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Laramie City—the enterprising
county seat of Laramie county, has wonder-
fully improved within the last few years.
It has a population of 4,000, and is regu-
larly laid out, at right angles with the
road. A stream of clear, cold water,
which rises in aspring a few miles to the
eastward, runs through the principal
streets; the buildings are small and mestly
of wood with a few substantial structures
of stone. The spirit of improvement is
manifested, on every hand, which has re-
cently completed numerous stores, hotels,
banks, churches, schools, dwellings, and
other buildings, including a court-house
and jail. Trees line many of the streets,
and present a cheerful and home-like ap-
pearance; in fact,most of the Laramie
residents are here to stay, and are deter-
mined to make it the “Boss” city of the
Plains.

Laramie was many years after the com-
pletion of the road, a regular eating sta-
tion for passenger trains from the East and
West. ‘The meals were served in the com-
pany’s large and commodious hotel—in
front of which the cars stop—but cir-
cumstances made it necessary to establish
the eating house farther to the northward,
and it is now at Rock Creek, 51 miles dis-
tant. The Sentinel, a daily and weekly
paper, is pubiished here.

Rotuine Mui—During the year of
1874, the Railroad Company erected a roll-
ing mill at this place, at a cost of $127,
500. It is situated to the right of the road
a short distance north of the station. The
mill is in operation night and day, re-roll-
ing old rails and other heavy work.

The company’s division shops are also
located here. They are of stone obtained
from Rock Creek, 50 miles distant to the
northward. The round-house contains 20
stalls. The machine shop is used for gen-
eral repairing, and contains all the neces-
sary machinery of a first-class shop.

The railroad was completed to this point
June 18th, 1868, and for some months
Laramie was known as the “end of the
track,” which at that time meant that it
was not only the place from which all
eae and supplies for the West were
hauled on wagons—but it was the center
for all the gamblers, roughs and abomina-
bse which followed the building of the
road.

Directly to the east of this place can be
seen the Cheyenne Pass wagon road—the
old emigrant route—which crosses the

plain and river half a mile below the
city, running northwest to the base of the |
mountains, parallel with the railroad.

Woman Jury—Laramie was the first
place in America—or in the world even—
where a female jury was empaneled.
Their first case was that of a Western des-
perado, and there was no flinching from
duty on the part of the “weaker sex.”

Before bringing in their verdict, they in-
voked the divine guidance—while their
nurses calmed the rising generation by
singing,

“Nice little baby, don't get in a fury,

*Cause mamma’s gone to sit on the jury.”

“TRICKS THAT ARE VAIN ’’—Curious
passengers will note from this city west
the railroad laborers—section hands—are
all CHINAMEN; they are said to be very
reliable; and, as they don’t drink whisky,
the saloons along the line are getting al-
most as scarce asthe grasshoppers and
mice. The saloon-men are all “anti-
Chinese.”

Laramig Pirarys—comprise a belt of
fine grazing lands about 25 miles
wide by 60 long, and is considered one of
the best locations for stock-raising in this
section of the country.

The remarks made about the grazing
lands elsewhere will well apply to this sec-
tion. Beef can be raised and fattened on
these plains at an expense not exceeding
the cost of such cattle in Texas, where, as
every one knows, they raise themselves
and form the larger half of the population.
The peculiar feature of these grasses are
similar to those already described. The
plains are higher, and frost makes its ap-
pearance earlier in the fall, but the grass
is cured by the summer sun before its ar-
rival, so that the cold weather does not in-
jure it. We need only to mention the
well-known fact that thousands of buffalo
roamed over these plains, furnishing the
Indians with unlimited quantities of beef,
before the white man drove them away, to
convince any one that the laudations of
this, as a grazing country, are not exagger-
ated or wild ideas of enthusiasts, but sim-
ple facts, substantiated by past and present
experience.

Stock-raising is now almost the only in-
dustry noticeable, and a great many thou-
sand tend of cattle, sheep and horses can
be seen in almost any direction. It is
computed that there are at this time over
90,000 head of cattle, 85,000 head ot
sheep, and 3,000 horses and mules