| Show g E GNOWS WS R E M INIS C EN T Railroad Builder and Pioneer Tells fells Something of the thc Founding Of or Cheyenne CITY WAS ONCE A GRAVEYARD Located on the thc Resting Heslin Place of or Three H Mormons Who Were ere Killed Hilled lip liy II Indians I The following to Ing story clipped cUppett tram front the tho Denver P 1 Post nt Is 19 credited I to General M 1 Dodge railroad mil builder and pioneer who odor lapses Into a II reminiscent stood mood and tells things that arc Ale really Interesting Dodge Is now chairman ch of ot tho the directorate of oC the tho Colorado S Southern railway system coil hat has been visiting Denver und and vicinity for tor the past week A duty day tin or two ngo ho he visited visit visited ed tho time scene of at lilt his great triumph Wyoming where he net met mile nl greatest greAte t engineering In while constructing time the Union Unton rood joud K 1 11 H and other railroad were lele anxious that the vet ot enin he IB Is now nt 73 years of at age should see pee the changes that had been beell madu In hr the tho Union Pacific 1 In I m t Wyoming such auch ns as tho the Hh hill cutoff and other great grent works which altogether cost coit the limo railroad one of or the tho sum slim needed 1 to build lie tho line from tram Omaha to Ogden There l la is hardly a II t foot toot of ot ground r in III southern unknown to 10 Gen General eral Dodge and amid he examined time the Im Improvements In the road with great Ire t In Interest Interest Inv terest crest and pointed out to time the Denver railroad men who accompanied him tho the spots where Incidents haul had happened to the tho pioneer builders who had dolled defied Indians and nature In III Inlaying inlaying laying tho the bands of steel across neross tho the continent Colorado owes 0 8 General Dodge consid considerable arable erable ern hIe In many ways lOS It was lna he ho who with Ith x John Evans vanH amid others oth ra built hullt the tha Denver Demer Pacific new nt the time the line from Denver I eller lo to Cheyenne lion r en tho the people of ot Denver and Colorado feared they thc would bo be rut cut cutoff tiff off from nil all railroad connection Time Tho Union Tactile surveyors limed hUll decided upon Wyoming rather than Colorado as ns the time most transcontinental route and antl the tho situation sl appeared to be bo boUp beUp Up Cheyenne Cheynne Down 1 own Denver DenI We Va tried to 10 push the road rand through this thin state mate mid General Dodge reminiscently but the I lord Lard ord appeared to have willed swilled otherwise mil and wo we e took look limo tho toute roue through tho the moun mountains mountains which Ho Ito had apparently select selected ed e As It was wan wo we gave gao Governor I e all 1111 tho the assistance we could In III building his lilt line time tram from Cheyenne to Denver Dell r It wile certainly to our interests to do so BO That Willi long bug before tho lie Kansas 1 Pan lie Ile had hn d entered or nr even ven thought mum of ot en entering trying Denver Dener and mid It was something ofa of ofa a I necessity for tor this city nt at that time I N S o IN Cheyenne Yes 1111 1 i remember Choy critic cane well from Its lis inception In fact t cl UH its location was vas determined by ti b three dead Sounds peculiar oh butt but that wits Klin tho mho of It We hail had pushed through from Bla Blaney ney ne Net Neb with the thc usual fol lowing population and the military de dU detachment der which was wan with us tea for tor our A Mormon Mommon train rain was ahead going lawn down Cheyenne past 1111 a 1 tard Crow rOW rr creek ek When wilen a n baud of fit appeared tune ana attacked them the train m imi trying to steal horses homos and provisions pro proVisions Visions and hoping to get gel away n 0 E our party came up The Thu Mormons naturally objected to 10 such summary seizure and nn l n 1 fight followed In which three Mormons were killed A graveyard grave graveyard yard WM hastily the Mor Alor Mormons mans mons wore Interred and I II 11 round around that little tho capital ot oi Wyoming was wan built lilt It was W 8 for tor me lOa to decide on the east eul eastern eastern ern bate base of ot operations In that divi division clan sion and I 1 fixed axed on Cheyenne and it has been heon such uch ever since sluice Incidentally n e I that mormon t killing clan also deeded decided the tho location of ot Port 1 rt A I 1 n Russell BH as General hind hall said MId that wherever I selected nn an eastern base there would be a 11 military post poet for tor that section of or the country Till Tiff That was vat on July Jul 4 1661 suit and n great day It was n a Fourth of ot July JUI celebration on the open plains but we had one and a good ono one Gen Oen General General eral John A nn after whom na s a Wyo a won WOM named wa thoro and find olio also General Auger each ench with a afine amine fine mine staff and we had the reading of tho the Declaration of Independence Inel e ndell and speeches to as motley end and com complex complex plex ft II crowd liB as B ever celebrated tho the Fourth In the good old style styleA A city of f souls quickly sprang up at lit Cheyenne and for tor n II time Urns that was 18 the tho high water mark but It has hIlS sinco passed panted those thoe tho e figures All time the riffraff ruff of oC the time Mississippi lIIS l II and Mg river valleys was with W Ih u us gam bad men camp cutup a laugh lot an ns you OU may Imagine 80 So hind bad became the people that I ordered the the tho military m lIt cry to 10 Ii establish a n line lIue with liU hili soldiers ho swept them u tt tit lC tho city elt Hut lut they accompanied ua 1111 to tory lor Claim where we eve 0 met the Pacific roud road builders Am o the time west vest westA vestA A COU THY That Willi certainly a II great grant country Many a tall Many llIn men hao told mote more eloquently than lhnn 1 Comm can time tho immense amount of oC Home gnome oil on the Urn plains at nt that Hint time lillie the hundreds of oC thousands of ot buffalo the tho antelope and on the tho deer der We Wo never nAver wanted I for Cor fresh meal Lilt but n ft yearning earn I HIT for tor roost roast beef beet nH nil raised and cooked In Inthe Inthe the time east eORt often orten overcame O us liS Buffalo ment did 1111 not appeal when what wo we could get antelope and enlson venison and when ave Ie e II I r I 0 a Ih time plains found II elk lit tn in we w ee tl i Il II Il Winter amid ami summer sinner we worked at t I t I that road and ami our success Huel has ha been ell I r I 11 I handed hiu dul I f down to posterity I certainly T eel foel ft a 1 pride when ulten hen I think of ot what hat wo we i i l lured dured B il time the timeo hardship we wo en II i winter and rammer we worked mt bore o were ere times In ht the till i of ot Ulan When was teas I used on tl I II IO II 0 dirt as A on Ohm rock rOdt so 80 hard was wn the tha h Hi froien trolen j Till Tho Ih rapidity with stint which the time rood road I I S r I I was wan built numbed many assertions t It Il was not nol properly built Tho The wont orl I done In the lie past three r It years yearn by hY th the Union e in repairs and M Im Improve I j I I 1 ments meats In is n a refutation of that Tho rho grades grade of the road roar have havo be been n reduced to th Iho the maximum of ot 43 3 feet n a 1 1 Ill mile the curvature linn has h II been boen decreased m I pad and the HIP line lino hiss haw hn been shortened 57 n mites This cost com tho limn company mme if Ii ia 1 of ot the tho sum rum expended In the construction of the tho entire road roud I I r alb I J r 1 |
