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So, from these humble beginnings, Cheyenne came 

 into existence, awoke, bestirred herself, became fired 

 with ambition, and made the summer of 1867 one 

 never to be forgotten in her boundaries. 



On July first of that year, the agent of the Union 

 Pacific Railroad erected in Cheyenne the first structure 

 belonging to that company. 



In August, the city government was formed, H. M. 

 Hook beino^ 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 Lara- 

 mie. 



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 froai 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 hun- 

 dred dollar lots for five thousand six hundred dollars. 



