Louis, but there is no apparent reason
why it could not be made advantage
ous for the merchants south to pur
chase in Cheyenne. Next year tfip
trade of the southern mines of Colo
rado will bo greatly increased, an 3
with the railway completed to Den
ver, that trs-.de would be secured. The
building of the road alone will throw
many thousand# of doHara into this
city, and, by assisting in that work,
our business men would bo adding to
their present business, as well as to
the permanency of the city. It should
bo rembered that the Eastern Division
is making their greatest possible en
deavors to cut out Cheyenne in this
matter,and owing to that competition,
it is necessary that Cheyenne give
sonic aid to an enterprise which will
make quick and ample returns for
the investment. Let there be a gen
eral attendance of bnsinesmen nt the
meeting to-morrow night, and if any
thing can be done to start the Denver
Pacific Railway, let it be done nt once.
Western Itgnw,
The Virginia Trespass says the
cars on the western end of the
Union Pacific Railroad will be
within sixty miles of Salt Lake next
fall.
The Desert Ncics says that on the
morning of the 31st of March one of
the City Creek ditches burst and
flooded a portion of the city. Tho
water would have done serious dam
age but for prompt action on the part
of a few men,. A man gapping
wood in Emigration Kfi-UyAH. hft4 his
thumb bitten by a muskrat. The rat
immediately died—the man filled
him.
