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    IT is not long since we stated that a party had contracted to lay a mile a day of the U. P. R. R. track for 150 miles, forfeiting $40,000 if he failed to do it. There has just been an excursion train over the road and the Omaha Republican says:

    "Eight months ago, but four or five miles of track had been laid down, and no machine shops or other buildings had been erected.--To-day 64 miles of track is in running order--substantial machine shops and depots have been erected at Omaha and the line is progressing at the rate of one mile in every twenty-four hours!

    It will be at Ft. Kearney before the leaves fall again, and ere the snow birds come the second time, at Julesburg. Perhaps the close of the war made no difference with things on the Plains and in the West; perhaps it was no reason for Colorado's adopting state government, and perhaps it was; at least we think so.

    DENVER NEWS.--Lt. A. C. Dutcher, 5th U. S. Vols., shot some time ago in the night by some unknown person, died Sunday night. A coach came in from the the Smoky Hill Monday morning bringing Gen. Brewster to settle up the affairs of his company. He says the new company are getting their stations, coaches, etc., into shape as fast as possible, and that they will not commence running regularly, until everything is completely prepared. About half way out the General and his party of twenty met about 100 Sioux Indians who showed him a letter from Major Wynkoop, dated April 9, from which it appeared that Wynkoop had persuaded this band to withdraw from the Dog Cheyennes and go to Ft. Laramie to the great Sioux Treaty.--It would seem that we have more peace and quiet under Wynkoop's administration on the Plains than were usual in the days of Chivington. A surveying party went down from Denver to locate the road on two or three cut-offs. All from the News.

Source:

Unknown, "Local Matters," Daily Mining Journal, Black Hawk City, Gilpin County, Colorado, Thursday, 26 April, 1866, p. 4.