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.
South Ptik, hI( should certainly mak thi, excursioD
from Georgetown. Central City,li(d its neighbor
hood are much less interesting to the mere pleasure
traveler.
That town, with four or five thousand inhabitants
is crowded into a narrow gulch rather than a valley,
torn with floods and dirty with the debris of mills
and mines that spread themselves over everything.
Scattered about in Boulder district, on the Snake,
over on the Upper Arkansas, up among the gulches
of the South Park hills, are a few more quartz mills,
some in operation and others not; but the principal
business of quartz mining is done in the sections I
have named, in Gelpin and Clear Creek counties.
Mill City, Empire, and Idaho are villages in this
section, with their mines and mills, doing a little
something, struggling to prove their capacity, but
hardly in a single case making money; partly because of the poverty of the ore, but chiefly because
it is refractory, and will not yield up its possessions
to any known or reasonably cheap process. Time,
patience, and cheaper labor wvill bring good results
out of many of these investnlelnts, but others will
have to go to swell the great number of failures that
stand confessed all over this, as all over every other
mining country.
The other form of mining, known as gulch n~i;f;i,t
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