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.

COLORADO'S MINING RESOURCES.
There is a savage fascination in Rocky Mountain
lite, in its isolation, l'wlessness and danger.
The law of self-preservation is strong in the mountains. "Keep up your heart to-day, for to-morrow
you may die," is the motto of a true mountain man.
Sundays are as good as other days-no better.
First that which is natural, then that which is
spiritual." Miners and mountain men remember the
Sabbath day only to keep it jolly; few even would
send their cards to church, while they would not
go themselves. This results from the migratory
and unsettled character of the people away from
the restraining and humanizing influence of home
association. But she has lived through that uncertain era when "to be or not to be," was all unsolved
problem. The loose surface washings of uncertainty have run off with uncertain and unskilled labor,
and they are coming down to the "bed rock" of
stability-more permanent prosperity.
Central City, located in a narrow defile in the
mountains, unshapely and straggling as if built to
order and accidentally dropped between the close
mountains' while being conveyed to its destination,
is the center of mining. The most important developments have been made here, rich quartz leads were
early discovered, together with some rich gulch
mining, which gave the place at an early day! a large(
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