In August, the city government was formed, H. M. Hook being chosen mayor.
On September nineteenth, the first issue of the Cheyenne Evening Leader was published.
September twenty-seventh, a meeting was held for the purpose of organizing a county to be called Laramie.
On October eighth, an election was held to vote for a representative to Congress, to elect county officers, and to locate the county-seat. It was decided that every citizen of the United States, who had been in the territory ten days, might vote. One thousand nine hundred votes were cast, and Cheyenne was declared the county-seat.
On October twenty-fifth, telegraphic communication with the East was opened.
November thirteenth, the first passenger train came through from Omaha, and one month later the track was laid to Fort Russell.
About July first of that year, a Mr. Post bought two lots in Cheyenne for six hundred dollars. He then went to Denver on business, stopped to stake out his claim in a coal mine, and returned to find that city real estate had become so inflated in his absence that he was enabled to sell a fractional part of his six hundred dollar lots for five thousand six hundred dollars.
CATTLE RANCHE IN NEBRASKA.