Identifier: handbookofwyomi00stra (find matches)
Title: The hand-book of Wyoming and guide to the Black Hills and Big Horn regions
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Strahorn, Robert E. (Robert Edmund), 1852-1944
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Publisher: Cheyenne, (Chicago, Knight & Leonard, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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reen river, here a clear, swift streamaveraging seventy-five yards in width. Green River City is thecounty seat of Sweetwater county, contains 600 inhabitants, ele-gant court-house and other public buildings, and is well suppliedwith extensive business houses, representing every line. It is thesouthern terminus of the Sweetwater daily stage line, and haswell-founded aspirations for the travel and business of parties enroute to the Big Horn and Wind River gold regions. The capablepostmaster of Green River, Judge S. I. Fields, is one of the oldestsettlers, and is regarded as the Father of the Town, in that hehas extensive land interests and directs his best energies towardbuilding it up. He has experimented quite extensively in thecultivation of the soil in the suburbs of the town, and has estab-lished the fact that all of the hardy grains and vegetables flourishwhen irrigated. Green River City is the western end of one ofthe Union Pacific divisions, has one of the companys large repair
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COUNTIES, CITIES, MILITARY POSTS, ETC. 151 shops and round-house, and other extensive railroad buildings.The Daily Press is published here every afternoon by Judge C.W. Holden, and is a sprightly twenty-column paper, having forits field the largest and perhaps richest county in the Territory.See engraving of Green River on another page. Evanston.—Evanston is the county seat of Uintah county,and is located in Bear River valley, in the extreme western partof the Territory. It contains 1,200 inhabitants, is built largelyof brick and stone and boasts as fine churches, schools and pub-lic buildings as any of the Wyoming cities. The lumber, coaland charcoal interests, together with stock-growing, are the solidfoundations of Evanstons prosperity. It is the designated ship-ping point for a large proportion of the Montana cattle wrhichfind a southern market every season. To the north for a distanceof 100 miles, extending into Utah and Idaho, is a fine agricul-tural and grazing country, which

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