Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

CIHAPTER XV.
COLORADO'S MINING RESOURCES.
As a mining country Colorado dates from 1.858.
III the summer of that year a few prospecters from
Kansas and Georgia explored the country up the
Arkntsas river. When more than two hundred
miiles from the nmountains they discovered in small
quantities loose gold on some of the bars of the
stream, increasing as they followed up the river.
They explored the country around Pike's Peak, and
found in some places gold in paying quantities;
going northward, along the base of the mountains,
finding the precious metal in different places, as far
as the mouth of Cherry Creek, where Denver now
is. Here they found it in larger quantity and of
fi)e quality. These parties, returning in the'fall,
gave publicity to their discoveries. Mole bills mag —
nified into gold mountains. The excitemetlt spread
rapidly over the country, and the next season a large
emigration of Pike's Peadkers moved in that direction.
Soon other rich developments were made, the excitement increased, and emigration moved rapidly
towards the new Eldorado of the West. From that
time to the present mining has been prosecuted with
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