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.

BEYOND THE WEST.
vtLying success. Like rich mining countries every
where, it has been the scene of extravagant hopes,
a'id also the scene of extravagant disappointments.
M ny7 have realized all or more than their best
hopes, while others, and far the larger number, have
been wonderfully disappointed. The country, however, has now lived through her most trying and
precarious early existence. When wild speculation
ruled supreme, everybody lived, or desired to do so,
on their wits, instead of honest labor, to make their
"pile," no matter how ruled the day.
"Wherever God erects a house of prayer
The devil always holds a chapel there,
And'twill be found upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation."
The people here are very much mixed. All tihe
States, and every important place in them are represented, and all are engaged( in the same absorbi),g
subject of conversation. Thie seat of empire, iii
traveling to this country, changed its base from
soul to money-getting. Gold before breakfast, tt
breakfast and after breakfast, together witli a good
show of blossom rock all day and specimens in the
evening. I don't care if I do; I will take mine
clear; I will have sugar inl mine. Mountain mining
life, soon rubs off the veneering of good home ilflu
ences, and we see of what materiMl menii are male.
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