olympia and related points. Holcomb travels to Boston as meeting adjourns.
Superintendent Phelan Russell Thorp and Stock Agent Cox plan a trip to Buffalo next week to set up a freight line. Donald Miller once Cheyenne city engineer is in Newcastle and works for the water works company. Hon R M Galbraith and family arrive from Rawlins to live here. he will run a walking-beam drill for Kilpatrick Bros. & Collins this summer.
The sub committee of the joint congressional committee on Immigration continued its inquiry in New York. T. & McGuire of the Knights of Columbus was examined. He said the contract labor law fails due to district attorney neglect, and immigration is pushed by steamship lines through misrepresentation. He swore padrone systems operate in New York with padrone getting Italian immigrants public works jobs for pay while charging for placement.
The week sees rain renewing assets and a rising mood in Cheyenne real estate as outside capitalists from Peoria invest. The Cremer Arnold Denmeyer group buys 560 acres near the Denver Pacific track for 40000 and 40 acres for 12000, planning surveys and home builder amenities, with German Fire Insurance plans to base operations here and loan capital locally. The Interior Land and Immigration firm promotes lots, blocks to buyers nationwide, and a Wednesday meeting of Cheyenne dealers to form a mutual advancement exchange.
The note extols Cheyenne as a growing city after rain, welcoming visitors and noting two key assets. It claims Cheyenne could reach 40,000 residents in five years due to its central railway hub status and abundant bessemer iron ore fields.
Sunday afternoon at lakes Mr. Millard of Turnbull's furniture and Mr. Smith from Stock Journal hunted ducks. Millard slipped while pursuing ducks and, with his hand over the gun muzzle, the double discharge struck him. He was taken to his boarding house and then to the county hospital, where amputation was performed. his mother in Denver is en route.
SuN reporter learns from John F Ringler arriving from a gas field thirty six miles south of Rawlins that gas is abundant in crevices already yielding flames three to four feet high. The coal measures oil and gas region covers about two hundred square miles with coal eight to twenty feet thick and veins. Ground is undulating with buttes and mountains nearby and rapid filings show new ground is claimed as development spurs hope for a valuable western resource.
The signal office reports 2.49 inches of rain in the last ten days surpassing most Aprils except 1883 and 1885. Observer Joan H Cray notes the period as notably wet. The government plans to enlist Indians into the regular army, starting with two companies and expanding if successful.
The Sun reports plans for new railroad shops at Cheyenne costing five to six million dollars. The complex will include paint, car, wood shops, a boiler house, ash pits, and expanded yards employing hundreds. A large wheel foundry and blast furnace are planned with iron works to follow, potentially creating about a thousand new jobs and several ancillary industries.
Military authority states Fort Russell will house twenty companies under a War Department policy to concentrate troops at railroad hubs and central points. The expansion will render Fort Russell one of the largest posts and requires about $200,000 more in government appropriations for new buildings.
Mary Lee wife of Lieutenant James H. Frier of the Seventeenth United States infantry and niece of Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Ofley died at St Luke's Hospital in St Louis Missouri on Saturday April 18 1890.
Dr Julius A Schuelke killed W Sullivan a local druggist after a quarrel at E B Clevelands saloon and W H Schoo tried to intervene Sullivan a former chief clerk under Indian Agent Jones and new drug partner with Patten is described as well liked. Schuelke was arrested and jailed for preliminary hearing.
A committee of Union Pacific trainmen met Vice President Holcomb in Omaha and conferred with general managers in Cheyenne. Forty conductors from all divisions attended and presented requests for pay and mileage equalization, classification reforms, and better conductor workload balance. Three meetings were held and the conductors’ requests were substantially met.
Bonanza residents and Big Horn basin folk gear up for Col. Pickett’s May visit. A public dinner at Ganley’s grave and a dancing pavilion are planned with top music and broad attendance expected from distant districts to make the event the most enjoyable public affair in the Big Horn basin.
Judge Carroll prepares a collected volume of many old and new poems written for this issue. The Sun office has begun publication as readers anticipate favorites in book form and celebrate the feature with pleasure.
A poem fragment describing St Peter at heaven's gate granting admission. A maiden pleads for entry and asserts she is merely a teen. The guardian cat proclaims approval, and the gate opens. Detroit Free Press.
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